AI as Political Concept
π€π³οΈ New Big Data & Society paper: AI discourse creates false certainty, hides human responsibility, and narrows democratic space.
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Green Platform Capitalism
ππΎ Amazon, Apple & Microsoft frame tech as the solution to climate β but new Big Data & Society research calls this βgreen platform capitalism.β
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03.12.2025 10:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Too Good To Go & COβ
ππ½οΈ New Big Data & Society study: users largely donβt trust or act on βCOβe avoidedβ scores in the Too Good To Go app. Fixed metrics β meaningful impact.
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03.12.2025 10:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New in Big Data & Society:
How should ethnographers navigate GenAI visuals? This commentary introduces a 3C FrameworkβContextuality, Consent, Criticalityβto support ethical and reflective use of AI-generated images in research.
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01.12.2025 09:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New in Big Data & Society:
Whenβif everβis 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.
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01.12.2025 09:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New in Big Data & Society:
Large global survey (N=1523) shows women & LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately misgendered by Xβs gender inference algorithms. Misgendering strongly shapes trust, user attitudes & perceptions of platform governance.
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Samuele Fratini examines how digital sovereignty is performed through infrastructures, institutions & imaginaries. Using the case of Threema, the article shows how privacy, seclusion & territorialism shape a βhybrid black boxβ of sovereignty.
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01.12.2025 09:13 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It's also a sort of running technical appendix to my work on the continuity between LLMs and cybernetics, such as this article in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social
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Thrilled to have a new article published in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social! π₯³ππ
With scraping becoming a more common data collection strategy for internet researchers, we cover the legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific ramifications researchers should consider. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
20.11.2025 15:19 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨
"Mosaic of state power: How βNewβ state capitalism shapes global tech capitalβ by Weidi Zheng.
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#newstatecapitalism #datagovernance #capitalism #governance
18.11.2025 22:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in Chinaβ by Min Zhou.
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#digitalvillagestrategy #digitalruralgovernance #digitalgridsystem
18.11.2025 22:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨
"Feeding the machine: Practitioner experiences of efforts to overcome AIβs data dilemmaβ by Jo Bates, Monika Fratczak, Hellen Kennedy, Itzelle Medina Perea, and Erinma Ochu.
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#datainputs #machinelearning #datadilemma #datawork
17.11.2025 10:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨
"Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereigntyβ by CΓ©sar BolaΓ±o and FabrΓcio Zanghelini.
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#dataeconomy #value #fictitiouscapital #nationalsovereignty
11.11.2025 08:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨
"Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicineβ by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson.
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#sex #gender #precisionmedicine
06.11.2025 09:23 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨
"Using archival versions of apps to understand emerging digital ecosystems" by James Burroughs, Ashwin Matthew, and Elisa Oreglia.
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#appanalysis #apphistoriography
05.11.2025 10:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
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"When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?" by Shangrui Wang et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Finds citizens trust humans over AI in accountability roles, revealing tensions in public trust and governance.
03.11.2025 18:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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βRevolutionize medicine as we know itβ: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space by DesirΓ©e Enlund doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Examines how EU health data imaginaries shape digital care futures raising concerns over data commodification and Big Tech governance
02.11.2025 18:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Bridging silos or adding friction?" by Wouter Van Rossem & Annalisa Pelizza doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Explores how data work enables re-identification across interoperable systems, revealing hidden frictions in migration and government tech.
01.11.2025 17:02 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Synthetic data as meaningful data. On Responsibility in data ecosystems" by Marianna Capasso doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Argues for a justice-centered approach to synthetic data, reframing it as meaningful and relational within responsible AI ecosystems.
31.10.2025 17:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Trans data epistemologies: Transgender ways of knowing with data" by Nikko Stevens & Amelia Lee DoΔan doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Explores how trans activists use and reimagine data as care, community power, and resistance through a trans data epistemology.
30.10.2025 17:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Intelligent toys, complex questions" by Wei Xiao & Alexandre Gonçalves doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Reviews AI toys for kids, revealing gaps between educational claims and research, and calls for ethical design and regulation.
29.10.2025 17:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π¨ New in Big Data & Society π¨ "Contesting data power at the margins" by Ngai Keung Chan et al. doi.org/10.1177/2053....
Examines how Hong Kong activists use data imaginaries to challenge surveillance, develop counter-strategies, and mobilize under datafied control.
24.10.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem" by Bingqing Xia & Tongyu Wu doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Uses the βplatformisation treeβ to examine how disability, precarity, and platform labor intersect in China's AI data annotation economy.
23.10.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using βChinaβ to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
22.10.2025 19:04 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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"Cosine capital: Large language models and the embedding of all things" by Mikael Brunila doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Proposes βcosine capitalβ to describe how LLM embeddings commodify language and data, reshaping power, abstraction, and AI economies.
21.10.2025 19:01 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
π€ AI controversies β democratic debate or expert power?
Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach & Anna Jobin in BD&S argue that AI debates often reassert authority rather than open democracy.
Are we exposing real tensions β or just staging spectacle?
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#AIControversy #STS
17.10.2025 09:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
π§ͺ Synthetic data β justice or synthetic-washing?
@louravn.bsky.social in BD&S examines UNβMicrosoft trafficking datasets:
Who benefits? Who is seen? What is erased?
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#DataJustice #SyntheticData
17.10.2025 09:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
In @bigdatasoc.bsky.social, D&S researcher @briana-v.bsky.social & program director Ranjit Singh consider how the growing adoption of AI in mental health support impacts both users & providers, and advocate for a critical approach to its development & governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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π― Targeted Ads, TikTok & Meme Resistance
New in Big Data & Society by @nataliastanusch.bsky.social
What do TikTok memes reveal about how users understand β and resist β being watched by algorithms?
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15.10.2025 07:05 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Ass. Prof. and Researcher at @Espol-lab.bsky.social and @ENS_ULM @ensgeopolitics l #security #border #technologies #AI Ex @KingsCollegeLon @UnivParisSaclay @Georgetown
Posts about Big data, Digital Sociology, Open gov, ICTD, #DataEthics.
PhD @LSE on Data driven practices in social policy. Currently on the post-doc job market! Hi everyone π
https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/alumni/phd-alumni/asha-titus
Professor, Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois.
Digital Humanities-Music Information Retrieval-Library and Information Science
Where: HathiTrust Research Center, iSchool, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
What: DH+Libraries, multilingual DH, Russian literature, children's literature, translation.
How: However I can.
Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
Science and Technology Studies journal exploring how (arte)facts, processes, products shape & are shaped by society, since 1987!
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csac20
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, βAlgorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,β which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding todayβs LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
ST&HV is a journal that publishes cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies http://journals.sagepub.com/home/sth
Ontario Research Chair in Science Policy
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/
JCE explores how material cultural practices organise economies and societies. EICs Philip Roscoe @philiproscoe.bsky.social & Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social
Est. 1972. Social science journal: economic and cultural relations, states and governance, & much more.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/reso20
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
postdoc @ university of copenhagen, "Data Loss: the politics of disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies"
researching internet histories, web archives, platform temporalities
katiemackinnon.xyz
Enriched macaroni product.
Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory.
SAFC
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nytCQGYAAAAJ&hl=en
Urban geographer and digital media scholar | Postdoc @META_PoliMi | Visiting Fellow in AI, Data & Society @oxford_brookes
PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on Data Bodies, Critical AI in Health Decision-making | Ethics & Politics of AI systems, Platforms, Political Economy | she/her | π https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/u/d.luitse/d.luitse.html
Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
