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This article situates the recent explosion of online and app-based sports betting within longer histories of datafication and financialization in sports business and culture. The author tracks four histories in which media technologies and financial logics dissolved previously stable sporting events, athletes, and results into aggregations of data and derivatives that could be leveraged and wagered on. Photography established feelings of confidence and objectivity in horse-race results during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Screen and computational technologies since the 1970s have enabled Las Vegas casino sportsbooks to overwhelm bettors with data abundance. Television and web-based play moved poker at the turn of the millennium away from surprise, chance, and reading people toward probability, risk, and reading data. Around the same time, fantasy sports and management-based video games mirrored financial markets in transforming athletes and leagues into derivatives, that is, disaggregated units that could be reassembled in new digital permutations. Each story helps position contemporary online sports betting within a longer historical arc in which gambling and speculation moved to the center of global economy and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Die interaktive Handhabung evidenzbasierten Schlafs: Eine Betrachtung von Online-Darstellungen von Schlaftracking Daten«. A wide array of consumer devices that purport to measure sleep are now available, with sleep measurement often an additional feature alongside the measurement of daily activity through steps and monitoring of heart rate. These devices offer their users insight into the duration of sleep and different sleep phases and the ability to share the outcomes in the form of numbers, charts, and graphs. This paper explores the ways in which these technologies are deployed within everyday online interactions. We explore depictions of sleep self-tracking that are commonly available online and analyse how the sleep data collected are interpreted by users and deployed in differing social interactions through a comparison of traces of the Fitbit sleep self-tracker across Twitter, Instagram, and the parenting discussion forum Mumsnet. We find that sleep self-tracking is, across platforms, occasioning new practices of evidencing sleep that acquire particular meaning within existing relationships. There is also however a strong mood of rejection, mistrust, and doubt around self-tracked sleep. The new ways of evidencing sleep sit alongside and in dialogue with previous ways of knowing sleep and of deploying it within social interactions, rather than displacing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erholung neu definieren: Eine Taxonomie heutiger digitaler Schlaftechnologien «. Digital sleep tracking has become part of everyday life via smartphones with in-built sensors, dedicated sleep tracking software, and a range of peripherals. In a context of mediatised and managed sleep, this paper seeks to schematise the scope of consumer technologies, products, and media taking shape in the sleep industry. We outline a five-part taxonomy of sleep media technology: instrumentalisation of sleep data; augmentation of bedroom material; routinisation of sleep atmosphere; hacking of sleep rhythms; and finally, modulation of neurological states. We argue these technology types amalgamate to position sleep as in-crisis, while concurrently, commodifying this problem with digital "solutions" intervening at different scales, from the brain to body to bedroom to environment. Emerging from marketing and popular media coverage are new norms of "good sleep" and "sleep hygiene," normalising a discussion of "how" (rather than "if") digital technologies can measure, datafy, optimise, automate, and bioengineer sleep. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Land use change is needed to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss and is increasingly incentivised through natural capital approaches that reward delivery of ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and biodiversity. A proliferation of land use change decision-support tools are developed –often by private companies– to support land use change decision-making and measure success of government policy and private investment targets. However, understanding of land manager uptake of these tools is often limited, and the limitations and risks of tools used to support land use change decision-making is understudied. We explore these knowledge gaps in a UNESCO Biosphere in Galloway and Southern Ayrshire, Scotland through nineteen interviews with a wide range of land managers. We found that the promotion of tools as a mechanism to deliver rapid land use change is unlikely to be successful for three reasons: 1) the dominant focus on instrumental values, neglecting land managers' broader values; 2) the technocratic tools-based approach to decision-making is at odds with land manager behaviour; and 3) the importance of peer-led networks is neglected. Framing the promotion of tools as another form of environmental rescaling, we argue that they are a red herring in addressing issues of land use change. The emphasis should instead be on appropriately supporting and resourcing local peer-led networks to enable and incentivise land-use change. These findings have global relevance given increasing promotion of these approaches within international policy and country-level policy in many countries worldwide. • Land use decision support tools are not widely used. • Tool development is part of rescaling environmental governance. • Datafication and quantification minimise local forms of information sharing. • Social capital is vital for land use change information sharing. • Trusted, peer-led networks can increase tool uptake and promote land use change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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»Organisationale Datenarbeit und ihre Sinnhorizonte: Über die Bedeutung von Zeitlichkeiten und Topologien von Datenflüssen für die Erforschung digitaler Transformationsprozesse«. Reconstructing topological and temporal accounts of data movement is an approach to researching digital transformation(s) that challenges distal assumptions of organisations as fixed structures through which data flow like immutable mobiles. Based on a case study in education, we present and reflect on the challenges of reconstructing and visualising data movement. In particular, we attend to how the often-conflicting views of organisational members about how data "actually" move pose a challenge to reconstruct a "full picture." We propose the notion of horizon of sense to grasp the situated data practices of organisational actors and reconstruct their horizons of sense through two perspectives: First, data movement connects different social actors, documents, information systems, or databases in different forms. This perspective considers the topologies of data movement and foregrounds the relationality of data movement at a given point in time. Second, the movement of data is made possible through different interconnected activities that unfold over time. This dimension relates to the temporalities of data movement and foregrounds processes and activities that connect data work in its temporal flow. We demonstrate why it is important to consider both perspectives when researching digital transformation(s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

