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Uncovering Edtech's Embedded Values: Making the Case for Socio‐Technical Audits in Ethnographic Inquiry

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on three ethnographic studies of secondary schools in England, this article makes a case for “socio‐technical audits”—a method combining technological walkthroughs with observations, workshops, and interviews—as part of ethnographic inquiry. A case example is presented to illustrate how the integration of socio‐technical audits enables
Louise Couceiro, Rebecca Eynon, Laura Hakimi   +2 more
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Big Data Discourses| Reframing Datafication: News Media Discourses on Big Data and AI

International Journal of Communication
This article examines how the news media reshape discourses on technology, focusing on datafication between 2019 and 2024—from the decline of big data to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative tools such as ChatGPT. Media narratives now
Maria Cristina Paganoni, Gastón Becerra
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Teacher accountability, datafication and evaluation: A case for reimagining schooling

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
The purpose of this commentary is to push the boundaries (real and perceived) of how we think about teacher accountability, education and the purpose of schooling in contemporary times. It takes as a starting point a view that recent changes to the Every
Jessica Holloway
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Opening the black box of data-based school monitoring: Data infrastructures, flows and practices in state education agencies

Big Data & Society, 2019
Contributing to a rising number of Critical Data Studies which seek to understand and critically reflect on the increasing datafication and digitalisation of governance, this paper focuses on the field of school monitoring, in particular on digital data ...
Sigrid Hartong, Annina Förschler
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How Are Skills Changing with Digital Technologies? Clarifying Boundary Conditions in Management Research

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 3744-3779, September 2026.
Abstract This article contributes to discussions about the future of work by providing a systematic review of the broad yet fragmented management literature on how skills are changing with digital technologies (DTs). Our aim was to understand the nature of scholarly engagement with this relationship to inform a future research agenda.
Damian Grimshaw, Marcela Miozzo
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Theorising Digital Dispossession: An Enquiry into the Datafication of Accumulation by Dispossession

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of work and labour was being deeply pondered upon. The demarcations that emerged out of this juncture led to a bifurcation of labour into ‘essential workers’, who are pushed into precarity from the
Aishik Saha
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Perspectives to Definition of Big Data: A Mapping Study and Discussion

Journal of Innovation Management, 2016
Big data is an emerging research area where common terminology is still evolving. Different perspectives to the research area and terminology exist, but a common definition for big data does not exist.
Ossi Ylijoki, Jari Porras
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Sleep‐trackers in the wild: A faceted taxonomy for information and interaction design

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 8, Page 1032-1050, August 2026.
Abstract Consumer‐grade sleep‐tracking technologies (CSTs) have brought sleep into everyday data practices, reframing it from a clinical concern into a site of personal optimization and reflection. Yet existing taxonomies of sleep‐tracking often medicalize users and overlook the complexity of sleep‐tracking technologies. This paper presents SleepTax, a
Sanonda Datta Gupta, Jaime Snyder, John S. Seberger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resistance in the data-driven society

Internet Policy Review
Individuals and groups increasingly seek to resist the harms and risks of a data-driven society. This essay explores the possibility of individual and collective resistance vis-à-vis datafication, drawing on examples from across the globe.
Stefania Milan
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