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Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source 铬作为物流力量的工具：开源的物质政治经济学

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231182399

Bolun Zhang, Davide Carpano

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Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis 谷歌搜索与无知的创造：以气候危机为例

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231158997

Jutta Haider, Malte B. Rödl

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引用次数: 6

Contextualizing realism: An analysis of acts of seeing and recording in Digital Twin datafication 情境化现实主义：数字孪生数据化中的观看和记录行为分析

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231155061

Paulan Korenhof, E. Giesbers, Janita Sanderse

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引用次数: 1

The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology's climate impacts 全球碳网：信息和通信技术对气候影响的关系足迹

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231158994

A. Pasek, Hunter Vaughan, Nicole Starosielski

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引用次数: 6

Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan 殖民和摩擦:尼日利亚东北部和南苏丹数据驱动的人道主义

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231163171

V. Squire, ModestaTochi Alozie

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Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society 数据驱动社会中的事实信号和事实怀旧

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231164118

Sun-ha Hong

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引用次数: 2

Social media advertising for clinical studies: Ethical and data protection implications of online targeting 临床研究的社交媒体广告：网络定向的伦理和数据保护意义

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231156127

Rainer Mühlhoff, Theresa Willem

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引用次数: 2

Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry 短路生物学:精神病学中的数字表现型、数字生物标志物和转移目光

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517221145680

S. Mulinari

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引用次数: 1

Surface and Sublevel Hate 曲面和子层级仇恨

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517221148136

Luke Munn

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Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South 全球发展中国家的残疾数据及其情境和背景的不合理性

IF 8.5 1区社会学

Big Data & Society Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/20539517231160523

Abdul Rohman, Dyah Pitaloka, E. Erlina, Duy Dang, Ade Prastyani

引用次数: 1