Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. As exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the design and implementation of data-driven health surveillance, like digital contact tracing (DCT) apps, carry significant implications for socie…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Starting from the recognition of the limits of today’s common essentialist and axiological understandings of data and ethics, in this article we make the case for an ecosystemic understand…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. The economic logic of the attention economy is frequently used to critique and respond to the dangers of unfettered technological expansion, including nascent platforms and products powere…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Beginning in the 1990s, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) leveraged the 1980s’ American War on Drugs to improve and expand facial recognition technology (FRT) infra…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. This article documents the “context cultures” underpinning efforts to develop regulations for collecting and reporting data in a United States public database known as Open Payments. Open …
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Recent years have seen significant increases in online fraud. The fact that online fraud represents a major challenge to law enforcement due to its complexities and global impact has led t…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Mounting critique of the way AI is framed in mainstream media calls for less sensationalist coverage, be it jubilant or apocalyptic, and more attention to the concrete situations in which …
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Research on the digital economy has highlighted the assetization of data. This article argues for expanding existing research on data and datafication processes by focusing on how relation…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. The growing trend of collecting data about individuals to track past actions and infer future attitudes and behaviors has fueled popular and scholarly interest in the erosion of privacy. R…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Building on work which has shown the role of digital technologies in reframing environmental relations, this paper explores ethnographically how environmental data is reconfiguring the con…