Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, July-September 2024. Organizations increasingly rely on digital technologies to perform tasks. To do so, they have to integrate data banks to make the data usable. We argue that there is a growing, academicall…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Following the release of large language models in the late 2010s, the backers of this new type of artificial intelligence (AI) publicly affirmed that the technology is controversial and harmfu…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Technology companies are often worth billions, but they still must make their money through advertising. The research literature on the value creation of data-driven platform companies often r…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Governments increasingly use algorithms to inform or supplant decision-making. Artificial Intelligence systems in particular are considered objective, consistent and efficient decision-makers,…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. During COVID-19, countless dashboards served as the central media for people to learn critical information about the pandemic. Varied actors, including news organizations, government agencies,…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Age verification is currently gaining traction among some western democracies as a means to restrict minors’ access to online pornography. In this article we consider the ramifications of appl…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. The rhetoric of an ‘AI arms race’ between the United States and China has become increasingly prominent over the past 5 years, despite warnings that it is unnecessarily polarising and undermin…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. This article analyses the operationalization of One Health in the context of data-intensive science in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Building on ethnographic field research and revisiting…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Trustworthy artificial intelligence (TAI) is trending high on the political agenda. However, what is actually implied when talking about TAI, and why it is so difficult to achieve, remains ins…