Mikkel Flyverbom
Biographic Data
| ID | 285785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikkel Flyverbom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikkel |
| FAMILY NAME | Flyverbom |
| SIGNATURE | FLYVERBOM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9465-6219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Theorizing data analysis platforms – digital refractions and reconfigurations of pasts, presents and futures
Digital platforms are a pervasive force in the transformation of business, organization and social order, but also an evolving phenomenon in need of further conceptualization and detailed analysis. This article offers a theorization and analytical framework for the study of a sub-type of digital platforms that we may think of as data analysis platforms, and which play an increasingly important role in organizations, business, and society more bro…
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements
Policy discussions and corporate strategies on machine learning are increasingly championing data reuse as a key element in digital transformations. These aspirations are often coupled with a focus on responsibility, ethics and transparency, as well as emergent forms of regulation that seek to set demands for corporate conduct and the protection of civic rights. And the Protective measures include methods of traceability and assessments of 'good'…
Datafied corporate political activity: Updating corporate advocacy for a digital era
Digital transformations have significant consequences for organizational attempts to shape their environments. Our focus is on how corporate political activity evolves in ways that require us to pay more attention to how information gets structured in digital spaces, and on how information ecosystems operate and shape strategic communication activities in organizational settings. We outline these digital transformations, offer a focus on corporat…
Organizational Transparency: Conceptualizations, Conditions, and Consequences
Transparency is an increasingly prominent area of research that offers valuable insights for organizational studies. However, conceptualizations of transparency are rarely subject to critical scrutiny and thus their relevance remains unclear. In most accounts, transparency is associated with the sharing of information and the perceived quality of the information shared. This narrow focus on information and quality, however, overlooks the dynamics…
Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
Meshes of Surveillance, Prediction, and Infrastructure: On the Cultural and Commercial Consequences of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms like Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube rely on mass data collection, algorithmic forms of prediction, and the development of closed digital systems. Seemingly technical and trivial, such operational and infrastructural features have both commercial and cultural consequences in need of attention. As with any other kinds of infrastructure, the surveillance practices and digital ecosystems that are now installed and solidified will hav…
Datafied knowledge production: Introduction to the special theme
Framing datafication as new form of knowledge production has become a trope in both academic and commercial contexts. This special theme examines and ultimately rejects the familiar grand claims of datafication, to instead pay attention to emergent conversations that seek to take a more nuanced stock of the status and nature of datafied knowledge production. The articles in this special theme thus engage with datafied knowledge production through…
Datastructuring-Organizing and curating digital traces into action
Digital transformations and processes of "datafication" fundamentally reshape how information is produced, circulated and given meaning. In this article, we provide a concept of "datastructuring" which seeks to capture this reshaping as both a product of and productive of social activity. To do this we focus on (1) how new forms of social action map onto and are enabled by technological changes related to datafication, and (2) how new forms of da…
Big data as governmentality in international development: Digital traces, algorithms, and altered visibilities
Statistics have long shaped the field of visibility for the governance of development projects. The introduction of big data has altered the field of visibility. Employing Dean's “analytics of government” framework, we analyze two cases—malaria tracking in Kenya and monitoring of food prices in Indonesia. Our analysis shows that big data introduces a bias toward particular types of visualizations. What problems are being made visible through big …
Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices: Table 1
The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance. The aim of this paper is to outline a research agenda that can be used to raise a broader set of sociological and practice-oriented questions about the increasing datafication …
Sunlight in cyberspace? On transparency as a form of ordering
While we witness a growing belief in transparency as an ideal solution to a wide range of societal problems, we know less about the practical workings of transparency as it guides conduct in organizational and regulatory settings. This article argues that transparency efforts involve much more than the provision of information and other forms of 'sunlight', and are rather a matter of managing visibilities than providing insight and clarity. Build…
Introduction: Logics of transparency in late modernity
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
The politics of transparency and the calibration of knowledge in the digital age
This article analyses the complex work of human actors and technologies that goes into producing that which appears to us as 'transparent'. Drawing on studies of governance and surveillance, affordance theory, actor-network theory and sociological work on numbers, we analyse the role played by mediating technologies in the production of transparency and relate it to the question of how knowledge is created, recycled and modified in organizational…
Globalization as it happens: On globalizing assemblages in tax planning
Globalization is usually understood as a structural, epochal condition altering the environment in which people, organizations, and societies operate. But such accounts offer little insight into the infrastructures, practices, and connections that facilitate the production of the global. This article uses findings from an ethnographic study of tax planning to show how mundane practices and connectivities forge and organize global operations, and …
