In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and
understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in …

Critical Data Studies (CDS) explore the unique cultural, ethical, and critical challenges
posed by Big Data. Rather than treat Big Data as only scientifically empirical and therefore …

Let us start with an everyday story common to the world of internet users. It is April 2021 in
the United Kingdom. Thirty-year-old Lara is a healthy and active individual. In the evening …

Head hits cause brain damage-but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes?
Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development-does that …

Big Data promises to revolutionise the production of knowledge within and beyond science,
by enabling novel, highly efficient ways to plan, conduct, disseminate and assess research …

The distributed and global nature of data science creates challenges for evaluating the
quality, import and potential impact of the data and knowledge claims being produced. This …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied on social media by an explosion of
information disorders such as inaccurate, misleading and irrelevant information …

The availability of big data has the potential to transform many areas of the life sciences and
usher in new ways of doing research. Here, I argue that big data biology also raises …

ABSTRACT I provide a philosophical perspective on the characteristics of data-centric
research and the conceptualization of data that underpins it. The transformative features of …

The introduction discusses the idea of data journeys and its characteristics as an
investigative tool and theoretical framework for this volume and broader scholarship on data …