Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. The Trump Administration’s governance of COVID-19 racial health disparities data has become a key front in the viral war against the pandemic and racial health injustice. In this paper, I ana…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Digitization and datafication of public space have a significant impact on how cities are developed, governed, perceived and used. As technological developments are based upon political decis…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Big data enables researchers to closely follow the behavior of large groups of individuals by using high-frequency digital traces. However, these digital traces often lack context, and it is …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. How corporations surveil and influence consumers using big data tools is a major area of research and public debate. However, few studies explore it in relation to physicians in the USA, even…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. This commentary elaborates on the ideas and projects outlined in this special issue, from a specifically sociological perspective. Much recent work in sociology proposes ‘methods mashups’ of …
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. The technological solutions adopted during the current pandemic will have a lasting impact on our societies. Currently, COVID-19 health status certificates are being deployed around the world…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Social media commentary, satellite imagery and GPS data are a part of ‘alternative data’, that is, data that originate outside of the standard repertoire of market data but are considered use…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not to explain culture but to explicate it. That should cause us to rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we cont…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. Recent buzzes around big data, data science and artificial intelligence portray a data-driven future for healthcare. As a response, Europe’s key players have stimulated the use of big data te…
Big Data &Society, Volume 9, Issue 1, January-June 2022. In this paper, we examine the practice and promises of digital phenotyping. We build on work on the ‘data self’ to focus on a medical domain in which the value and nature of knowledge and rel…