Imprecision farming? Examining the (in) accuracy and risks of digital agriculture

O Visser, SR Sippel, L Thiemann - Journal of Rural Studies, 2021 - Elsevier
The myriad potential benefits of digital farming hinge on the promise of increased accuracy,
which allows 'doing more with less' through precise, data-driven operations. Yet, precision …

Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data

P Dourish, E Gómez Cruz - Big Data & Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Data do not speak for themselves. Data must be narrated—put to work in particular contexts,
sunk into narratives that give them shape and meaning, and mobilized as part of broader …

Just good enough data: Figuring data citizenships through air pollution sensing and data stories

J Gabrys, H Pritchard, B Barratt - Big data & society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Citizen sensing, or the use of low-cost and accessible digital technologies to monitor
environments, has contributed to new types of environmental data and data practices …

The Data Revolution: A critical analysis of big data, open data and data infrastructures

R Kitchin - 2021 - torrossa.com
Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted,
governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and …

'Real-time'air quality channels: A technology review of emerging environmental alert systems

K Schulte - Big Data & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Poor air quality is a pressing global challenge contributing to adverse health impacts around
the world. In the past decade, there has been a rapid proliferation of air quality information …

Political airs: From monitoring to attuned sensing air pollution

N Calvillo - Social studies of science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
In Madrid, as in many European cities, air pollution is known about and made accountable
through techno-scientific monitoring processes based on data, and the toxicity of the air is …

Practicing, materialising and contesting environmental data

J Gabrys - Big Data & Society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
While there are now an increasing number of studies that critically and rigorously engage
with Big Data discourses and practices, these analyses often focus on social media and …

Listening without ears: Artificial intelligence in audio mastering

T Birtchnell - Big Data & Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Since the inception of recorded music there has been a need for standards and reliability
across sound formats and listening environments. The role of the audio mastering engineer …

Data intimacies: Building infrastructures for intensified embodied encounters with air pollution

N Calvillo, E Garnett - The Sociological Review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The air is, in many urban contexts, polluted. Governments and institutions monitor particles
and gas concentrations to better understand how they perform in the light of air quality …

Tracking penguins, sensing petroleum:“Data gaps” and the politics of marine ecology in the South Atlantic

JJA Blair - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing on ethnographic research in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), this paper analyzes
how disputed oil interests become embedded in data infrastructures for environmental …