✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Algorithmic inequality by design: Human resistance and its limits in chatbot-based customer service” by @Guoning Zhao. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #chatbot #criticalalgorithmstudies #algorithmicresistance

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design” by @Bhavna Joshi and colleagues! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #Precisionagriculture #Q-method #speculativedesign

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Efficiency over democracy? AI and the discursive erasure of human involvement in HRM media” by Eva Lindell and Anna Launberg. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #blackboxing #democracy

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Public say versus public sway: ‘Lived experience literacy’ in the pursuit of participatory AI” by @pjcreates.bsky.social, Stef Garasto, and Lara Groves. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #responsibleAI #participatoryAI #AIliteracy

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements” by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, @danihynes.bsky.social, S. Mutter, and J. Somers Donnely. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #dataactivism #datafiedsociety #socialmovements

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Digital passing: 'I died once, so I could live. Perhaps that is my real story'” by Beata Paragi. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #digitalpassing #biometricrecognition #biometricsurveillance

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Vectorizing distinction: The mathematical logic of online profiling through a Bourdieusian lens” by Saban Contandriopoulos and Damien Contandriopoulos. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Bourdieu #sociologicaltheory #theoryoftaste

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Agents of erasure: Following the deletion of public sector data through its value chain” by @frederikschade.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #personaldata #deletion #valuechain #publicadministration

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Transformation of the clinic: Data-driven pre-emption of diseases and the politics of health” by Niels Van Dijk and Katerina Sideri. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #predictivemedicine #precisionmedicine #remotepatientmonitoring

Transformation of the clinic: Data-driven pre-emption of disease and the politics of health - Niels Van Dijk, Katerina Sideri, 2026

Healthcare systems in Europe are undergoing a transformation due to high costs of care. Remote measurement technologies (RMTs) such as wearable sensors, mobile ...

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✨ New in BD&S ✨ “Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries” by Gabrielle D. Beacken, @ingakris.bsky.social, and Samuel C. Woolley. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #propaganda #democraticweakening

📢 New in *Big Data & Society*: How do people think generative AI chatbots actually work? Li, Kim & Lou explore laypeople’s *folk theories* about tools like ChatGPT: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

How is scientific knowledge infrastructure becoming platformized? Analyzing 976 NSF-funded data management plans (2011–2021), Acker, Struett, Tian & Finn trace a shift from open-source preservation toward corporate-owned platforms and cloud services: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

📢 New in *Big Data & Society*: How does environmental data shape activism in contexts where resistance is not always openly confrontational? Yu Sun examines NGO-led environmental data practices in China: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

New in Big Data & Society: David Beer & Benjamin N. Jacobsen show how “distillation” is not just technical—it’s reframing what counts as reasoning in AI. With DeepSeek-R1, this points to power without scale. Concepts don’t just describe AI—they shape its future. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification” by @aminaabdu.bsky.social and @azjacobs.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #legitimacy #quantification #algorithmicgovernance

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Platformization of research data infrastructure: A decadal analysis of scientific data management plans” by Amelia Acker, @tstruett.bsky.social, Yubing Tian, and Megan Finn. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #researchdatamanagement #openscience

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “’You can’t put the cat back in the bag once it’s out’: Australians’ understandings, practices and imaginaries concerning generative AI” by @dalupton.bsky.social and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GenerativeAI #socialresearch

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Making machine learning good enough – studying the political endeavour of finding ‘right’ metrics and thresholds” by @annaschjoett.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #machinelearning #goodenough #MLevaluation

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “The data of care: Intergenerational lives between support and surveillance” by Zuzana Talašová doi.org/10.1177/2053... Examines how digital care blurs support and surveillance, reshaping intergenerational life and hidden caregiving labor.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Reclaiming data science for just geographies: A critical approach” by Laura van Geene et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053... Calls for decolonial, intersectional data science to challenge inequality and build more just futures.

AI doesn’t run on data alone—it runs on people. Research on workers in Madagascar & Venezuela shows: • Data workers actively navigate constraints • They invest in skills + future aspirations • Yet their work is still framed as “low-skilled” journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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New in Big Data & Society: When does location data become surveillance? A study of 1,405 Americans shows: • Trajectory data = highest concern • “Privacy fixes” only partly reassure • Perceptions vary across social groups journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

New in Big Data & Society 📢 How much do we trust governments to automate decisions? Guitton et al. show: acceptance depends less on “algorithms” in general—and more on how, where, and why they’re used. #AI #GovTech #BigDataAndSociety journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

New in Big Data & Society 📢 Visibility online isn’t just about reach—it’s about how it travels. Tsinovoi & Munk show how platform structures + user practices shape different “spaces” of visibility. #PlatformStudies #Visibility journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Today: Panel 4 Governing Digital Infrastructures: Platforms, AI, and the Public Interest uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765 #DataGovernance

Tomorrow: BD&S Colloquium Panel 4. Join us for a practical discussion of governance tools for platforms and AI in the public interest. uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765 #Policy #AI

📢 New in Big Data & Society Platforms increasingly restrict third-party access to data—while expanding their own. Based on 279 ToS (2012–2022), Perel et al. show how data enclosure is growing, alongside GDPR. Implications for research access & platform power. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

📢 New in Big Data & Society LLMs are reshaping power: from persuasion to “silicon subjects” and simulated societies. What does this mean for AI governance? journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Panel 4 speakers: Brett Aho, Annabelle Gawer, and Troels Krarup. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765 #STS #AI