The Politics of Data: The rising prominence of a data-centric approach to...
Today we launch a series of posts on the politics of data. Big data, small data and data sharing will be critically examined by a range of experts, each exploring the implications of the changing data...
View ArticleHow data does political things: The processes of encoding and decoding data...
It is difficult to see the political structure of data, because data maintains a veneer of scientistic objectivity. But data is inherently a form of politics, argues Jeffrey Alan Johnson. Data does not...
View ArticleWeb analytics in the workplace: What Amazon and web newsrooms have in common...
The Politics of Data series continues with an investigation of how data-driven performance measurements operate in the workplace. What can we learn from the case of clicks in online news? Drawing from...
View ArticleBig data problems we face today can be traced to the social ordering...
In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and analysis of...
View ArticleFacebook and the digital romance economy: courtship, scams, and internet...
Through the controversial internet.org initiative, Facebook now serves as The Internet to the majority of the world’s marginalized demographic. The Politics of Data series continues with Payal Arora...
View ArticleThe Politics of Data: The rising prominence of a data-centric approach to...
Today we launch a series of posts on the politics of data. Big data, small data and data sharing will be critically examined by a range of experts, each exploring the implications of the changing data...
View ArticleHow data does political things: The processes of encoding and decoding data...
It is difficult to see the political structure of data, because data maintains a veneer of scientistic objectivity. But data is inherently a form of politics, argues Jeffrey Alan Johnson. Data does not...
View ArticleWeb analytics in the workplace: What Amazon and web newsrooms have in common...
The Politics of Data series continues with an investigation of how data-driven performance measurements operate in the workplace. What can we learn from the case of clicks in online news? Drawing from...
View ArticleBig data problems we face today can be traced to the social ordering...
In the 19th century, changes in knowledge were facilitated not only by large quantities of new information pouring in from around the world but by shifts in the production, processing and analysis of...
View ArticleFacebook and the digital romance economy: courtship, scams, and internet...
Through the controversial internet.org initiative, Facebook now serves as The Internet to the majority of the world’s marginalized demographic. The Politics of Data series continues with Payal Arora...
View ArticleResearch should not allow the loud voice of online content production to...
Social science research aims to record, analyse, and make sense of social mess; to observe and account for everything in a given setting. Why, then, does so much of the research carried out online...
View ArticleBook Review: The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception by David Beer
In The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception, David Beer explores how we are being put under the extractive, analytic and predictive lens of a data gaze that seeks to define our world in...
View ArticleBook Review: Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World...
In Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, Meredith Broussard adds to the growing literature exploring the limits of artificial intelligence (AI) and techno-solutionism,...
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