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(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
wiley   +1 more source

Educators’ understandings of digital classroom tools and datafication: perceptions from higher education faculty

Research in Learning Technology
Research has shown that critical data literacies development for educators is seldom a core component of most campus conversations about datafication, even as extractive, datafied systems become pervasive throughout the higher education sector.
Samantha Szcyrek, Bonnie Stewart, Erica Miklas   +2 more
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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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The ARCANE Project: how an ecological dynamics framework can enhance performance assessment and prediction in football [PDF]

, 2016
This paper discusses how an ecological dynamics framework can be implemented to interpret data, design practice tasks and interpret athletic performance in collective sports, exemplified here by research ideas within the Augmented peRCeption ANalysis ...
Araújo, Duarte, Couceiro, Micael S., Davids, Keith, Dias, Gonçalo   +3 more
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Map Room Conversations

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this introduction to the Special Section entitled ‘Map Room Conversations’ we explain the origins of the collection in a set of sessions co‐organised by the authors at the 2024 Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The co‐authored papers in this collection reflect on these conversations, and the
Stephen Legg, Katherine Parker
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Big Data in the Context of Studying Problems of Modern Society

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методи, 2020
The article is devoted to the analysis of the social consequences of the rapid dissemination of big data that gradually leads to the formation of a new phase of the evolutionary development of civilization - a datafied society.
Olga Kyslova
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
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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Auditability in the Digital Age

International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this Perspective essay, I offer some provocations about the future of auditing. I suggest that auditing is currently undergoing technological change in its practice unlike any other in its history in which notions of evidence and auditability have become fluid.
Michael Power
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Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach

Big Data & Society
Studying 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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Open Source, Social Activism and "Necessary Trade-offs" in the Digital Enclosure: A Case Study of Platform Co-operative, Loomio.org

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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