🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson. 🔓: lnkd.in/dwivCrXH #sex #gender #precisionmedicine

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Using archival versions of apps to understand emerging digital ecosystems" by James Burroughs, Ashwin Matthew, and Elisa Oreglia. 🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #appanalysis #apphistoriography

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?" by Shangrui Wang et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... Finds citizens trust humans over AI in accountability roles, revealing tensions in public trust and governance.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space by Desirée Enlund doi.org/10.1177/2053... Examines how EU health data imaginaries shape digital care futures raising concerns over data commodification and Big Tech governance

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Bridging silos or adding friction?" by Wouter Van Rossem & Annalisa Pelizza doi.org/10.1177/2053... Explores how data work enables re-identification across interoperable systems, revealing hidden frictions in migration and government tech.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Synthetic data as meaningful data. On Responsibility in data ecosystems" by Marianna Capasso doi.org/10.1177/2053... Argues for a justice-centered approach to synthetic data, reframing it as meaningful and relational within responsible AI ecosystems.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data" by Nikko Stevens & Amelia Lee Doğan doi.org/10.1177/2053... Explores how trans activists use and reimagine data as care, community power, and resistance through a trans data epistemology.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Intelligent toys, complex questions" by Wei Xiao & Alexandre Gonçalves doi.org/10.1177/2053... Reviews AI toys for kids, revealing gaps between educational claims and research, and calls for ethical design and regulation.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project" by Shaul A. Duke et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... Examines how concerns over risk, trust, and surveillance shape public support for health AI initiatives

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Contesting data power at the margins" by Ngai Keung Chan et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053.... Examines how Hong Kong activists use data imaginaries to challenge surveillance, develop counter-strategies, and mobilize under datafied control.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem" by Bingqing Xia & Tongyu Wu doi.org/10.1177/2053... Uses the “platformisation tree” to examine how disability, precarity, and platform labor intersect in China's AI data annotation economy.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053... Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Cosine capital: Large language models and the embedding of all things" by Mikael Brunila doi.org/10.1177/2053... Proposes “cosine capital” to describe how LLM embeddings commodify language and data, reshaping power, abstraction, and AI economies.

🤖 AI controversies — democratic debate or expert power? Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach & Anna Jobin in BD&S argue that AI debates often reassert authority rather than open democracy. Are we exposing real tensions — or just staging spectacle? 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053... #AIControversy #STS

🧪 Synthetic data — justice or synthetic-washing? @louravn.bsky.social in BD&S examines UN–Microsoft trafficking datasets: Who benefits? Who is seen? What is erased? 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2053... #DataJustice #SyntheticData

In @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, D&S researcher @briana-v.bsky.social & program director Ranjit Singh consider how the growing adoption of AI in mental health support impacts both users & providers, and advocate for a critical approach to its development & governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎯 Targeted Ads, TikTok & Meme Resistance New in Big Data & Society by @nataliastanusch.bsky.social What do TikTok memes reveal about how users understand — and resist — being watched by algorithms? 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New in Big Data & Society Artificial intelligence is mental: Evaluating the role of large-language models in supporting mental health and well-being by Briana Vecchione & Ranjit Singh. 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

🌍 New in Big Data & Society: Arora & He rethink digital labor in the Global South — not just exploitation, but digital hope. From “surveillance of care” to “algorithms of aspiration,” they show how marginalized users craft agency within platforms. 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🆕 New in Big Data & Society: How do AI livestreaming communities imagine & shape AI? Gutierrez, Nguyen & van Es explore “Nothing, Forever” to reveal everyday AI imaginaries beyond elite discourse. Read here 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution" by Nathalie Casemajor doi.org/10.1177/2053... Explores how data culture at Quebec’s National Library (BAnQ) reflects tensions between innovation, governance, and public service goals. #DataCulture

