A growing body of research centers around the concept of “datafication” suggesting a buzz
around data studies and, perhaps, the emergence of a research field. This article analyzes …

Open data is increasingly being promoted as a route to achieve food security and
agricultural development. This article critically examines the promotion of open agri-food …

Several industry‐specific metadata initiatives have historically facilitated structured data
modeling for the web in domains such as commerce, publishing, social media, and so forth …

Palantir is among the most secretive and understudied surveillance firms globally. The
company supplies information technology solutions for data integration and tracking to …

Wikidata is a knowledge base (ie, a database of facts) project of the Wikimedia Foundation
and a sister project to Wikipedia that contains billions of facts that anyone can edit. Platform …

Rarely any study investigates how information gatekee** through the solutions and
services enabled by algorithms, hereafter referred to as algorithmic technologies (AT) …

Media technologies now provide facts, answers, and “knowledge” to people–search
engines, apps, and virtual assistants increasingly articulate responses rather than direct …

In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the economies of search and information
retrieval concerning how the products of giant platform companies consolidate and …

Purpose Applied computational ontologies (ACOs) are increasingly used in data science
domains to produce semantic enhancement and interoperability among divergent data. The …

Despite the important role search engines play in finding health information, little systematic
research has looked at the ways in which semantic media complicate this process. An …