Educational institutions and governing practices are increasingly augmented with digital
database technologies that function as new kinds of policy instruments. This article surveys …

From US-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics
of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to …

Big data, algorithms, data mining, analytics, machine learning and AI have become some of
the most significant technical developments and concepts of recent years. Today's most …

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

In this analytical essay, part of Harvard Educational Review's symposium on Platform
Studies in Education, Ben Williamson, Kalervo N. Gulson, Carlo Perrotta, and Kevin …

Despite improved digital access to scholarly knowledge in recent decades, scholarly
communication remains exclusively document-based. In this form, scholarly knowledge is …

Universities are increasingly organized and managed through digital data. The collection,
processing and dissemination of Higher Education data is enabled by complex new data …

In this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world
not only with new methods, but with a new approach to methodology itself. Fundamental …

What would data science look like if its key critics were engaged to help improve it, and how
might critiques of data science improve with an approach that considers the day-to-day …

It is arguably human nature—and most certainly bureaucratic nature—to want to quantify our
successes and failures. The ability to calculate a numerical value to represent the progress …