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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.

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"Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana
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Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

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"Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

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"Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395…
AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign

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"Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement

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"The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.

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"Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu (@miehumie) et al. doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.

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"The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure" by @nina_amelung
doi.org/10.1177/205395…
How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.

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"Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

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"Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by @MahaRafiAtal & Pamela Mondliwa (@Nqojela) doi.org/10.1177/205395…
Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.

🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society:

Why the smart home failed
Ethnographic insights from Goulden & Cameron reveal how everyday resistance quietly unraveled Big Tech’s dream.
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"Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…
From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData