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  1. Viral Data.Matthew Zook & Agnieszka Leszczynski - 2020 - Big Data and Society 7 (2).
    We are experiencing a historical moment characterized by unprecedented conditions of virality: a viral pandemic, the viral diffusion of misinformation and conspiracy theories, the viral momentum of ongoing Hong Kong protests, and the viral spread of #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations and related efforts to defund policing. These co-articulations of crises, traumas, and virality both implicate and are implicated by big data practices occurring in a present that is pervasively mediated by data materialities, deeply rooted dataist ideologies that entrench processes of datafication as (...)
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  • COVID-19: What does it mean for digital social protection?Silvia Masiero - 2020 - Big Data and Society 7 (2).
    COVID-19 has hit a world in which social protection schemes are increasingly augmented with digital measures. Digital identity schemes are especially being adopted to match citizens’ data with social protection entitlements, enabling authentication through demographic and, increasingly, biometric data at the point of access. In this commentary, I discuss three sets of implications that COVID-19 has yielded on digital social protection, whose central trade-off – increasing the probabilities of accurate user identification, at the cost of greater exclusions – has become (...)
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  • Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use.Yao-Tai Li - 2021 - Big Data and Society 8 (2).
    This essay adopts three accounts of “the social” to get a clearer picture of why there is a barrier faced by the government when implementing contact tracing mobile applications. In Hong Kong's context, the paradox involves declining trust of the government's protection of data privacy and growing concern about data surveillance since the 2019 social unrest I argue that exploring the idea of sociality is valuable in that it re-reconfigures the datafication of pandemic control by revealing different sets of social (...)
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  • Digital surveillance in a pandemic response: What bioethics ought to learn from Indigenous perspectives.Tereza Hendl & Tiara Roxanne - 2022 - Bioethics 36 (3):305-312.
    Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 305-312, March 2022.
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  • Fixing food with a limited menu: on (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech sector.Julie Guthman & Michaelanne Butler - 2023 - Agriculture and Human Values 40 (3):835-848.
    Silicon Valley and its innovation center counterparts have come upon food and agriculture as the next frontier for their unique style of innovation and impact. But what exactly can the tech sector, with expertise in information and communication technologies, bring to a domain in which the biophysical materiality of soil, plants, animals and human bodies have most challenged farmers and food companies? Based on a detailed analysis of all of the companies that have pitched their products at events sponsored by (...)
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  • COVID-19, digital health technology and the politics of the unprecedented.Benjamin Chin-Yee & Dillon Wamsley - 2021 - Big Data and Society 8 (1).
    The COVID-19 global pandemic has stretched the capacities of public health institutions and health systems around the world, opening the door to a range of technologically-driven solutions. In this article, we seek to historicize the expanding role of digital health technologies and examine the political-economic context from which they have emerged. Drawing on critical insights from science and technology studies, we maintain that the rise of digital health technologies has been catalyzed by broad shifts in global health governance that have (...)
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  • Pandemic solutionism: the power of big tech during the COVID-19 crisis.Anna-Verena Nosthoff & Felix Maschewski - 2023 - Digital Culture and Society 8 (1):43-65.
    In this article, we investigate how Big Tech companies have used the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to increase their social, political, infrastructural, and epistemic power. We focus on four companies that were outspoken in their efforts to combat the virus: Alphabet (also known as Google), Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (GAFA). During the crisis, these companies evolved as adaptive entities that responded to the state of emergency by promptly rolling out various technological solutions, exemplifying what we call ‘pandemic solutionism’, that (...)
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