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Why did the smart home fail?
Mundane resistance at home—not just tech flaws—undermined Big Tech’s vision.
📖 Goulden & Cameron: lnkd.in/ezp-Ee-h
#SmartHome #PlatformPower #SurveillanceCapitalism
01.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by @empo11on.bsky.social (Aaron Martin)
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.”
29.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data - Aaron Martin, 2025
Technological interventions in aid are both complex and deeply ambiguous. Nonetheless, many contemporary controversies surrounding humanitarian data reflect und...
New paper out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on #humanitarian #data #sovereignty💥
doi.org/10.1177/2053...
My deep gratitude to @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social, @margchee.bsky.social, @emryss.bsky.social, Quito Tsui, Paul Currion, @sophiebt.bsky.social, and @massimomarelli.bsky.social for the inspiration ❤️
29.07.2025 12:54 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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"Playing, earning, crashing, and grinding: Axie Infinity and growth crises in the Web3 economy" by Jordan Ali & Gili Vidan
What happens when play becomes work—and the game economy crashes?
🔍 Read more: lnkd.in/e9MU9VNN
22.07.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article with the title “Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana”
Yes, privacy is contextual. But what does that mean for discussions of data privacy in various African contexts?
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah and I have a new publication out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social to answer this question with a case study of fintech in Ghana.
18.06.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by @puellaludens.bsky.social!
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology
14.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by @textaural.bsky.social, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca
Sidoti!
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto
08.07.2025 13:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢: Read this new article on "Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system" by @robkitchin.bsky.social, @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Carla M Kayanan, and Samuel Mutter!
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#dataassemblage #dataecosystem
08.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
