Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Healthcare provision, like many other sectors of society, is undergoing major changes due to the increased use of data-driven methods and technologies. This increased reliance on big data in …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. As natural language processing tools powered by big data become increasingly ubiquitous, questions of how to design, develop, and manage these tools and their impacts on diverse populations a…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Datafication of social life affects what society regards as knowledge. Jasanoff’s regimes of sight framework provides three ideal-type models of authorised knowing in environmental data pract…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. This special theme of Big Data & Society explores connections, relationships, and tensions that coalesce around data, power, and racial formation. This collection of articles and commenta…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Since 2020, many countries worldwide have deployed digital contact tracing programs that rely on a range of digital sensors in the city to locate and map the routes of viral spread. Many crit…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Growing interest is being directed to the health applications of so-called ‘passive data’ collected through wearables and sensors without active input by users. High promises are attached to …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. The administrative reform of the datafied public administration places great emphasis on the classification, control, and prediction of citizen behavior and therefore has the potential to sig…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. There is increasing criticism on the use of big data and algorithms in public governance. Studies revealed that algorithms may reinforce existing biases and defy scrutiny by public officials …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. There has been a surge of recent interest in sociocultural diversity in machine learning research. Currently, however, there is a gap between discussions of measures and benefits of diversity…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Digital organizations form part of the new wave of blockchain technologies, following Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. “Utopia of Abstraction” offers an analysis of the utopian promise o…