Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication
Nordicom Review, 2021 Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation.
Andreassen Rikke +2 more
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Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies
Big Data & Society, 2023 Critiques of data colonialism and surveillance capitalism focus on data collected from online behavior. We propose that analytical concepts from these critiques—namely, regimes of value and patterns of alienation and attunement —could be applied more ...
Gwen Ottinger, Kelly Bronson, Dawn Nafus
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Datafication from Below: Epistemology, Ambivalences, Challenges
Tecnoscienza, 2019 The “imperative of data” seems to be at the core of current debates concerning relationships between technology and society, as well as the status of knowledge, freedom and identity.
Giuseppina Pellegrino +2 more
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Decolonizing Information Narratives: Entangled Apocalyptics, Algorithmic Racism and the Myths of History [PDF]
, 2017 In what follows, some contemporary narratives about ‘the information society’ are interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to constructing a ‘counter-narrative’ purporting to demonstrate the embeddedness of ...
Ali, Syed Mustafa
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Big data and humanitarian supply networks: Can Big Data give voice to the voiceless? [PDF]
, 2013 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © 2013 IEEE.Billions of US dollars are spent each year in emergency aid to save lives and alleviate the suffering of those affected by ...
Lycett, M, Monaghan, A
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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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"The dearest of our possessions": applying Floridi's information privacy concept in models of information behavior and information literacy [PDF]
, 2020 This conceptual paper argues for the value of an approach to privacy in the digital information environment informed by Luciano Floridi's philosophy of information and information ethics.
Bawden D. +25 more
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Some Reflections on the Interface between Professional Machine Translation Literacy and Data Literacy [PDF]
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2023 Due to the widespread use of data-driven neural machine translation, both by professional translators and layperson users, an adequate machine translation literacy on the part of the users of this technology is becoming more and more important.
Ralph Krüger
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The Feeling of Numbers: emotions in everyday engagements with data and their visualisation [PDF]
, 2017 This paper highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with ...
Aiello G +30 more
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, 2018 The present study argues that political communication on social media is mediated by a platform's digital architecture, defined as the technical protocols that enable, constrain, and shape user behavior in a virtual space.
Bossetta, Michael
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