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Governing Credit in the Digital Age: Public Perceptions and Engagement in China's Credit Systems
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a global trend toward embedding personal credit systems and their scoring mechanisms within broader governance infrastructures. A prominent and controversial example is China's Social Credit System (SCS), which plays a central role in the country's data‐driven financial and social governance.
Mo Chen +2 more
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Sociologisk ForskningDespite dominant technology discourses focusing on novelty, growth, speed and effectiveness, the sociologically informed analyses of datafication have, to some extent implicitly, emphasised brokenness and glitches as productive and inherent elements of ...
Magdalena Kania Lundholm
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From data politics to the contentious politics of data
Big Data & Society, 2019 This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society. Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion of “data politics” by exploring what we call the “contentious ...
Davide Beraldo, Stefania Milan
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While scholarship on the digital welfare state has effectively critiqued the rise of ‘digital dystopias’ in consolidated welfare systems, it has paid insufficient attention to how digitalization interacts with the structural fragmentation characteristic of many states in the Global South.
Viviana Ponce de León Solís
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Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach
Big Data & SocietyStudying datafication focusing on the microlevel of everyday life poses epistemological and methodological challenges. Indeed, the black-boxed nature of algorithms makes data inaccessible and unintelligible to the researcher.
Gaia Amadori, Giovanna Mascheroni
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Vigilant Algorithms and the Contagion of Risk in Automated Opioid Risk Assessment
Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 7, September 2026.ABSTRACT Amid the ongoing opioid crisis, U.S. health systems have extended prescription monitoring interfaces with proprietary reports that provide clinicians with algorithmic risk scores to guide opioid decisions. However, little is known about how such tools shape clinical encounters, professional authority and accountability in everyday care.
Amelie Lange, Benjamin Lipp
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Big Data & SocietyOur paper is a case study of the making of data-driven healthcare and anticipation work done by developer-experts in a project for implementation of an integrated patient data management platform in Finland.
Ilpo Helén, Heta Tarkkala
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 983-1002, September 2026.Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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TapuyaNew methodological approaches to the datafication of reality have emerged in recent years from fields such as Critical Data Studies and Digital Humanities.
Víctor Hugo Ábrego
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2016 This article explores the tensions and tradeoffs facing the open source platform co-operative Loomio.org, an online tool that aims to decentralize power through deliberative decision-making.
Sam K Jackson, Kathleen M Kuehn
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