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It should include your disciplinary background, current position and university, a brief overview of your interest in becoming a Co-Editor (300 words), five keywords describing your expertise and a copy of your current CV. (7/7)

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The journal Big Data & Society (https://t.co/XVt3y4NVUn) is calling for expressions of interest in serving as a Co-Editor for a three-year term beginning in March 2026 As a Co-Editor, you will help shape scholarship around social, economic, political, and ethical implications of

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If you have questions, please contact the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Matthew Zook ([email protected]) To express interest in becoming a Co-Editor, please fill in this short form by February 20, 2026 https://t.co/dY5Cg9RHTP (6/n)

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Dear all, Big Data & Society is fading out its presence on X. In the future, you will find us on LinkedIn and Bluesky:

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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality" by Mette Simonsen Abildgaard https://t.co/Sjj8W6rwFz
Introduces “sensing data” as an embodied method for studying digital infrastructures and how data is made, moved, and felt.

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"Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism" by @giazzolino & @NimeshDhungana
https://t.co/XcrvZGQ9r6
Asks how “data work” shapes digital humanitarianism, revealing tensions between prediction, curation, and humanitarian principles.

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"Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi https://t.co/UlmXKtt8AW
Digital rights activism in India reframes data sovereignty from the ground up.

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"Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design" by Jutta Haider et al. https://t.co/DMDb4n4wAd
AI-driven platforms normalize high-emission lifestyles, calls for redesign

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"Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment" by @martintironi & Camila Albornoz https://t.co/QUzcY595YH
Failed bid to decolonize AI imaginaries in Latin America shows limits of dominant approaches, recasting failure as a tool for engagement

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"The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement" by Jessica Needle & Alan Rubel https://t.co/68jDBMNCVx
Critiques U.S. use of Accurint in immigration enforcement for violating rights and autonomy.

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"Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" by Yuerong Hu (@miehumie) et al. https://t.co/DBkidReBeV
Incentivized reviews show how sponsorship and platform dynamics shape reading, reinforce inequalities, and complicate use of scraped data in research.

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"The promise of security of unfinished infrastructure" by @nina_amelung
https://t.co/UolxulZt9r
How the EU’s ‘interoperability’ project, unfinished yet expanding, reshapes migration control through delays, data access, and migrant criminalization.

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"Our data, ourselves" by @sagnikdutta & @MazumdarSuruchi https://t.co/UlmXKtt8AW
Activists in India resist data colonialism and reimagine data sovereignty via grassroots mobilisation, accountability, and justice.

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"Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance" by @MahaRafiAtal & Pamela Mondliwa (@Nqojela) https://t.co/E2YZurDreb
Fintech inclusion meets consolidation, data extraction & exclusion.

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🏠📉 New in Big Data & Society:

Why the smart home failed
Ethnographic insights from Goulden & Cameron reveal how everyday resistance quietly unraveled Big Tech’s dream.
📖 https://t.co/YB1bmaAx4T

#SmartHome #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigData #BDaS

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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data" by Aaron Martin https://t.co/Sf1ZBBybqX
From Rohingya biometrics to Ukraine data, sharing humanitarian data disputes reveal deeper power struggles. Enter the “pseudo-sovereigns.” #HumanitarianData