🤖 New in Big Data & Society! Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi proposes an “interviewing AI” framework—using qualitative methods to study how AI systems behave. 🔗 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📊 New in Big Data & Society! Lindsay Weinberg examines how Microsoft’s Power BI is reshaping Danish higher ed governance—turning students into data points, linking programs to job metrics, and pushing new forms of accountability. 🔗 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 New in Big Data & Society! Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer argues generative AI is not just another tool but a learned technology—shaping task-relatedness, interaction, and agency in new ways. Read here 👉 lnkd.in/eaTDxrSy

🚨 New in Big Data & Society! Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures by @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social & Apryl Williams Fairness frameworks have dominated AI ethics, but often fall short. 📖 Read full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So honored to join the editorial boards of @bigdatasoc.bsky.social and Social Studies of Science. And quite intimidating to be surrounded by so many prestigious scholars! 🫨 #academiccommunitywork journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo... journals.sagepub.com/editorial-bo...

🚨 New Article Alert in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Should I provide my health data for research? Citizens assessing the value of data provision” by Susanne Oechsner, Robin Rae, and @ulrike-felt.bsky.social. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #digitalhealth #mediatedreciprocity

📢 New Article Alert in Big Data & Society 📢 "Gender data for good? Partnerships between tech companies and humanitarian and development organizations" by Tara Patricia Cookson and Ruth Carlitz. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #humanitarian #development #dataforgood #genderequality

🚨 New Article Alert in Big Data & Society 🚨 "From platform provider to big-data-enabled financier: Industrial upgrading in China’s hog sector" by Yuxing Zhang. 📖: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #Smartfarming #China #platform #digitalagriculture #finance #algorithm

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by Sagnik Dutta & Mazumdar Suruchi doi.org/10.1177/2053... Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by Gianluca Lazzolino & Nimesh Dhungana doi.org/10.1177/2053... Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by Martin Tironi & Camila Albornoz doi.org/10.1177/2053... Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel doi.org/10.1177/2053... Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society🚨 "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure: Temporal configurations of the ‘interoperability’ project and the criminalization of migration by Nina Amelung doi.org/10.1177/2053...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves" by Sagnik Dutta and Suruchi Mazumdar doi.org/10.1177/2053... Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by Maha Rafi Atal @maharafiatal.bsky.social & Pamela Mondliwa doi.org/10.1177/2053... Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.

🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society Why did the smart home fail? Mundane resistance at home—not just tech flaws—undermined Big Tech’s vision. 📖 Goulden & Cameron: lnkd.in/ezp-Ee-h #SmartHome #PlatformPower #SurveillanceCapitalism

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by @empo11on.bsky.social (Aaron Martin) 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.”

New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on #humanitarian #data #sovereignty💥 doi.org/10.1177/2053... My deep gratitude to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, @margchee.bsky.social, @emryss.bsky.social, Quito Tsui, Paul Currion, @sophiebt.bsky.social, and @massimomarelli.bsky.social for the inspiration ❤️

🎮 New in Big Data & Society: "Playing, earning, crashing, and grinding: Axie Infinity and growth crises in the Web3 economy" by Jordan Ali & Gili Vidan What happens when play becomes work—and the game economy crashes? 🔍 Read more: lnkd.in/e9MU9VNN

🚨 We’re now on LinkedIn Follow Big Data & Society (Sage Journals) for updates on new articles, calls for papers, and critical conversations on data, tech & society. 🔗 Join us here: linkedin.com/company/big-... #BigDataSociety #AcademicTwitter #DigitalSociety #OpenAccess

Yes, privacy is contextual. But what does that mean for discussions of data privacy in various African contexts? Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah and I have a new publication out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social to answer this question with a case study of fintech in Ghana.

What happens when venture capital discovers women’s health. Some observations on the investment narratives getting this market moving in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social. Thanks to SI editors @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @brandaid-world.bsky.social & Sofie Elbæk Henriksen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by @puellaludens.bsky.social! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology

🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by @textaural.bsky.social, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca Sidoti! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto

📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #dataassemblage #dataecosystem