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New 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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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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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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Vigilant Algorithms and the Contagion of Risk in Automated Opioid Risk Assessment
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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Teacher accountability, datafication and evaluation: A case for reimagining schooling
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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Theorising Digital Dispossession: An Enquiry into the Datafication of Accumulation by Dispossession
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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Aggregations of the opaque : Rethinking datafication and e-waste
This paper points to phenomena that are undeniably intrinsic to the datafied society, yet that themselves belie the dream/nightmare of total control through datafication: electronic waste (e-waste) and its recycling.
Hoyng, Rolien Susanne
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Perspectives to Definition of Big Data: A Mapping Study and Discussion
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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The human desire to survive death is not new. Religious traditions, philosophical systems, memorial practices, and popular culture have long offered ways of imagining continuity beyond biological life, whether through heaven, reincarnation, ancestral presence, symbolic immortality, or cultural remembrance (Bhargava; Cave; Iglesias et al.; Lifton; Nairn;
Angelique Nairn, Deepti Bhargava
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Resistance in the data-driven society
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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