Big Data & Society
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Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
Today: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism. Join us live. uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #DataJustice
#DataActivism #DataJustice
January 21, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Today: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism. Join us live. uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #DataJustice
#DataActivism #DataJustice
Join us TOMORROW for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1. How do communities use data to build alternatives and advance justice and democracy while navigating bias and power in data collection and governance? Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Join us TOMORROW for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1. How do communities use data to build alternatives and advance justice and democracy while navigating bias and power in data collection and governance? Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Helena Suárez Val (Data Against Feminicide; Feminicidio Uruguay). Their work connects data, feminism, and human rights through activist research and digital communication practice focused on mapping feminicides. Jan 21 uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Helena Suárez Val (Data Against Feminicide; Feminicidio Uruguay). Their work connects data, feminism, and human rights through activist research and digital communication practice focused on mapping feminicides. Jan 21 uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam). Her research sits at the intersection of political participation, infrastructure, and governance by data, with a focus on how people build political agency through and around data systems.
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam). Her research sits at the intersection of political participation, infrastructure, and governance by data, with a focus on how people build political agency through and around data systems.
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Yanni Alexander Loukissas (Georgia Tech). Their work challenges digital universalism by showing how data are shaped by their settings, and how community centered mapmaking can function as a research instrument. Jan 21 uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
January 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Speaker spotlight for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Yanni Alexander Loukissas (Georgia Tech). Their work challenges digital universalism by showing how data are shaped by their settings, and how community centered mapmaking can function as a research instrument. Jan 21 uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism. Community mapping, feminist data work, and data justice approaches that challenge entrenched power. Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism. Community mapping, feminist data work, and data justice approaches that challenge entrenched power. Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism
#DataActivism
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Protecting society from itself: How the social credit system is justified on Chinese social media” by Christoph Steinhardt and Christian Göbel.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#surveillance #privacy #infrastructuralpower
"Protecting society from itself: How the social credit system is justified on Chinese social media” by Christoph Steinhardt and Christian Göbel.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#surveillance #privacy #infrastructuralpower
January 16, 2026 at 10:11 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Protecting society from itself: How the social credit system is justified on Chinese social media” by Christoph Steinhardt and Christian Göbel.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#surveillance #privacy #infrastructuralpower
"Protecting society from itself: How the social credit system is justified on Chinese social media” by Christoph Steinhardt and Christian Göbel.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#surveillance #privacy #infrastructuralpower
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism
Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT (11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST)
uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #CriticalDataStudies #DataJustice
Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT (11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST)
uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #CriticalDataStudies #DataJustice
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 1: Constructing Alternatives through Community Data & Data Activism
Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT (11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST)
uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #CriticalDataStudies #DataJustice
Jan 21 | 16:00–18:00 GMT (11:00 AM–1:00 PM EST)
uky.zoom.us/j/85254638887
#DataActivism #CriticalDataStudies #DataJustice
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"’Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space” by Tanja Plasil, Gunhild Tøndel, Mads Dahl Fjesen, and Odd Morten Mjøen.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#quality #datafication
"’Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space” by Tanja Plasil, Gunhild Tøndel, Mads Dahl Fjesen, and Odd Morten Mjøen.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#quality #datafication
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"’Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space” by Tanja Plasil, Gunhild Tøndel, Mads Dahl Fjesen, and Odd Morten Mjøen.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#quality #datafication
"’Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space” by Tanja Plasil, Gunhild Tøndel, Mads Dahl Fjesen, and Odd Morten Mjøen.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#quality #datafication
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"The dialectics of discretion in algorithmic governance and smart policing” by Ashwin Varghese.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#algorithmicgovernance, #discretion, #e-governance
"The dialectics of discretion in algorithmic governance and smart policing” by Ashwin Varghese.
