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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies.
Lucy Jenner +3 more
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In data we trust? The implications of datafication for social monitoring
Matrizes, 2017 Today there is a remarkable tolerance for Big Brother and Big Business routinely accessing citizens’ personal information also known as Big Data.
José van Dijck
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Lutter contre les violences des données issues de la datafication
CommunicationAs a result of certain datafication practices, data essentialization causes queer people to suffer invisibility in their daily lives and discrimination due to poorly calibrated datasets and associated algorithms.
Ugo Verdi
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Technofixing the Future: Ethical Side Effects of Using AI and Big Data to meet the SDGs [PDF]
, 2019 While the use of smart information systems (the combination of AI and Big Data) offer great potential for meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), they also raise a number of ethical challenges in their implementation.
Antoniou, Josephina +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.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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Property and the Construction of the Information Economy: A Neo-Polanyian Ontology [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter considers the changing roles and forms of information property within the political economy of informational capitalism. I begin with an overview of the principal methods used in law and in media and communications studies, respectively, to ...
Cohen, Julie E.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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European Perspectives on Datafication [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences SeriesDatafication is changing from the value of concept to the value of layer for the present world. It describes every aspect of our lives with data. In this paper, the researchers put the datafication in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution ...
Mihai Ciobotea, Marian Stan
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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