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The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in social life compels a foundational reassessment of sociology's concepts, methods, and theoretical commitments. From generative language models to predictive policing, AI systems are no longer mere tools but increasingly agentic, opaque, and normative sociotechnical actors.
Canhui Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The Challenges of Researching Algorithms [PDF]

, 2016
In the debate on algorithmic accountability, and platform responsibility more specifically, the contribution of the social researcher is immense. In this set of posts, researchers reflect upon broad themes of control and agency — not only that which is ...
Gerlitz, Carolin, Tkacz, Nathaniel
core  

Online Privacy, Young People, and Datafication: Different Perceptions About Online Privacy Across Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Ghana, and Slovenia

Social Media + Society
Children and young people’s online privacy is increasingly challenged by the datafication of the digital world, and this is an increasingly important area of policy concern.
Rys Farthing, Katja Koren Ošljak, Teki Akuetteh, Kadian Camacho, Genevieve Smith-Nunes, Jun Zhao   +5 more
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Principals’ financial and pedagogical challenges when choosing programs and educational materials: the scope of the private education industry for preschools

Education Inquiry
The 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, Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir, Valgerður S. Bjarnadóttir   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Data Visualization in Scandinavian Newsrooms: Emerging Trends in Journalistic Visualization Practices

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, Kennedy Helen, Weber Wibke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking Literacy, Datafication, and Racial Power in Access Is Capture: How EdTech Reproduces Racial Inequality

Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 6, May/June 2026.
Anne C. Holdren
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
Abstract For decades now, scholars of quantification have been exposing the rationalist and modernist operations that lend numbers their political qualities. Yet recent anthropological scholarship has begun to show how data's ontological plasticity and messiness are constitutive of alternative political fields.
Kopper, Moisés, Knox, Hannah
openaire   +3 more sources

Debunking the Myth of the Efficacy of “Push-down Academics”: How Rigid, Teacher-Centered, Academic Early Learning Environments Dis-Empower Young Children [PDF]

, 2018
The increased emphasis on higher academic standards in Early Childhood Education has changed the instructional landscape and developed myths of quality learning.
Harmon, Flora, Viruru, Radhika
core   +1 more source

Datafication and the Development of Global Digital Civilizations

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2019
New emerging technologies and the continuous process of digitisation around the globe means a new model of civilization is emerging where society is “digitized” or “datafied”.
Rooham Jamali
doaj  

Smukke, rå og beskidte: Data som antropologisk anliggende [PDF]

, 2019
Data er i dag et socialt og kulturelt anliggende, som ikke er til at komme uden om for antropologer. Vi lever i et univers af data, et „datavers“, hvor vores kroppe og identitet i utallige sammenhænge gøres til data (Bowker 2013).
Høyer, Klaus Lindgaard, Winthereik, Brit Ross   +1 more
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