The concept of surveillance is indispensable for understanding the digital age, even as it requires constant inflection.
News and Research articles on Big data
The role of voluntary standards as intermediaries in the application of the Right to Data Portability: an empirical analysis.
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
The paper discusses the novel concept of critical big data literacy and presents first findings on online data literacy tools and their effects.
Once upon a time, a machine began telling us the stories of our lives… and humanity lived happily ever after.
In the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, it is timely to review the state of the debate about the impact of data-driven elections and to identify key questions that require academic research and regulatory response. The papers in this collection, by some of the world’s most prominent elections researchers, offer that assessment.
This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
Big crisis data presuppose the ongoing calculation and valuation of (transient) events, producing both singular and networked events and actors.
This special issue looks at studies that scrutinise big data and power in concrete fields of application. It brings together scholars from different disciplines shedding light on the fields of agriculture, education, border control and consumer policy.
How does the (dis)empowering surveillance practice of social sorting using big data impact on the notion of borders in Europe?
