This paper introduces a distinctive approach to methods development in digital social
research called 'interface methods'. We begin by discussing various methodological …

This chapter does two things. First, it provides a rationale for the book's focus on social
media data mining. Then it describes in detail what social media data mining is. As the …

First there was the earthquake and then came the tsunami. Hours passed and stories about
the Fukushima nuclear plant started: no power; no cooling; overheating; hydrogen …

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 …

This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of
transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by …

Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling
with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and …

Advocates of indoor vertical farming have pitched the enterprise as key to the future of food,
an opportunity to use technological innovation to increase local food production, bolster …

Data is the new raw material of the 21st century; it allows citizens to hold governments to
account, drives improvements in public services by informing choice, and provides a …

The article focuses on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages. Our claim is that to
examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and …

How do actors innovate markets in cases of perceived market failures? This paper's aim is to
examine what happens when a market is innovated or, as we call it,'redevised'in situations …