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#algorithmicgovernance, #discretion, #e-governance
January 14, 2026 at 11:16 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"The dialectics of discretion in algorithmic governance and smart policing” by Ashwin Varghese.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#algorithmicgovernance, #discretion, #e-governance
"The dialectics of discretion in algorithmic governance and smart policing” by Ashwin Varghese.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#algorithmicgovernance, #discretion, #e-governance
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Between promise and peril: Users’ risk-benefit trade-offs in their generative AI usage” by Hongjie Tang, Mengxue Ou, and Han Zheng.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#GenerativeAI, #psychologicaldistance, #AIuse
"Between promise and peril: Users’ risk-benefit trade-offs in their generative AI usage” by Hongjie Tang, Mengxue Ou, and Han Zheng.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#GenerativeAI, #psychologicaldistance, #AIuse
January 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Between promise and peril: Users’ risk-benefit trade-offs in their generative AI usage” by Hongjie Tang, Mengxue Ou, and Han Zheng.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#GenerativeAI, #psychologicaldistance, #AIuse
"Between promise and peril: Users’ risk-benefit trade-offs in their generative AI usage” by Hongjie Tang, Mengxue Ou, and Han Zheng.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#GenerativeAI, #psychologicaldistance, #AIuse
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good” by @Edith Darin.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#demography #digitaltrace #census
"Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good” by @Edith Darin.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#demography #digitaltrace #census
January 12, 2026 at 8:12 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good” by @Edith Darin.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#demography #digitaltrace #census
"Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good” by @Edith Darin.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#demography #digitaltrace #census
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Refractive datasets as a sensemaking methodology in closed data ecosystems” by @Anna Beers, @Viviane Ito, @Agusting Orozco, @Patrick Gildersleve, @Pablo Aragón, and @Francesca Tripodi.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#computationalsocialscience #dataaccess
"Refractive datasets as a sensemaking methodology in closed data ecosystems” by @Anna Beers, @Viviane Ito, @Agusting Orozco, @Patrick Gildersleve, @Pablo Aragón, and @Francesca Tripodi.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#computationalsocialscience #dataaccess
January 9, 2026 at 9:46 AM
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Refractive datasets as a sensemaking methodology in closed data ecosystems” by @Anna Beers, @Viviane Ito, @Agusting Orozco, @Patrick Gildersleve, @Pablo Aragón, and @Francesca Tripodi.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#computationalsocialscience #dataaccess
"Refractive datasets as a sensemaking methodology in closed data ecosystems” by @Anna Beers, @Viviane Ito, @Agusting Orozco, @Patrick Gildersleve, @Pablo Aragón, and @Francesca Tripodi.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#computationalsocialscience #dataaccess
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Introducing a predictive experiment: Ethics, data and public defence in Chile” by Arturo Arriagada and Dusan Cotoras.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#ethics #datagovernance #AI
"Introducing a predictive experiment: Ethics, data and public defence in Chile” by Arturo Arriagada and Dusan Cotoras.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#ethics #datagovernance #AI
January 8, 2026 at 9:33 AM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Introducing a predictive experiment: Ethics, data and public defence in Chile” by Arturo Arriagada and Dusan Cotoras.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#ethics #datagovernance #AI
"Introducing a predictive experiment: Ethics, data and public defence in Chile” by Arturo Arriagada and Dusan Cotoras.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#ethics #datagovernance #AI
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Governing prediction: A material political economy of the computational toxicology market” by @David Demortain and @Henri Boullier.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#Digitalindustries #predictionsoftware #materialpoliticaleconomy
"Governing prediction: A material political economy of the computational toxicology market” by @David Demortain and @Henri Boullier.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#Digitalindustries #predictionsoftware #materialpoliticaleconomy
January 7, 2026 at 9:43 AM
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"Governing prediction: A material political economy of the computational toxicology market” by @David Demortain and @Henri Boullier.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#Digitalindustries #predictionsoftware #materialpoliticaleconomy
"Governing prediction: A material political economy of the computational toxicology market” by @David Demortain and @Henri Boullier.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#Digitalindustries #predictionsoftware #materialpoliticaleconomy
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity” by Liang Ge.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#AIhallucination #datacolonialism #posthumanhermeneutics
"Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity” by Liang Ge.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#AIhallucination #datacolonialism #posthumanhermeneutics
January 6, 2026 at 12:59 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity” by Liang Ge.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#AIhallucination #datacolonialism #posthumanhermeneutics
"Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity” by Liang Ge.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#AIhallucination #datacolonialism #posthumanhermeneutics
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!
December 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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 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
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🆕 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 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
#AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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
#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/...
🤖🗳️ New Big Data & Society paper: AI discourse creates false certainty, hides human responsibility, and narrows democratic space.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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/...
🤖🗳️ 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/...
🌍💾 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/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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/...
🌍💾 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 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/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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 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/...
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/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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/...
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/...
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/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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/...
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/...
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/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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/...
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/...