Hybrid networks and the global politics of the digital revolution - a practice-oriented, relational and agnostic approach
The rapid growth of internet users and the importance of networked technologies for most spheres of life raise questions about how to foster and govern the digital revolution on a global scale. Focusing on internet governance and the use of ICTs for development purposes, I provide a multi-sited, ethnographic exploration of two UN-based multi-stakeholder arrangements - comprising governments, business and civil society groups - that have contribut…
The Internet Imaginaire
The politics of transparency and the calibration of knowledge in the digital age
This article analyses the complex work of human actors and technologies that goes into producing that which appears to us as 'transparent'. Drawing on studies of governance and surveillance, affordance theory, actor-network theory and sociological work on numbers, we analyse the role played by mediating technologies in the production of transparency and relate it to the question of how knowledge is created, recycled and modified in organizational…
Introduction: Logics of transparency in late modernity
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices: Table 1
The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance. The aim of this paper is to outline a research agenda that can be used to raise a broader set of sociological and practice-oriented questions about the increasing datafication …
Sunlight in cyberspace? On transparency as a form of ordering
While we witness a growing belief in transparency as an ideal solution to a wide range of societal problems, we know less about the practical workings of transparency as it guides conduct in organizational and regulatory settings. This article argues that transparency efforts involve much more than the provision of information and other forms of 'sunlight', and are rather a matter of managing visibilities than providing insight and clarity. Build…
Datastructuring-Organizing and curating digital traces into action
Digital transformations and processes of "datafication" fundamentally reshape how information is produced, circulated and given meaning. In this article, we provide a concept of "datastructuring" which seeks to capture this reshaping as both a product of and productive of social activity. To do this we focus on (1) how new forms of social action map onto and are enabled by technological changes related to datafication, and (2) how new forms of da…
Meshes of Surveillance, Prediction, and Infrastructure: On the Cultural and Commercial Consequences of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms like Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube rely on mass data collection, algorithmic forms of prediction, and the development of closed digital systems. Seemingly technical and trivial, such operational and infrastructural features have both commercial and cultural consequences in need of attention. As with any other kinds of infrastructure, the surveillance practices and digital ecosystems that are now installed and solidified will hav…
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements
Policy discussions and corporate strategies on machine learning are increasingly championing data reuse as a key element in digital transformations. These aspirations are often coupled with a focus on responsibility, ethics and transparency, as well as emergent forms of regulation that seek to set demands for corporate conduct and the protection of civic rights. And the Protective measures include methods of traceability and assessments of 'good'…
Datafied knowledge production: Introduction to the special theme
Framing datafication as new form of knowledge production has become a trope in both academic and commercial contexts. This special theme examines and ultimately rejects the familiar grand claims of datafication, to instead pay attention to emergent conversations that seek to take a more nuanced stock of the status and nature of datafied knowledge production. The articles in this special theme thus engage with datafied knowledge production through…
Big data as governmentality in international development: Digital traces, algorithms, and altered visibilities
Statistics have long shaped the field of visibility for the governance of development projects. The introduction of big data has altered the field of visibility. Employing Dean's “analytics of government” framework, we analyze two cases—malaria tracking in Kenya and monitoring of food prices in Indonesia. Our analysis shows that big data introduces a bias toward particular types of visualizations. What problems are being made visible through big …
Hybrid networks and the global politics of the digital revolution - a practice-oriented, relational and agnostic approach
The rapid growth of internet users and the importance of networked technologies for most spheres of life raise questions about how to foster and govern the digital revolution on a global scale. Focusing on internet governance and the use of ICTs for development purposes, I provide a multi-sited, ethnographic exploration of two UN-based multi-stakeholder arrangements - comprising governments, business and civil society groups - that have contribut…
The Internet Imaginaire
Hybrid networks and the global politics of the digital revolution - a practice-oriented, relational and agnostic approach
The rapid growth of internet users and the importance of networked technologies for most spheres of life raise questions about how to foster and govern the digital revolution on a global scale. Focusing on internet governance and the use of ICTs for development purposes, I provide a multi-sited, ethnographic exploration of two UN-based multi-stakeholder arrangements - comprising governments, business and civil society groups - that have contribut…
Globalization as it happens: On globalizing assemblages in tax planning
Globalization is usually understood as a structural, epochal condition altering the environment in which people, organizations, and societies operate. But such accounts offer little insight into the infrastructures, practices, and connections that facilitate the production of the global. This article uses findings from an ethnographic study of tax planning to show how mundane practices and connectivities forge and organize global operations, and …
