Big Data & Society (BD&S)

Journal Description

Big Data & Society (BD&S) is an Open Access peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences about the implications of Big Data for societies. The Journal’s key purpose is to provide a space for connecting debates about the emerging field of Big Data practices … |

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Journal Feed

• Latin American critical data studies
  April 13, 2025 by Rafael GrohmannDepartment of Arts, Culture and Media & Faculty of Information, 7938University of Toronto, ON, Canada
  Big Data & Society, Volume 12, Issue 2, April-June 2025. In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘…
• The ontological politics of synthetic data: Normalities, outliers, and intersectional hallucinations
  April 13, 2025 by Francis Lee, Saghi Hajisharif, Ericka Johnson
  Big Data & Society, Volume 12, Issue 2, April-June 2025. Synthetic data is increasingly used as a substitute for real data due to ethical, legal, and logistical reasons. However, the rise of synthetic data also raises critical questions about its entanglement with the politics of classification and the …