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, 2023 Datafication involves the translation of things into quantitative information and commonly refers to the production of digital data. As with practically every aspect of contemporary life, datafication is having a significant impact in education. This article discusses developments in the datafication of education and its contribution to changes in ...
Matthew Thorpe, Sam Sellar
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Internet Policy Review, 2019 Datafication is not just the making of information, which, in one sense, human beings have been doing since the creation of symbols and writing. Rather, datafication is a contemporary phenomenon which refers to the quantification of human life through digital information, very often for economic value.
Mejias, Ulises A., Couldry, Nick
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Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: Introduction to the Special Issue [PDF]
European Journal of Communication, 2020 Digital media enable processes of datafication: users' online activities leave digital traces that are transformed into data points in databases, kept by service providers and other private and public organisations, and repurposed for commercial exploitation, business innovation, surveillance -- and research. Increasingly, this also extends to sensors
Lomborg, Stine +2 more
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, 2022 What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically.
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Controversing Datafication through Media Architectures
, 2023 In this chapter, we discuss a speculative and participatory “media architecture” installation that engages people with the potential impacts of data through speculative future images of the datafied city. The installation was originally conceived as a physical combination of digital media technologies and architectural form—a “media
Duignan, Corelia Baibarac +3 more
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Deconstructing datafication’s brave new world [PDF]
New Media & Society, 2018 As World Economic Forum’s definition of personal data as ‘the new “oil” – a valuable resource of the 21st century’ shows, large-scale data processing is increasingly considered the defining feature of contemporary economy and society. Commercial and governmental discourse on data frequently argues its benefits, and so legitimates its continuous and ...
Couldry, Nick, Yu, Jun
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The Datafication of Wastewater:
Technology and Regulation, 2022 Wastewater analysis and surveillance are well-established practices whose use has dramatically expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we argue that the extraction of diverse types of data from wastewater is part of the larger phenomenon of ‘datafication’.
Teresa Scassa +2 more
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, 2021 Este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir la datificación de la vida en la fase actual del desarrollo de la cultura digital a partir de tres ejes: relaciones sociales, conocimiento y naturaleza. La datificación tiene lugar en el seguimiento de las relaciones sociales mediadas por plataformas digitales y como “requisición” del mundo en forma de datos ...
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The Datafication of Hate Speech
, 2023 Hate speech has been identified as a pressing problem in society, and several automated approaches have been designed to detect and prevent it. This chapter reflects on the operationalizations, transformations, and reductions required by the datafication of hate to build such an automated system. The observations are based on an action research setting
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The datafication of the worldview
AI & SOCIETY, 2020 The goal of this article is twofold. First, it aims at sketching the outlines of material hermeneutics as a three-level analysis of technological artefacts. In the first section, we introduce Erwin Panofsky’s three levels of interpretation of an artwork, and we propose to import this approach in the field of philosophy of technology.
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