»Von der digitalen Planung zu Daten-Assets: Konkurrierende Visionen, Politikprojekte und neue Arrangements der Wertschöpfung in der digitalen Transformation des Bauwesens«. The construction sector faces multiple challenges such as poor productivity, performance, and competitiveness and has a huge share in global waste production, CO2 emissions, and resource depletion. In this situation, a broad range of public and private stakeholders place their hopes on the digitalisation of construction, in particular, building information modelling (BIM). The article seeks to destabilise the notion of "the" digitalisation in a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. First, we map out the landscape of digital visions regarding the future of construction by examining pertinent academic, public, and professional discourses in recent years. We identify a vision of industrialised construction, a vision of data-based integration, a vision of singularised architecture, a vision of digital sustainability, and an emerging vision of the "twin green and digital transition." In a diachronic perspective, we zoom in to UK "BIM-and-beyond" policy from 2011 to 2021 and show how BIM has evolved from a digital design tool into a critical component for building a national system of data-assets for data-based value creation. In both perspectives, we see a recurring storyline according to which the sector will solve all its problems if it only undertakes the digital transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing presence of 'datafied' educational settings across Australia, critical components of teachers' educational practice and work have been quantified. Digital data collected through teachers' labour in and around the classroom links to educational practice and the commercial datafication of teachers' online persona. Often described as 'sleepwalking' towards surveillance, this paper argues that corporate marketing strategies induce teachers in a state of 'commercial and computational comatose'. It challenges the concept of 'sleepwalking' by introducing an emergent way of thinking, through the metaphor eMorpheus, to stress broader tensions concerning teachers' working conditions, rights, and employment. Drawing on in-depth interview data generated via the Apps in Australian Classrooms Project, the findings highlight how the new forms of leadership are emerging in educational settings in response through consideration of the eMorpheus metaphor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Concerns are increasingly being raised about the routine collection and analysis of children’s data, about commercial data mining and digital profiling and about the datafication of children. To date, however, little attention has been given to how public sector bodies are using children’s data to make decisions that affect them, or to exploring children’s views about public sector collection, analysis and disclosure of children’s data. This article commences by outlining the findings of a small-scale study which sought children’s views about governmental use of data in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Seventeen children, aged between eleven and eighteen years, participated in this research. These children wanted and expected the UK Government to consider their views about matters affecting them, including how their data is used. Although the UK Government is now proposing to build on its data-driven pandemic response, arguing that the success of its data-driven approach obliges it to do still more with data held by the public sector, noone has considered how such proposals will impact upon children. These proposals, outlined in ‘Data: A New Direction’ pay scant regard to children’s rights or interests. Children’s views regarding these proposals have not been sought. It is argued, that with the UK Government considering how best to reform data protection legislation, there is a pressing need to consider how children’s views can now be fed into UK data policy. The datafication of children, is, however, an issue affecting children not only in the UK but worldwide. At European and global levels academics and policy makers have begun to ask how children can be supported to understand how their data is used and to express their views and opinions about its use. The Council of Europe and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child have both recommended that children should be actively involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of legislation and policy. This article argues that to comply with international obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to meet the expectations of children themselves, governments must give more thought to ensuring data policy is informed by children’s views and that children’s best interests are treated as a primary consideration. This article explains how this can be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a growing body of work has documented, digital technologies are central to the imagining of aging futures. In this study, we offer a critical, theoretical framework for exploring the dynamics of power related to the technological tracking, measuring, and managing of aging bodies at the heart of these imaginaries. Drawing on critical gerontology, feminist technoscience, sociology of the body, and socio-gerontechnology, we identify three dimensions of power relations where the designs, operations, scripts, and materialities of technological innovation implicate asymmetrical relationships of control and intervention: (1) aging bodies and the power of numbers, (2) aging spaces and the power of surveillance, and (3) age care economies and gendered power relations. While technological care for older individuals has been promoted as a cost-effective way to enhance independence, security, and health, we argue that such optimistic perspectives may obscure the realities of social inequality, agist bias, and exploitative gendered care labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation. This rapid digitalisation enhances the already ongoing process of datafication, namely turning everincreasing aspects of our identities, practices, and societal structures into data. Through an analysis of empirical examples of datafication in three important areas of the welfare state -- employment services, public service media, and the corrections sector -- we draw attention to some of the inherent problems of datafication in the Nordic welfare states. The analysis throws critical light on automated decision-making processes and illustrates how the ideology of dataism has become increasingly entangled with welfare provision. We end the article with a