There is nothing that #metrics, #datafication and #surveillance can't make worse, including one of my greatest pleasures, reading... #books
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
🎥 In this new research video, Dr Asif Ali Akhtar reveals how #Pakistan’s high-tech biometric databases were actually built on colonial-era blueprints of control:
youtu.be/j_0F9UCHKHA?...
#Datafication #Cybersecurity #partofLSE #biometricdata #NADRA #surveillance #postcolonial
RE: https://sciences.social/@zemki/116080670158597467
I’m glad this great article is part of our special issue on #datafication alongside with fantastic contributions on critical data studies, network sampling and sustainable data practices: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1
📢 Journal Article Accepted
#EcoTechnoPolitics: Towards #PlanetaryThinking Beyond Digital-Green #TwinTransitions
#Preprint #OpenAccess #OpenScience #GreenWashing #Datafication www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
"’Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space” by Tanja Plasil, Gunhild Tøndel, Mads Dahl Fjesen, and Odd Morten Mjøen.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#quality #datafication
In many fields, everything must become “data.” Complex experiences, behaviors, and social realities are compressed into numbers for the sake of analysis. But measurement changes what is measured: subtlety disappears, nuance collapses, and insight gets lost in quantification.
#datafication
🤝 Our story highlights organisations driving policies & standards within One Health
#datafication & One Health integration in biobanking is enhanced via the #EvolveBBMRI project.
Leibniz Institute DSMZ supports sustainable sharing of resources #NagoyaProtocol
🔗 Story: buff.ly/zwIJqqh
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📻 Recently, I had a great chat with Linda Morra from @ubishops.bsky.social
on her show, #GettingLitWithLinda. We talked about how #datafication reframes issues of consent, and why libraries are more important than ever.
▶️ Have a listen here:
#bigdata #wethedata #datafication #humanrights
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💫We are delighted to welcome our new fellows: Yi Gu, Tsvetelina Hristova, and Ricky Wichum, who will be joining us for the academic year 2025/26!
🔗For more information, check out our website:
khk.rwth-aachen.de/current-fell...
#core_rwth #rwthaachen #research #data #datafication #computing
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unreal, the disconnect. the harm to mental health advocacy, data protections, authenticity in care. harming resistance to #WealthCare #datafication of human anguish. Ive better things to do than pointing this out to experts but not stopping
🚨 New Publication 🚨
"Diversity and Inclusion in Data Activism"
in @soc-forum.bsky.social
#Sociology #SocialMovements #DataActivism #ContentiousData #DataJustice #DigitalDivide #DigitalInequality #KnowledgeGap #Datafication #DataLiteracy #InternetFreedom
jaredmwr.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/d...
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Friction and Promise in Data Labor" by Minna Ruckenstein + Tuukka Lehtiniemi #datafication #friction #datalabor #prison #human-fueled #automation #aspiration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In our latest post in the "Who's holding the remote control?" series myself and @iainh1.bsky.social explore the impacts on civic life and society of pervasive personalised AI.
medium.com/@alexbfree/w...
#mydata #empowermenttech #civicparticipation #datafication #humancentreddesign
Tomorrow 8:30 CEST at #AOM2025: @sonjaxko.bsky.social (HIIG) joins Eric Monteiro, @njaholten.bsky.social, Sirkka Jarvenpaa & José Parra-Moyanoto to discuss how #workplace #datafication can support #labor organising, workers’ rights & #democracy at #work.
👉 aom2025.eventscribe.net/agenda.asp?s...
Too often, data is seen as a technical asset, while its silent influence on culture, accountability, and decision-making is underestimated—what counts is not just the data flow, but how deeply it reshapes the way an organization thinks.
#Datafication
Wen das nicht aufschreckt, dem kann nicht mehr geholfen werden.
“Wissenschaft als datafizierter Raum”
von Renke Siems @RenkeSiems
www.melusinapress.lu/read/1981-5838-wadr/sect...
#datafication #academicchatter #surveillance #überwachung
⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by @puellaludens.bsky.social!
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology
🕸️ Valérie Schafer has written this beautiful piece on ”The Datafied Web“ – RESAW Conference at Siegen University (4-6 June 2025) 👉 u-si.de/csXM5. Enjoy!
🔗 datafiedweb.net
#RESAW25 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication
Une enquête passionnante au croisement de la quantification, de la datafication et des sciences sociales. À lire pour mieux comprendre comment le monde se chiffre… et pour qui.
👉 Disponible dès aujourd’hui sur notre site et en librairie
#sciencessociales #miseennombre #quantification #datafication
I did a webinar last week at the Digital Trade & Data Governance Hub, George Washington University titled "Can we put a price on data? Understanding data in the global economy"
#digitaleconomy #datafication #data #assetization
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS7...
Pleased to provide a critical (& perhaps unpopular) take on edtech in schools & key concerns to media outlet Education HQ - educationhq.com/news/are-we-... #edtech #surveillance #datafication
Exciting news! Our book "Les publics de données: penser la datafication de la société" [“Data publics: Understanding datafication of society”] is out and in open access (also available on paper): pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/le... #datafication #datapublics #données @labcmo.bsky.social
We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness?
By @floreani.bsky.social, @theguardian.com
#data #selftracking #datafication #bodytracking #surveillance #selfimprovement
Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
Photograph of a fence demarcating the border between two countries. By Mussi Katz, under a free Flickr License: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mussikatz/50758919936/ .
What #interventions can be designed to limit the #datafication of #mobility?
👀#Manifesto by Pelizza @drkiarastorm Olivieri Trauttmansdorff & van Rossem against essentializing + securitizing #alterity through #datafication: https://doi.org/pcgr
#borders #ProcessCitizens
Just out! Article on "Architectures of #assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of #datafication in UK #highereducation" w/ @jkom.bsky.social & Sam Sellar in New Media & Society #platforms #edtech #digital #bigtech
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The lecture series will feature talks by @gavinmueller.bsky.social, @jenmadelene.bsky.social, @menkman.bsky.social, David Gauthier, @ulises-mejias.bsky.social, Alina Gombert, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, and @danmcquillan.bsky.social
#Unstitching #Datafication #CRC1187 #Luddism #DataColonialism
More than glad to share our Manifesto on the #Datafication of #Mobility Across #Borders by ERC ProcessingCitizenship, PI A. Pelizza, published by @estsjournal.bsky.social Thanks to ESTS editorial team & the co-authors: we could not have aspired to a better conclusion! estsjournal.org/index.php/es...
CDT & Coworker.org’s recent report dives into how workers engage with #workplace #datafication when given the chance to learn and deliberate about its impacts. What do they think about surveillance & data collection at work? Find out: cdt.org/insights/wha...
Wondrous Transformations by Alison Li; Transfigured by Sophie Grace Chappell; Working with Autistic Transgender and Non-binary People, edited by Marianthi Kourti.
Wild Thought, by Claude Levi-Strauss; Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein; Before Mardi Gras by Graham Willet.
Freedom: A Disease Without Cure by Slavoj Zizek; Surplus Enjoyment by Slavoj Zizek; Precarious Life: The Powers of Death and Mourning by Judith Butler.
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It's the 10th of the third month, so here's the last 10 books I purchased
#booksky #trans #LGBTQIA+ #neurodivergent #myth #structuralism #philosophy #datafication #feminism #queer #criticaltheory #queerhistory