In this article, we discuss the ethical issues raised by large-scale online social experiments using the controversy surrounding the so-called Facebook emotional contagion study as our prime example (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014). We describe how different parties approach the issues raised...

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". The article takes a co- productive stance....

This story is inspired by the growing feasibility of Decentralised AutonomousCorporations (DACs), operating by means of distributed blockchain technologies. The story isset in the near future where a decentralised corporation - powered by machine-learningalgorithms and fed on an unending stream...

This paper argues that data literacy today needs to go beyond the mere skills to use data. Instead, it suggests the concept of an extended critical big data literacy that places awareness and critical reflection of big data systems at its centre. The presented research findings give first...

In May 2021, the UK National Health Service (NHS) proposed a scheme-called General Practice Data for Planning Research (GPDPR)-for sharing patients' data. Under that system, a patient who does not wish to participate must actively opt out of their data being shared with third parties for...

This paper enlightens an understudied aspect of the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Right to Data Portability (RtDP), introducing a framework to analyse empirically the voluntary data portability standards adopted by various data controllers. The first section...

The concept of surveillance is vital for a digital era, especially considering that the term surveillance is several centuries old. It has been modified over time to fit new circumstances. Today, when surveillance has become part of the very infrastructure of contemporary societies, the task of...

Public discourses have become sensitive to the ethical challenges of big data and artificial intelligence, as scandals about privacy invasion, algorithmic discrimination, and manipulation in digital platforms repeatedly make news headlines. However, it remains largely unexplored how exactly...

Facing general conceptions of the power effects of big data, this thematic edition is interested in studies that scrutinise big data and power in concrete fields of application. It brings together scholars from different disciplines who analyse the fields agriculture, education, border control...

Big data refers to the collection and aggregation of large quantities of data produced by and about people, things or the interactions between them. With the advent of cloud computing, specialised data centres with powerful computational hardware and software resources can be used for processing...