The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized
societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces …

Menschen, die auf Displays starren.-Das Smartphone ist binnen kürzester Zeit zu einem
unentbehrlichen Medium des Selbst-und Weltbezugs für viele Menschen geworden …

This chapter considers how advertising platforms like Facebook or companies like
Cambridge Analytica leveraged vast amounts of data to produce granulated, psychographic …

Government intentions stand at the heart of debates about how big data can and should be
used in the Global South. This paper provides new insights by examining the political and …

A operacionalização de Big Data e de algoritmos tem vindo a dominar o panorama digital
atual (Boyd & Crawford, 2012; Cukier & Myer-Schonberger, 2013; Coté, Gerbaudo & Pybus …

This paper is concerned with the ethical aspects of museum metadata. These are not always
immediately evident when working with the metadata related to museum objects, although, I …

The potential wide applications of big data analytics have created a high demand for data
analysts in various industries, including business, healthcare, bioinformatics, politics, and …

How a social science of big data would look like? In this article, we exemplify such a social
science through a number of cases. We start our discussion with the epistemic qualities of …

This chapter presents the main features of developing data-driven processes in Russia and
their social influence. First, the author analyses the development of the concept of Big Data …

O artigo propõe uma reflexão crítica sobre as implicações epistemológicas, metodológicas e
teórico-conceituais das pesquisas baseadas no Big Data–especialmente em dados de …