The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online social platform".
News and Research articles on Big data
News media discourses on datafication and automation have become more sensitive to data risks, but their complexity is a challenge for informing lay audiences about root causes and solutions.
The concept of surveillance is indispensable for understanding the digital age, even as it requires constant inflection.
The role of voluntary standards as intermediaries in the application of the Right to Data Portability: an empirical analysis.
The planned sharing of UK patients’ data is controversial. What lessons can be learned for ethical and legal governance of health data?
The paper discusses the novel concept of critical big data literacy and presents first findings on online data literacy tools and their effects.
Once upon a time, a machine began telling us the stories of our lives… and humanity lived happily ever after.
In the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, it is timely to review the state of the debate about the impact of data-driven elections and to identify key questions that require academic research and regulatory response. The papers in this collection, by some of the world’s most prominent elections researchers, offer that assessment.
This article highlights what we know about the empirical effects of data-campaigning in political campaigns and how those findings fail to live up to claims about its power.
Big crisis data presuppose the ongoing calculation and valuation of (transient) events, producing both singular and networked events and actors.
This special issue looks at studies that scrutinise big data and power in concrete fields of application. It brings together scholars from different disciplines shedding light on the fields of agriculture, education, border control and consumer policy.
Agribusinesses are buying into big data for its predictive powers, bypassing farmers and aggregating previously proprietary farming data. Given this power asymmetry, what are the ethics of the use of big data in big agriculture?
Consumer protection law can assist EU data protection law in empowering data subjects whose rights are challenged by big data.
How does the (dis)empowering surveillance practice of social sorting using big data impact on the notion of borders in Europe?
How should the EU regulate the expanding role of for-profit vendors in school operations making use of big data technologies?
Digital rights blogger Fabian Warislohner takes a critical look at Estonia's fast-track digitalisation strategy and compares it to Germany's track record.
Medical insurance companies, doctors and medical researchers face-off over the increasing use of big data in healthcare. Here is why.
The representatives of internet firms at this year's Internet Governance Forum referred to transparency, human rights and privacy. But when searching for those guilty of surveillance, they exclusively pointed to governments and not to their own policies.
Early warnings by German government officials at the Munich Security Conference proved true. On February 3, the International League of Human Rights in Germany, together with the Chaos Computer Club and civic group digitalcourage filed a criminal complaint against the German government for not acting on the mass surveillance by intelligence services.
The legal and moral obligations of private online operators collecting and processing large amounts of data are unclear. Researcher Primavera de Filippi explains why.