call to develop specific measures and policies to enable the development of the data welfare state, with media and communication scholars playing a crucial role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Enterprise social media (ESM) have largely gone ignored in discussions of the datafication practices of social media platforms. This article presents an initial step towards filling this research gap. My research question in this article regards how employees of companies using the ESM Workplace from Facebook feel that the implementation of this particular platform relates to their potential struggles for digital privacy and work--life segmentation. Methodologically, I explore this through a qualitative interview study of 21 Danish knowledge workers in different organisations using the ESM. The central analytical proposal of the article is that the interviewees express a "digital resignation" towards the implementation of the ESM. In contrast to previous discussions, this resignation cannot only be thought of as "corporately cultivated" by third parties, but must also be considered as "organisationally cultivated" by the organisations people work for. The study suggests that datafication-oriented media studies should consider organisational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the current datafication processes in the field of health as a new form of health coordination. Methodologically, the conceptual foundation of the article is embedded in neopragmatist thinking and mainly informed by the "economics of convention" (EC). At the beginning, it is made clear that the datafication processes in the health system and in people's everyday lives are primarily a future vision that has high hopes for improving and controlling health. The aim of the article is to analyze the current effects of these mobilization processes and to show that with datafication processes, a new coordination mode of a digital daily health is introduced. To this end, the new form of digital daily health is being introduced. For this purpose, its characteristics are described and its relevance for coordination processes is shown. After that, the intersection between the new form of digital daily health and individual health will be analyzed. Finally, the consequences of this new health coordination form will be shown on an individual level as well as on the level of political economy of health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This position paper uses the concept of "hidden curriculum" as a heuristic device to analyze everyday data-related practices in formal education. Grounded in a careful reading of the theoretical literature, this paper argues that the everyday data-related practices of contemporary education can be approached as functional forms of data literacy education: deeds with unintentional educational consequences for students' relationships with data and datafication. More precisely, this paper suggests that everyday datarelated practices represent data as cognitive authority and naturalize the routines of all-pervading data collection. These routines lead to what is here referred to as "data (il)literacy" - an uncritical, one-dimensional understanding of data and datafication. Since functional data (il)literacy education takes place subconsciously, it can be conceptualized as a form of hidden curriculum, an idea that refers to lessons taught and learned but not consciously intended to be so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Archaeological data is always incomplete, frequently unreliable, often replete with unknown unknowns, but we nevertheless make the best of what we have and use it to build our theories and extrapolations about past events. Is there any reason to think that digital data alter this already complicated relationship with archaeological data? How does the shift to an infinitely more flexible, fluid digital medium change the character of our data and our use of it? The introduction of Big Data is frequently said to herald a new epistemological paradigm, but what are the implications of this for archaeology? As we are increasingly subject to algorithmic agency, how can we best manage this new data regime? This paper seeks to unpick the nature of digital data and its use within a Big Data environment as a prerequisite to rational and appropriate digital data analysis in archaeology, and proposes a means towards developing a more reflexive, contextual approach to Big Data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the past half century, the global environment has become subject to an accelerated pace of mediation and datafication. This ongoing transition has become so comprehensive that the knowledge, management and governance of the Earth system is dependent on enormous flows of data from a "vast machine" of measuring tools. These processes combined have formed what we call a "mediated planet," subject to interpretation and shared human decision-making – that should ideally be democratic, inclusive and accountable. As environmental datafication continues to accelerate, private corporations are gaining increasing influence on and power over the associated collections of data. This is a cause for concern, as the global environmental commons are a public interest of concern to all people. This article argues for the need to critically research the challenges and risks associated with the rapid datafication of the environment, specifically in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for climate change (13), the ocean (14), biodiversity (15) and inclusive and accountable institutions (16). More knowledge is needed of how the SDGs and their supporting networks influence data-generation on a mediated planet, and how issues of access to and use of environmental data, as well as data ownership and AI implementation, can best be navigated. We contend that such knowledge can help enhance the democratic potential of the SDGs to build public trust and secure broad participation in global environmental governance in ways that also support peaceful and inclusive societies, as promised by SDG 16. • Datafication of the environment changes planetary politics in profound ways. • SDGs are simultaneously depending on and affecting environmental datafication. • Environmental datafication reconfigures global power relations. • Environmental policy should integrate AI and digital infrastructures. • Datafication affects conflicts between exploitation and conservation of environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article elaborates on the prospects for research interventions that repurpose the means of datafication to create possibilities for people to reflect on what it means in their daily lives. The research data consist of qualitative research interviews (n=13) in which media diaries and tracking data from the participants' smartphones and computers served as prompts for reflection. The experiences from the self-monitoring and the encounters with tracked data by self-identified avid ICT users are analysed to gain a better understanding of the kinds of possibilities for reflexivity