The capacity to understand and control one's personal data is now a crucial part of living in
contemporary society. In this sense, traditional concerns over supporting the development of …

Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic
environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the …

As datafication progressively invades all spheres of contemporary society, citizens grow
increasingly aware of the critical role of information as the new fabric of social life. This …

This chapter introduces the notion of data activism as a heuristic tool that allows
investigating how big data affect contemporary society without dismissing the democratic …

In Brazil, inequalities are visually represented in its favelas. These neighborhoods are
usually comprised of low-income informal settlements neglected by governments and often …

The last two years has marked a turning point in access to large-scale social media data for
many researchers, as platforms hobbled their APIs and made recording, archiving, and …

Gender-related violence against women and its lethal outcome, feminicide, are a serious
problem throughout the world. Official government data on gender violence and feminicide …

Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land
surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then …

This article examines 'feminist chatbots' as tools for activism through automation. Such bots
aim to engage users in automated communication on feminist concerns. The article starts …

This paper focuses on revealing how the interplay between algorithmic interactions and the
intuitive ways humans navigate digital environments can be researched through a multi …