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“The data of care: Intergenerational lives between support and surveillance” by Zuzana Talašová
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Examines how digital care blurs support and surveillance, reshaping intergenerational life and hidden caregiving labor.
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“Reclaiming data science for just geographies: A critical approach” by Laura van Geene et al.
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Calls for decolonial, intersectional data science to challenge inequality and build more just futures.
AI doesn’t run on data alone—it runs on people.
Research on workers in Madagascar & Venezuela shows:
• Data workers actively navigate constraints
• They invest in skills + future aspirations
• Yet their work is still framed as “low-skilled”
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New in Big Data & Society: When does location data become surveillance?
A study of 1,405 Americans shows:
• Trajectory data = highest concern
• “Privacy fixes” only partly reassure
• Perceptions vary across social groups
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New in Big Data & Society 📢
How much do we trust governments to automate decisions?
Guitton et al. show: acceptance depends less on “algorithms” in general—and more on how, where, and why they’re used.
#AI #GovTech #BigDataAndSociety
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Visibility online isn’t just about reach—it’s about how it travels.
Tsinovoi & Munk show how platform structures + user practices shape different “spaces” of visibility.
#PlatformStudies #Visibility
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Today: Panel 4 Governing Digital Infrastructures: Platforms, AI, and the Public Interest uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#DataGovernance
Tomorrow: BD&S Colloquium Panel 4. Join us for a practical discussion of governance tools for platforms and AI in the public interest. uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#Policy #AI
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Platforms increasingly restrict third-party access to data—while expanding their own.
Based on 279 ToS (2012–2022), Perel et al. show how data enclosure is growing, alongside GDPR.
Implications for research access & platform power.
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LLMs are reshaping power: from persuasion to “silicon subjects” and simulated societies.
What does this mean for AI governance?
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Panel 4 speakers: Brett Aho, Annabelle Gawer, and Troels Krarup. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#STS #AI
What does it mean to govern platforms and AI in the public interest, not just for innovation narratives? Panel 4 takes a law + political economy lens. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#PlatformGovernance
Antitrust, interoperability mandates, public options, data access regimes. Panel 4 compares governance tools across sectors and jurisdictions to identify actionable mechanisms for oversight. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#DataGovernance
AI is consolidating around a few firms controlling data, compute, and distribution. Panel 4 asks what “good” AI markets look like and what governance tools can align incentives with public value. Mar 18 uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#AI #Policy
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"Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms” by Yizhang Quan.
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#algorithmicizedbody #disciplinarytheory #platforms
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 4: Governing Digital Infrastructures: Platforms, AI, and the Public Interest (Mar 18 | 15:00–16:30 GMT / 11:00 AM–12:30 PM EST) uky.zoom.us/j/83382671765
#DataGovernance #STS
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"From the virtual community to “Trust and Safety”: eBay (1995-2007) and the rise of platform governance” by Tomás Guarna.
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#platformgovernance #contentmoderation #ebay
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“Fixing borders in data: Challenges in quantifying the health status of Venezuelan pendular migrants in the Colombian border” by Maria G. Malagon, Natalia Nino-Machado, Sandra P. Martinez-Cabezas, and Catalina Gonzalez-Uribe.
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"The Digital Welfare State: Conceptual limits and possibilities” by Scarlet Wilcock and Georgia van Toorn.
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#digitalwelfarestate #digitalization #socialpolicy
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"Dis/engaging the ‘common sense’ of AI: Labor strategies from the 2023 SAG-AFTRA around data-driven technologies” by Emma May, Britt Paris, and Serita Sargent.
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#reconfiguration #feministSTS #ethicsofcare
New in Big Data & Society 🗞️
Warren Pearce et al., examine how Google transformed knowledge infrastructure through computer vision, tracing a shift from ranking by authority to ranking by similarity in Google Images.
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Anna Kawakami, Jordan Taylor, Sarah Fox, Haiyi Zhu, and Kenneth Holstein introduce “AI failure loops” to show how overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise reinforce workplace breakdowns, especially in devalued labor.
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Alejandra Regla-Vargas, AJ Alvero, and Hajar Yazdiha analyze anti-Asian hate and counter-hate on social media during COVID-19, showing how hate and resistance enact racial projects through shifting frames.
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Today: Panel 3, Techno-Politics of Interoperability. A conversation on how “mundane” database connections become sites of political struggle, shaping privacy, sovereignty, and governance. uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304
#CriticalDataStudies #STS
Tomorrow: BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 3: Techno-Politics of Interoperability with Nina Amelung, Can E Mutlu, Annalisa Pelizza, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup. Mar 4 uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304
#STS #DataGovernance
AI and algorithmic systems rely on interoperability to access vast datasets across databases. Panel 3 digs into the techno-politics behind those connections: who benefits, who gets exposed, and who gets governed. Mar 4 uky.zoom.us/j/84084505304
#AI #DataPolitics
Join us for BD&S 2026 Colloquium, Panel 3: Techno-Politics of Interoperability (Mar 4 | 15:30–17:30 GMT / 10:30 AM–12:30 PM EST). Interoperability is never “just technical”, it’s where governance, power, and data access get decided. lnkd.in/er4cD6xX
hashtag#DataGovernance hashtag#STS
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Laura Rothfritz examines the 2016/2017 Data Rescue movement, introducing “anticipatory maintenance” to show how volunteers built redundant, decentralized strategies for preserving public data amid political uncertainty.
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Yu Sun, Wilfred Yang Wang, and Linlin Li examine “techno-moral governance” in rural China via a data scoring system, showing how digital tools are used to nudge morality and reorganize everyday governance.
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Miao Lu examines how “last mile” rural connectivity in Ghana is built through state projects and Chinese tech, tracing the techno-politics of datafying infrastructure, value creation, and local participation.
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