Big Data & Society

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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

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

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz 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 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 (@miehumie) et al. 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" by @nina_amelung How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by @MahaRafiAtal & Pamela Mondliwa (@Nqojela) Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.

🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society: Why the smart home failed Ethnographic insights from Goulden & Cameron reveal how everyday resistance quietly unraveled Big Tech’s dream. 📖 #SmartHome #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #BDaS

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData