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DATA INQUIRY: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DATAFICATION IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
, 2021 Datafication is widely acknowledged as a process “transforming all things under the sun into a data format” (van Dijck, 2017, p. 11). As data become both objects and instruments of social science, many scholars call for attention to the ...
Zakharova, Irina
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New Technology and Work: AI and the Coming Struggle to Democratise Work Organisation
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores AI‐related changes at work and considers the adequacy of our conceptual tools in the light of contemporary advances in AI. These considerations raise the question of whether sociologists of work should engage more in advocating for worker voice in technology decision‐making. Using the concept of work organisation, I draw on
Stephen J. Frenkel
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Four forms of datafied journalism. Journalism's response to the datafication of society
, 2018 Many grand narratives on the transformation of society relate recent changes to broader processes of datafication and algorithmic data processing. This paper situates the datafication of journalism in relation to society's datafication and discusses four
Loosen, Wiebke
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Digital Disease Ecologies: Encounter, Datafication and the Digital Geographies of One Health
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Through the case of Snake Awareness Rescue Protection App (SARPA), a digital snake translocation and snakebite prevention mobile phone application in Kerala, India, this paper extends recent geographical ‘digital ecologies’ scholarship's concern for the digitisation of more‐than‐human worlds to digital health technology and disease ...
George Kirkham
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Datafication Dilemmas:Data Governance in the Public Interest
Within CSCW, there is a robust body of literature examining the infrastructures, institutions, and labor processes enabling pervasive processes of datafication.
Dombrowski, Lynn +5 more
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Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This paper explores the geographical patterns of firm creation and investments in African FinTech and how they have evolved since the emergence of FinTech on the continent. Our findings show waves of investment, specialisation of different FinTech centres and the networks of FinTech capital.
Julien Migozzi, Dariusz Wójcik
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Education InquiryThe educational services industry has grown internationally, and there has been an explosion in external programmes that teach basics and behavioural control, as well as administrative data programmes.
Kristín Dýrfjörð +2 more
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Nordicom Review, 2018 The visualization of numeric data is becoming an important element in journalism. In this article, we present an interview study investigating data visualization practices in Scandinavian newsrooms.
Engebretsen Martin +2 more
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Datafication and Universities : the convergence of spies, scholars and science
, 2019 Y. N. Harari explores ‘dataism’ or ‘datafication’, a viewpoint that suggests data-flows are the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Dataists argue that datafication is the natural development of humankind – but will eventually supersede it.
Dobson, Melina J., Aldrich, Richard J.
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Datafication and discrimination
, 2017 Popular accounts of datafied ways of knowing implied in the ascendance of big data posit that the increasingly massive volume of information collected immanently to digital technologies affords new means of understanding complex social processes. The development of novel insights is attributed precisely to big data’s unprecedented scale, a scale that ...
Leurs, K.H.A., Shepherd, Tamara
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