Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Proponents of generative AI tools claim they will supplement, even replace, the work of cultural production. This raises questions about the politics of visibility: what kinds of stories do th…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. The paper explores the potential of big data analytics for researching anti-immigrant discourse. We emphasize contextualization as an essential element of research and follow a hybrid approach…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. How to participate in artificial intelligence otherwise? Put simply, when it comes to technological developments, participation is either understood as public debates with non-expert voices to…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. This commentary explores Brazil’s role in Latin American platform capitalism, integrating Ruy Mauro Marini’s theoretical framework with contemporary studies of platform capitalism. It examines…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Synthetic data are computer-generated data that mimic and substitute empirical observations without directly corresponding to real-world phenomena. Widely used in privacy protection, machine l…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. In addition to tapping data from users’ behavioral surplus, by drawing on generative adversarial networks, data for artificial intelligence is now increasingly being generated through artifici…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Many workers worldwide rely on digital platforms for their income. In Venezuela, a nation grappling with extreme inflation and where most of the workforce is self-employed, data production pla…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. A recent innovation in the field of machine learning has been the creation of very large pre-trained models, also referred to as ‘foundation models’, that draw on much larger and broader sets …
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Self-trackers collect personal data for many reasons, including generating insight about their bodies, habits, productivity, and wellbeing. Self-tracking may expose intimate facets of daily li…
Big Data &Society, Volume 11, Issue 2, April-June 2024. Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that ca…