Deconstructing datafication’s brave new world
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12655949 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Couldry (0000-0001-8233-3287, London School of Economics and Political Science), Yu Jun (0000-0002-3143-8756, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Jun Yu (0000-0003-1922-7283, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 4473-4491 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444818775968 |
| OpenAlex | W2799457552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 38 |
As World Economic Forum’s definition of personal data as ‘the new “oil” – a valuable resource of the 21st century’ shows, large-scale data processing is increasingly considered the defining feature of contemporary economy and society. Commercial and governmental discourse on data frequently argues its benefits, and so legitimates its continuous and large-scale extraction and processing as the starting point for developments in specific industries, and potentially as the basis for societies as a whole. Against the background of the General Data Protection Regulation, this article unravels how general discourse on data covers over the social practices enabling collection of data, through the analysis of high-profile business reports and case studies of health and education sectors. We show how conceptualisation of data as having a natural basis in the everyday world protects data collection from ethical questioning while endorsing the use and free flow of data within corporate control, at the expense of its potentially negative impacts on personal autonomy and human freedom
Autonomy · Big data · Control (management · Data collection · Data science · Economics · Management · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Ethics in Clinical Research · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Bold claims about health data
Televisão e plataformas
Vigilant Algorithms and the Contagion of Risk in Automated Opioid Risk Assessment
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age
Post-Publication Gatekeeping Factors and Practices
Haavoittuvuuden kudelmat
Media mythology of the social in the contemporary society
The Dynamics of Digital Capture
Societal and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence
Communication practice in village data collection
Critical questions for Facebook’s virtual reality
Data “Objectivity” in a Time of Coronavirus
Educational futures after Covid-19
Credibility by automation
Uninvited Dinner Guests
When data became big
Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance
Tracing Data in General Practice Clinics
Digital civics in action
Dataficação da vida
Quantifying intimacy
Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology 'Solutionism
Metaphors we're colonised by? The case of data-driven educational technologies in Brazil
Infrastructures of tracking
Data agency at stake
Data and oil
Behavioral insights
A proxy for privacy uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps
Social media, context collapse and the future of data-driven populism
The Datafication and Quantification of Fashion
Mana motuhake ā‐raraunga
Appscapes in everyday life
Rethinking gaming
Experimentando con lo urbano
Unpacking China’s Social Credit System
It is an Incredibly Painstaking, Time-Taking Domain to Work in”
Data-driven public health in times of pandemic
Constructing the data economy
The Datafication of Intimacy
Practice Approaches to the Digital Transformations of Diplomacy
Between surveillance and technological solutionism
Making the future by using the future
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data
Why Organization Matters in “Algorithmic Discrimination”
Datafied childhoods
A cidade neoliberal e a soberania de dados
Examining visions of surveillance in Oculus' data and privacy policies, 2014-2020
A solidarity paradox - welfare state data in global health data economy
"Making sense of "big data
Critical companionship
Contested technology
Doing nothing does something
Smart forests and data practices
From copper mining to data extractivism? Data worth making at Chile's Data Observatory Foundation
Fabricando números
"Citizen science "from the margins
Experts' discourses of children in the context of datafication of education
Self-Tracking
Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law
Information technology and dataveillance
Big Data’s End Run around Anonymity and Consent
Experience and Education
Sorting Things Out
Infoglut
Hegel's Practical Philosophy
On Human Dignity as a Foundation for the Right to Privacy
The Biopolitical Public Domain
Trust in Numbers
Reification
Data-intensive resourcing in healthcare
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance
Wikinomics and its discontents
Computing the everyday
Examined Lives
Biomedicalization
How institutions think
Critical Questions for Big Data
Political Economy and Surveillance Theory
The Datafication of Health
Rankings and Reactivity
The diverse domains of quantified selves
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |