[Air-L] Big Data Discourses | International Journal of Communication Special Section

[Christian Pentzold]

Dear AoiR community,

Happy to share that the Special Section of the International Journal of Communication on big data discourses and their societal implications is out and free to download. Edited by Charlotte Knorr and Christian Pentzold.

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
Big data discourses are integral to how we come to understand and engage with datafication. This Special Section explores the semantics of big data in contemporary society, weaving together three central themes: materiality, emerging technologies, and sensemaking around datafication. Across the contributions, the section interrogates how communication, imagination, and social practices shape—and are shaped by—the expanding landscape of data-driven innovation.



The Special Section brings together the following contributions:

• A Model of Frame Categories for Analyzing Media Discourse of Emerging Technologies
Emma Kaylee Graves-Sandriman

• Reframing Datafication: News Media Discourses on Big Data and AI
Maria Cristina Paganoni & Gastón Becerra

• Ask Me Anything! ◕‿◕ – How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being
Jascha Bareis

• Curating AI Into Being: Hacks/Hackers as Amplifiers of Journalism’s Digital Futures
Andreas Hepp

• Data Feelings: Everyday Affects and Sensory Dimensions of Personal Digital Data
Ash Watson & Deborah Lupton

• Aesthetics of Boundless Insight: On the Scalar Ideology of the Data Imaginary
Magdalena Krysztoforska & Oliver Kenny

• A New Source of the Self? A Critical View on the Domestication of Data
Jun Yu

• Deceptive Stories About Scale: Digital Technology, Public Services, and the Promise of Efficiency
Alison B. Powell

• Data in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach
Preeti Raghunath

• Toward Disability Data Justice: A Critical Discussion of Disability and Big Data Discourses
Kuansong Victor Zhuang & Gerard Goggin

• Cultural Motifs of Big Data in User-Generated Content: A Semiautomated Analysis of 10 Years of Discourse
Charlotte Knorr, Andreas Niekler & Christian Pentzold

Together, the articles offer interdisciplinary perspectives grounded in empirical research and critical theory, illuminating the evolving relationship between technology, discourse, and meaning-making in the digital age.


All best,
Christian





—
Professor Dr. Christian Pentzold

Geschäftsführender Direktor | Managing Director 

Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft | Department for Communication and Media Studies
Universität Leipzig | Leipzig University

Nikolaistrasse 27-29, D-04109 Leipzig
christian.pentzold at uni-leipzig.de
https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-kommunikations-und-medienwissenschaft/professuren/professur-fuer-medien-und-kommunikationswissenschaft/