It has been the historic responsibility of the social sciences to investigate human societies.
Fulfilling this responsibility requires social theories, measurement models and social data …

This article outlines some basic foundations and academic controversies about Web 2.0
surveillance. Contemporary web platforms, such as Google or Facebook store, process …

Algorithms, once obscure objects of technical art, have lately been subject to considerable
popular and scholarly scrutiny. What does it mean to adopt the algorithm as an object of …

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become
tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by …

Algorithms, or rather algorithmic actions, are seen as problematic because they are
inscrutable, automatic, and subsumed in the flow of daily practices. Yet, they are also seen …

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It
deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the …

The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for
everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital …

There is no single idea of the university. Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the
university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to …

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the
human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them …

This paper is concerned with conceptions of mobility and immobility. Although I argue that
practically everything is mobile, for mobility to be analytically useful as a term we must focus …