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  • Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

  • Why do computational methods matter for education?

  • AOL as the first mass commercial social media

  • The Poetics of Data Analytics

  • Digital capitalism or digital socialism?

  • Big data and the future of sociological theory

  • Theorising the relationship between data and agency

  • CfP: Political epistemologies of Big Data

  • The Politics of Big Data: Social Listening and Reclaiming the Future

  • Cultural studies of data mining

  • Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

  • Expertise and the politics of discipline

  • From homo economicus to homo digitalis

  • Social listening and reclaiming the future

  • Call for Papers: “Research Synthesis” and “Big Data in Psychology”

  • The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

  • The coming big data revolution within higher education

  • The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

  • The economic limitations of the attention economy

  • The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

  • The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

  • BIG QUALIDATA: Tackling Analysis of Very Large Volumes of Qualitative Data in Social Science Researc

  • Living by numbers: big data & society

  • digital data and ‘the utopia of total social legibility’

  • the two ontological orientations to technology prevalent within digital capitalism

  • mike savage on ‘making sense of big data’

  • big data and the politics of austerity 

  • big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

  • the big data divide 

  • the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

  • digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

  • big data barbarism

  • using big data to transform the classroom from the 19th century to the 21st

  • Data Big and Small: Past, Present and Future

  • Sociological questions about the coming era of data-driven privatised policing

  • Big Data & Society – Early Career Researcher Forum

  • Call for papers: Internet of You: Data Big and Small

  • The myth of ‘us’ in a digital age

  • The sociology of data science

  • The Philosophy of Data Science

  • Rob Kitchin on critical data studies

  • Evelyn Ruppert: The economies and ecologies of Big Data

  • Duncan Watts on the challenge of big data

  • Normcore and the Anxieties of Big Data

  • Five Recommendations for Social Scientists in responding to big data

  • Computational Social Science Conference

  • Computational Social Science Conference

  • CfP: Big Data in Political Science

  • Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

  • Big Data & Society now open for submissions

  • Using big data to quantify complex social processes

  • Big Data Behaviourism

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