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Big Data Seductions and Ambivalences

By discoversociety
July 30, 2015

Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra) and Mike Michael (University of Sydney) Many sociological questions are raised by big data. How, when [...]

The Domesticated Aboutness of Big Data Types

By discoversociety
July 30, 2015

Ana Gross (University of Warwick) What is Big Data about? In the following article I will briefly respond to this question [...]

Big Data, Predictive Machines and Security: Enthusiasts, Critics and Sceptics

By discoversociety
July 28, 2015

Adam Edwards (Cardiff University) Big data is in part responsible for a rejuvenated interest in the use of artificial intelligence for [...]

Focus: Islamophobia and Contemporary ‘Europe’

By discoversociety
July 01, 2015

Nasar Meer (Strathclyde University) and Christina Spaeti (Freiburg University) One of the earliest references to ‘Europe’ comes from a Greek myth [...]

Viewpoint: Energy Art and the Metabolic Landscape Project

By discoversociety
July 01, 2015

Geof Rayner (City University London) The philosopher George Herbert Mead, speaking to his students at the University of Chicago in 1909 [...]

On the Frontline: Precarious work-precarious lives

By discoversociety
July 01, 2015

Mandisa Malinga (University of South Africa and University of York) Unemployment is at the centre of the recent attacks on migrants [...]

Policy Briefing: Separation dents a mum’s confidence, but can she get over it?

By discoversociety
July 01, 2015

Lucinda Platt (LSE) and Tina Haux (University of Kent) How does separation affect a woman’s view of herself as a parent? [...]

Deport, Deprive, Extradite: On the Removal of Rights in Terrorising Times

By discoversociety
July 01, 2015

Nisha Kapoor (University of York) If Islamophobia has long marked Europe’s history, its contemporary expression serves a particular crisis of the [...]