Sociology & Anthropology · Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology
A topic within Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
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danah boyd & Kate Crawford
Argues that the availability of huge datasets has produced a mythology that bigger data means more objective truth, and lays out six provocations -- including that data taken out of context loses meaning -- that big-data research routinely ignores.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Zeynep Tufekci
Argues that platforms' ability to run unannounced experiments on users and to target messages using behavioural data lets them shape political participation in ways that are invisible to the people being modelled and largely unregulated.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026