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Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism

Jonas C. L. Valente, Grohmann Rafael

Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.

"The article aims to theorize about critical data studies with Latin America beyond the framework of data colonialism, arguing that the long history of social thought in the region can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the datafication. It discusses views around dependence, oppressions, ... more

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A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence

Catherine Stinson, Sofie Vlaad

Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.

"Diversity is often announced as a solution to ethical problems in artificial intelligence (AI), but what exactly is meant by diversity and how it can solve those problems is seldom spelled out. This lack of clarity is one hurdle to motivating diversity in AI. Another hurdle is that while the most c ... more

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An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option

Sebastián Lehuedé

Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.

"The frameworks of cyber, technology and data sovereignty have become some of the most influential alternative technological imaginaries. Developed by states and civil society groups, such frameworks are seducing a broad range of actors seeking to reassert their autonomy and self-determination in re ... more

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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance

Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung

Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.

"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain ... more

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Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work

Julian Posada

Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 12 pp.

"Many workers worldwide rely on digital platforms for their income. In Venezuela, a nation grappling with extreme inflation and where most of the workforce is self-employed, data production platforms for machine learning have emerged as a viable opportunity for many to earn an income in US dollars. ... more

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Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 13 pp.

"Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transfor ... more

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Privacy cynicism and diminishing utility of state surveillance: A natural experiment of mandatory location disclosure on China’s Weibo

Yuner Zhu

Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 17 pp.

"This article examines the public response to mandatory location disclosure (MLD), a new surveillance technology implemented on China’s Sina Weibo. Initially introduced to geo-tag posts related to the Ukraine War, the MLD eventually expanded to encompass all posts and comments on the platform. Dra ... more

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Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup

Benjamin Shestakofsky

Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.

"Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and exploitation. Existing research on the moral economy of data work focuses on platforms where individuals anonymously complete ... more

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Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement

Agnes Liminga, Simon Lindgren

Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.

"Growing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism. This article examines the discourse surrounding data activism on the social media platform Twitter. Through a mixed-methods approach combinin ... more

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Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem

Brett Aho

Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.

"Over the past decade, China has gradually begun to take a more proactive approach to digital development, passing a range of policies that aim to restructure how data is treated within its national economic system. These policies reflect the construction of a new data ecology in which data is gradu ... more

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AI for social good and the corporate capture of global development

Gianluca Lazzolino, Nicole Stremlau

Information Technology for Development, volume 30, issue 4 (2024), pp. 626-643

"This article focuses on the AI for Social Good (AI4SG) movement, which aims to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It argues that, through AI4SG, Big Tech is attempting to advance AIdriven technosolut ... more

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Internet Shutdowns, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial State in Africa

Nicole Stremlau

Global Policy (2024), 8 pp.

"Despite strong international condemnation, there is growing acceptance of internet shutdowns as a legitimate response to online content that governments—particularly in Africa—find concerning. This article explores government decision- making around internet shutdowns during contentious periods ... more

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Problem-solving? No, problem-opening! A method to reframe and teach data ethics as a transdisciplinary endeavour

Stefano Calzati, Henrik Ploeger

Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.

"Starting from the recognition of the limits of today’s common essentialist and axiological understandings of data and ethics, in this article we make the case for an ecosystemic understanding of data ethics (for the city) that accounts for the inherent value-laden entanglements and unintended (bo ... more

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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation

Monja Sauvagerd, Maximilian Mayer, Monika Hartmann

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.

"This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector. We examine this phenomenon through the lens of Van Dijck e ... more

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The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing

Daniel S. Schiff, Stephanie Kelley, Javier Camacho Ibáñez

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 16 pp.

"The emerging ecosystem of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and governance auditing has grown rapidly in recent years in anticipation of impending regulatory efforts that encourage both internal and external auditing. Yet, there is limited understanding of this evolving landscape. We conduct an i ... more

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Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content

Dragos M. Obreja

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 13 pp.

"Political and moral/religious contents are increasingly popular on TikTok, and the concerns associated with them create the premises for a re-exploration of the user–machine agency negotiation. Using algorithmic awareness as a process, this research examines the relationship between users’ awar ... more

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Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan’s open government data policy in the 2010s

Terrence Ting-Yen Chen

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 12 pp.

"What kind of “democracy” do new government-led digital initiatives facilitate? This paper discusses the issue by investigating the open government data policy in Taiwan in the 2010s, asking whether the policy encouraged “strong democracy.” Using interviews, written records, and an analysis ... more

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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy

Kai-Hsin Hung

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.

"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros ... more

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Against decolonial reductionism: The impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project

Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 5 pp.

"This essay argues that Latin American scholarship and movement practice are key to understanding the dynamics of the datafied society and countering its inequities. Examining the sources of inspiration of a frontrunner seeking to decolonize the datafied society – the Big Data from the South Initi ... more

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Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR

Michaela Padden, Andreas Öjehag-Pettersson

Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 13 pp.

"This article discusses the perspectives of European Union (EU) / European Economic Area Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) on their role in protecting democratic rights and freedoms in digitalised societies. Data Protection Authorities, which are independent regulators, are responsible for implemen ... more