Aidwashing surveillance: Critiquing the corporate exploitation of humanitarian crises

A Martin - Surveillance & Society, 2023 - ojs.library.queensu.ca
Private sector actors have long been involved in surveillance. This extends to surveillance
undertaken in crisis contexts and conflict situations, where humanitarian needs commonly …

Desiloization and its discontents: the politics of data storage in the age of platformization

NB Thylstrup, M Archer, H Steiner - Information, Communication & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This essay explores how desiloization strategies facilitate the emergence and increasing
centralization of private platform power, rather than flattening and democratizing access to …

Basic values in artificial intelligence: comparative factor analysis in Estonia, Germany, and Sweden

A Masso, A Kaun, C Van Noordt - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
Increasing attention is paid to ethical issues and values when designing and deploying
artificial intelligence (AI). However, we do not know how those values are embedded in …

Synthetic Data: From Data Scarcity to Data Pollution

T Wiehn - Surveillance & Society, 2024 - erudit.org
The increasing development and adaptation of synthetic data raises critical concerns about
the perpetuation of datafication logics. In examining some of synthetic data's core promises …

Health in data space: Formative and experiential dimensions of cross-border health data sharing

K Hoeyer, S Green, A Martani, A Middleton… - Big Data & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Healthcare is increasingly datafied, and a wide range of actors—patients, clinicians,
administrators, policymakers, and industry lobbyists—want to be able to exchange and …

AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging

D Luitse, T Blanke, T Poell - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines how platform-based AI competitions structure power relations in
medical imaging research. It focuses on two leading platforms, Kaggle and Grand …

Navigating platformized generative AI: Examining early adopters' experiences through the lens of data reflectivity

MS Mahnke, C Bagger - Convergence, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the widely noticed launch of ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022, an unprecedented
number of users have started to experiment with generative AI for communication purposes …

The Problems with Proxies: Making Data Work Visible through Requester Practices

A Rothschild, D Wang, NJ Vilvanathan… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Fairness in AI and ML systems is increasingly linked to the proper treatment and recognition
of data workers involved in training dataset development. Yet, those who collect and …

The 'doings' behind data: An ethnography of police data construction

I Donatz-Fest - Big Data & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Public organisations, like the Netherlands Police, increasingly rely on data. Despite its
importance, there has been limited empirical attention to how data is created and how its …

Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling

KB Hansen, N Thylstrup - Journal of Cultural Economy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ho** that the promises of machine-learning can be realised in financial markets,
investment management and trading firms increasingly employ machine-learning …