Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Efforts to address algorithmic harms have gathered particular steam over the last few years. One area of proposed opportunity is the notion of an “algorithmic audit,” specifically an “intern…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Through a critical analysis of recent developments in the theory and practice of data science, including nascent feminist approaches to data collection and analysis, this commentary aims to …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Personal data are produced through our daily interactions with digital technologies like search engines, social media, and online shopping, and is often referred to as our “digital exhaust.”…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. Machine learning systems are making considerable inroads in society owing to their ability to recognize and predict patterns. However, the decision-making logic of some widely used machine l…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2022. With the surge in the number of data and datafied governance initiatives, arrangements, and practices across the globe, understanding various types of such initiatives, arrangements, and the…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. In recent years, universities have been urged to restructure and re-evaluate their ability to trace and monitor their students as the “smart campus” is being built upon datafication, while ne…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Poor air quality is a pressing global challenge contributing to adverse health impacts around the world. In the past decade, there has been a rapid proliferation of air quality information de…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. This article introduces the methodology of the ‘Ontology Explorer’, a semantic method and JavaScript-based open-source tool to analyse data models underpinning information systems. The Ontolo…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Smart cities are now an established context in which data and digital technologies shape urban politics. Despite increased scholarly focus on algorithmic governance, smart cities and their da…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Academic and public debates are increasingly concerned with the question whether and how algorithmic decision-making (ADM) may reinforce social inequality. Most previous research on this topi…