✨ New in BD&S ✨
“Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries” by Gabrielle D. Beacken, @ingakris.bsky.social, and Samuel C. Woolley.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#AI #propaganda #democraticweakening
📢 New in *Big Data & Society*: How do people think generative AI chatbots actually work?
Li, Kim & Lou explore laypeople’s *folk theories* about tools like ChatGPT: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
New in Big Data & Society:
David Beer & Benjamin N. Jacobsen show how “distillation” is not just technical—it’s reframing what counts as reasoning in AI.
With DeepSeek-R1, this points to power without scale. Concepts don’t just describe AI—they shape its future.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
📢 New in *Big Data & Society*: How does environmental data shape activism in contexts where resistance is not always openly confrontational?
Yu Sun examines NGO-led environmental data practices in China: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
How is scientific knowledge infrastructure becoming platformized?
Analyzing 976 NSF-funded data management plans (2011–2021), Acker, Struett, Tian & Finn trace a shift from open-source preservation toward corporate-owned platforms and cloud services: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
“Platformization of research data infrastructure: A decadal analysis of scientific data management plans” by Amelia Acker, @tstruett.bsky.social, Yubing Tian, and Megan Finn.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#researchdatamanagement #openscience
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
“Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
“’You can’t put the cat back in the bag once it’s out’: Australians’ understandings, practices and imaginaries concerning generative AI” by @dalupton.bsky.social and Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#GenerativeAI #socialresearch
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
“Making machine learning good enough – studying the political endeavour of finding ‘right’ metrics and thresholds” by @annaschjoett.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#machinelearning #goodenough #MLevaluation
✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨
“Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification” by @aminaabdu.bsky.social and @azjacobs.bsky.social.
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
#legitimacy #quantification #algorithmicgovernance
