Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. The size and variation in both meaning-making and populations that characterize much contemporary text data demand research processes that support both discovery, interpretation and measureme…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. In this exploratory study, we examine political polarization regarding the online discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use data from Reddit to explore the differences in the topics emphasi…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. We examined the relationship between political affiliation, perceptual (percentage, slope) estimates, and subjective judgements of disease prevalence and mortality across three chart types. A…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022.
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022.
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. We have identified an emerging tool being used by the UK government across a range of public bodies in the service of public policy – the online targeted advertising infrastructure and the pr…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. In this study, we build on a recent social data scientific mapping of Danish environmentalist organizations and activists during the COVID-19 lockdown in order to sketch a distinct genre of d…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. This article examines discourses about mixed reality as a data-rich sensing technology – specifically, engaging with discourses of time as framed by developers, engineers and in corporate PR …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Some recent uses of artificial intelligence for (for example) facial recognition, evaluating resumes, and sorting photographs by subject matter have revealed troubling disparities in performa…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. The introduction of digital technologies in collective actions seems to have transformed the dynamics of movement organizing and enabled divergent forms of protest organizing. While some stud…