that are enabled when people have access to data that are rarely available to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Platforms negotiate a tension between adaptability and accessibility. • Platforms provide entry points for the private sector in environmental governance. • The "platformization" of citizen science emphasizes passive citizen sensing. • 'Platform-legible' parameters are prioritized over alternative ways of knowing water. Mobile applications are developed and deployed to streamline various aspects of aquatic citizen science, including data collection, storage, sharing, and analysis. Frequently framed as the outcome of technological innovation, the "platformization" of community-based water monitoring (CBWM) involves a negotiation of technical, logistical, organizational, social, and political considerations, and the specific configurations of these intersecting factors have implications for public engagement in freshwater science and monitoring. Based on a review of the literature in platform studies, we identify challenges and risks that "platformization" may pose for citizen science. These risks include extractivism and commodification, scaling tensions, and technological solutionism. We then present five components of the "platform ecosystem of CBWM," which we derived following a review and analysis of methods, tools, and equipment used by CBWM groups listed on two citizen science inventories (SciStarter and CitizenScience.gov). Choices about platform uptake and design have implications not only for the kinds of data that are collected, but for the nature of the participation that they elicit from volunteer participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The visualization of numeric data is becoming an important element in journalism. In this article, we present an interview study investigating data visualization practices in Scandinavian newsrooms. Editorial leaders, data journalists, developers and graphic designers in 10 major news organizations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark provide information for the study on a range of issues concerning visualization practices and experiences. The emergence of multi-skilled specialist groups as well as innovation in technology and the 'mobile first mantra' are identified as important factors in the fast-developing practices of journalistic data visualization. Elements of tension and negotiation are revealed for issues concerning the role and effect of complex exploratory data visualizations and concerning the role of ordinary journalists in the production of charts and graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This quantitative, case study explores the importance of IT, CIS, Computer Science, and Communications as interdisciplinary degree programs with criminal justice curriculum. The researchers examined the future technology skills needed by police agencies, the current recruiting trends by police departments and compared these needs with current four year, accredited criminal justice programs. The researchers then examined the perceptions of criminal justice major students and their assessment of the importance and impact of technology in law enforcement today and in the near future. The data demonstrates how criminal justice students' perceptions allude to the importance and relevancy of technology in law enforcement and how CJ programs are not adequately preparing them for future policing needs. In addition, police agencies are not effectively recruiting technology officers to meet current and future technological needs for law enforcement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the current ‘datafication’ process underway in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the power shifts it is creating in the field of international development. The use of new communications and database technologies in LMICs is generating ‘big data’ (for example from the use of mobile phones, mobile-based financial services and the internet) which is collected and processed by corporations. When shared, these data are also becoming a potentially valuable resource for development research and policy. With these new sources of data, new power structures are emerging within the field of development. We identify two trends in particular, illustrating them with examples: first, the empowerment of public–private partnerships around datafication in LMICs and the consequently growing agency of corporations as development actors. Second, the way commercially generated big data is becoming the foundation for country-level ‘data doubles’, i.e. digital representations of social phenomena and/or territories that are created in parallel with, and sometimes in lieu of, national data and statistics. We explore the resulting shift from legibility ( Scott, 1998 ) to visibility, and the implications of seeing development interventions as a byproduct of larger-scale processes of informational capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the concept of the 'division of learning' (Zuboff 2019), and the broader thesis of 'surveillance capitalism' within which it is situated, in terms of its relevance to education. It begins with defining the term, before suggesting two key ways in which aligning the 'division of learning' with perspectives from educational research provides productive insights. The first considers the impact of increasing 'datafication' in education, where platform technologies are proliferating as powerful actors that both mediate and shape educational activity. Here the 'division of learning' offers useful insights concerning the disparities resulting from learning in and learning from educational platforms. The second explores the extent to which education theory might offer ways to develop the concept of the 'division of learning', through critique of the term 'learning' itself, as well as the foregrounding of questions about educational 'purpose'. Here the 'division of learning' is suggested to maintain, rather than challenge, the dominant practices of data exploitation, for which further engagement with a purposive, political, and emancipatory form of 'data science' is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital capitalism has produced a new concentration of capital, knowledge, and power unprecedented in history. Quantification is fundamental to digital and capitalistic structural principles. In view of a comprehensive quantification and measurement of life and society, questions of meaning and significance must be asked beyond quantifying process structures. The first part of the article identifies capitalistic and digital structural principles, showing affinities between both principles. The second part points out central challenges and problem areas of digital capitalism. The third part discusses the manoeuvres of the IT industry in Germany to gain more influence on the education sector. Against the background of these developments, the last part outlines the need for alternative pathways and presents dimensions of a critical media education.2 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]