Big Data & Society
Open access peer-reviewed journal connecting debates on emerging Big Data practices & how they reconfigure academic, social, industry, & government relations.
- 📢 New in Big Data & Society Zimmer traces links between the Enron email corpus and contemporary foundation models, using the concept of “model collapse” to examine how AI training data shape today’s knowledge infrastructures. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- 📢A new article in Big Data & Society examines conversational AI through a Habermassian lens, arguing that systems like ChatGPT risk “colonizing” conversations: 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- 📢 New in Big Data & Society Whose voice counts? Arsenault & Kreps examine whether large language models help close participation gaps in public rulemaking. LLMs make comment-writing easier and improve comment quality—but do not improve policy comprehension. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Generative AI chatbots avoid sexism—but not ageism. Interviews with chatbots themselves reveal double standards in “political correctness” and how AI imagines users by age and gender. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #GenerativeAI #DigitalAgeism #AlgorithmicBias #STS
- New in Big Data & Society: China’s Health Code Systems weren’t seamless surveillance tools—they were patchwork assemblages held together by street-level officials doing intense accountability labor under pressure. Surveillance works through mess, not automation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
