The Big Data and Society Editorial Team will be on editorial break from December 17 to January 4. Please accept delays in processing and reviewing your submission and related correspondence during that time. Many thanks for your understanding!

🆕 New in Big Data & Society: How corporations in China, Germany & the US strategically shape AI governance through imaginaries like “Responsible AI” and “AI for Good.” A critical look at power, discourse & regulation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AIGovernance #TechPower #BigDataAndSociety

How do ChatGPT and Bard respond to homophobic prompts across different cultural and religious contexts? New research reveals a tension between cultural relativism and universal human rights in generative AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights

AI as Political Concept 🤖🗳️ New Big Data & Society paper: AI discourse creates false certainty, hides human responsibility, and narrows democratic space. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Green Platform Capitalism 🌍💾 Amazon, Apple & Microsoft frame tech as the solution to climate — but new Big Data & Society research calls this “green platform capitalism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Too Good To Go & CO₂ 📊🍽️ New Big Data & Society study: users largely don’t trust or act on “CO₂e avoided” scores in the Too Good To Go app. Fixed metrics ≠ meaningful impact. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New in Big Data & Society: How should ethnographers navigate GenAI visuals? This commentary introduces a 3C Framework—Contextuality, Consent, Criticality—to support ethical and reflective use of AI-generated images in research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New in Big Data & Society: When—if ever—is opaque AI acceptable in clinical decision-making? This article outlines the reasons that can justify black-box AI in healthcare, emphasizing accuracy, reliability & context-specific considerations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New in Big Data & Society: Large global survey (N=1523) shows women & LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately misgendered by X’s gender inference algorithms. Misgendering strongly shapes trust, user attitudes & perceptions of platform governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Samuele Fratini examines how digital sovereignty is performed through infrastructures, institutions & imaginaries. Using the case of Threema, the article shows how privacy, seclusion & territorialism shape a “hybrid black box” of sovereignty. OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's also a sort of running technical appendix to my work on the continuity between LLMs and cybernetics, such as this article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mika...

Thrilled to have a new article published in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! 🥳🎉📊 With scraping becoming a more common data collection strategy for internet researchers, we cover the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific ramifications researchers should consider. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Mosaic of state power: How ‘New’ state capitalism shapes global tech capital” by Weidi Zheng. 🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #newstatecapitalism #datagovernance #capitalism #governance

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China” by Min Zhou. 🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #digitalvillagestrategy #digitalruralgovernance #digitalgridsystem

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Feeding the machine: Practitioner experiences of efforts to overcome AI’s data dilemma” by Jo Bates, Monika Fratczak, Hellen Kennedy, Itzelle Medina Perea, and Erinma Ochu. 🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #datainputs #machinelearning #datadilemma #datawork

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty” by César Bolaño and Fabrício Zanghelini. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #dataeconomy #value #fictitiouscapital #nationalsovereignty

🚨 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.