Guest Blog: Mapping the landscape of cloud AI: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and the ‘industrialisation’ of artificial intelligence
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By Fernando van der Vlist (@fvandervlist) and Anne Helmond (@silvertje) Van der Vlist, F. N., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. L. (2024). Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence. Big Data & Society, 11(1), 1–16.https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241232630 Convergence of AI and Big Tech—The ongoing competition among tech giants in the ‘cloud AI wars’ is shaping a supposed transformative era. Industry leaders like Bill Gates and Sundar Pichai underscore the foundational role of AI. However, this transformation is chiefl ..read more
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Guest Blog: An Exploration of the Ways Agricultural Big Data is Assetized By Agriculture Technology Companies.
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By Sarah Marquis Hackfort, S., Marquis, S., & Bronson, K. (2024). Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications. Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241234279 In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the ways that Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook leverage personal data to create value, both economic and otherwise. Meanwhile, as digital technologies become more ubiquitous in agriculture, we thought it necessary to interrogate the ways that agricultural big data is being asse ..read more
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Bookcast: Melissa Villa-Nicholas discussing her book Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry around Immigrants
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Featuring authors: Dr. Melissa Villa-Nicholas Book: Data Borders: How Silicon Valley is Building an Industry around Immigrants (2023) University of California Press.   ..read more
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by Zelly Martin, Martin J. Riedl, Samuel C. W...
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by Zelly Martin, Martin J. Riedl, Samuel C. Woolley Martin, Z. C., Riedl, M. J., & Woolley, S. C. (2023). How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post-Roe America. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231221736 How pro- and anti-abortion activists use encrypted messaging apps in post-Roe America On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ended nearly 50 years of federal protection of abortion. Immediately, we noticed that experts were recommending encrypted messaging apps as the solution to abortion-related data leakage f ..read more
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Guest Blog: Christopher Till on Spotify's datafication of user health
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by Christopher Till Till, C. (2023). Spotify as a technology for integrating health, exercise and wellness practices into financialised capitalism. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231210278 Over the last few years I have noticed how Spotify, and similar music streaming services, have produced content and tailored services with the intention of helping us to improve our health and to exercise more. While looking into their innovations in this area (e.g. matching music tempo to running cadence, automatically generating playlists for particular activities) I began t ..read more
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Bookcast: Luke Munn interviewed by Andrew Dougall
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In this bookcast, Andrew Dougall interviews Luke Munn, Research Fellow in Digital Cultures & Societies at the University of Queensland about his recent book 'Technical Territories: Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia' (2023).  ..read more
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by Alexander Campolo and Katia Schwerzmann &n...
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by Alexander Campolo and Katia Schwerzmann   Campolo, A., & Schwerzmann, K. (2023). From rules to examples: Machine learning’s type of authority. Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231188725   The ethics of examples in machine learning  Our article investigates a perceived transition from a rules-based programming paradigm in computing to one in which machine learning systems are said to learn from examples. Instead of specifying computational rules in a formal programming language, machine learning systems identify statist ..read more
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2023 Colloquium: Data Practices and Digital Social Worlds
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Practices to collect, process, and communicate data have reconfigured sociological approaches to knowing and researching social life. Social researchers have analysed these reconfigurations as data-making practices, from the ethics of interacting with AI chatbots to the seductions of scraping social media data. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated accessing ‘the field’ from afar, with digital social research carried out remotely. How are these data practices continuing to make and transform digital social worlds? Organised by the journal Big Data & Society together with the Department of Soci ..read more
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2023 Call for Special Theme Proposals for Big Data & Society
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 Call for Special Theme Proposals for Big Data & Society The SAGE open access journal Big Data & Society (BD&S) is soliciting proposals for a Special Theme to be published in 2024/25. BD&S is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary social science research about the emerging field of Big Data practices and how they are reconfiguring relations, expertise, methods, concepts and knowledge across academic, social, cultural,  political, and economic realms. BD&S moves beyond usual notions of Big Data to engage with an emerg ..read more
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Reflections on BD&S during the transition of Editors-In-Chief
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In January 2023 the journal Big Data and Society transitioned the Editor-in-Chief from Evelyn Rupert (whose role is now Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and Founding Editor) to the former Managing Editor, Matthew Zook. Jennifer Gabrys has shifted from a co-editor to take on the job of Managing Editor as three new co-editors -- Rocco Bellanova, Ana Valdivia and Jing Zeng  -- have join the journal. Details on the full editorial team can be found here. As part of this transition both Evelyn Rupert and Matthew Zook have written short reflections on the first nine years of the journal and thoughts abo ..read more
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