The politics of transparency and the calibration of knowledge in the digital age
This article analyses the complex work of human actors and technologies that goes into producing that which appears to us as 'transparent'. Drawing on studies of governance and surveillance, affordance theory, actor-network theory and sociological work on numbers, we analyse the role played by mediating technologies in the production of transparency and relate it to the question of how knowledge is created, recycled and modified in organizational…
Sunlight in cyberspace? On transparency as a form of ordering
While we witness a growing belief in transparency as an ideal solution to a wide range of societal problems, we know less about the practical workings of transparency as it guides conduct in organizational and regulatory settings. This article argues that transparency efforts involve much more than the provision of information and other forms of 'sunlight', and are rather a matter of managing visibilities than providing insight and clarity. Build…
Introduction: Logics of transparency in late modernity
This special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory investigates the phenomenon of transparency, including the spectacle that accompanies transparency projects launched by contemporary organizations and institutions, be they public, private or inbetweens. The title ‘Logics of transparency in late modernity: paradoxes, mediation and governance’ alludes to the historicity of the transparency ideal, its paradoxes, forms of mediation and gove…
Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices: Table 1
The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance. The aim of this paper is to outline a research agenda that can be used to raise a broader set of sociological and practice-oriented questions about the increasing datafication …
Big data as governmentality in international development: Digital traces, algorithms, and altered visibilities
Statistics have long shaped the field of visibility for the governance of development projects. The introduction of big data has altered the field of visibility. Employing Dean's “analytics of government” framework, we analyze two cases—malaria tracking in Kenya and monitoring of food prices in Indonesia. Our analysis shows that big data introduces a bias toward particular types of visualizations. What problems are being made visible through big …
Datastructuring-Organizing and curating digital traces into action
Digital transformations and processes of "datafication" fundamentally reshape how information is produced, circulated and given meaning. In this article, we provide a concept of "datastructuring" which seeks to capture this reshaping as both a product of and productive of social activity. To do this we focus on (1) how new forms of social action map onto and are enabled by technological changes related to datafication, and (2) how new forms of da…
Organizational Transparency: Conceptualizations, Conditions, and Consequences
Transparency is an increasingly prominent area of research that offers valuable insights for organizational studies. However, conceptualizations of transparency are rarely subject to critical scrutiny and thus their relevance remains unclear. In most accounts, transparency is associated with the sharing of information and the perceived quality of the information shared. This narrow focus on information and quality, however, overlooks the dynamics…
Human Rights in the Age of Platforms
Meshes of Surveillance, Prediction, and Infrastructure: On the Cultural and Commercial Consequences of Digital Platforms
Digital platforms like Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube rely on mass data collection, algorithmic forms of prediction, and the development of closed digital systems. Seemingly technical and trivial, such operational and infrastructural features have both commercial and cultural consequences in need of attention. As with any other kinds of infrastructure, the surveillance practices and digital ecosystems that are now installed and solidified will hav…
Datafied knowledge production: Introduction to the special theme
Framing datafication as new form of knowledge production has become a trope in both academic and commercial contexts. This special theme examines and ultimately rejects the familiar grand claims of datafication, to instead pay attention to emergent conversations that seek to take a more nuanced stock of the status and nature of datafied knowledge production. The articles in this special theme thus engage with datafied knowledge production through…
Datafied corporate political activity: Updating corporate advocacy for a digital era
Digital transformations have significant consequences for organizational attempts to shape their environments. Our focus is on how corporate political activity evolves in ways that require us to pay more attention to how information gets structured in digital spaces, and on how information ecosystems operate and shape strategic communication activities in organizational settings. We outline these digital transformations, offer a focus on corporat…
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements
Policy discussions and corporate strategies on machine learning are increasingly championing data reuse as a key element in digital transformations. These aspirations are often coupled with a focus on responsibility, ethics and transparency, as well as emergent forms of regulation that seek to set demands for corporate conduct and the protection of civic rights. And the Protective measures include methods of traceability and assessments of 'good'…
Theorizing data analysis platforms – digital refractions and reconfigurations of pasts, presents and futures
Digital platforms are a pervasive force in the transformation of business, organization and social order, but also an evolving phenomenon in need of further conceptualization and detailed analysis. This article offers a theorization and analytical framework for the study of a sub-type of digital platforms that we may think of as data analysis platforms, and which play an increasingly important role in organizations, business, and society more bro…
Sociology (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · E-Government and Public Services (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Data science (5 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 works) · Information Systems Theories and Implementation (5 works)