Big Data and Society
Impact Factor & Key Scientometrics

I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 20539517

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

History: 2014-2021

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Scope/Description:

The Journals key purpose is to provide a space for connecting debates about the emerging field of Big Data practices and how they are reconfiguring academic social industry business and government relations expertise methods concepts and knowledge.BDS moves beyond usual notions of Big Data and treats it as an emerging field of practices that is not defined by but generative of sometimes novel data qualities such as high volume and granularity and complex analytics such as data linking and mining. It thus attends to digital content generated through online and offline practices in social commercial scientific and government domains. This includes for instance content generated on the Internet through social media and search engines but also that which is generated in closed networks commercial or government transactions and open networks such as digital archives open government and crowdsourced data. Critically rather than settling on a definition the Journal makes this an object of interdisciplinary inquiries and debates explored through studies of a variety of topics and themes.BDS seeks contributions that analyse Big Data practices andor involve empirical engagements and experiments with innovative methods while also reflecting on the consequences for how societies are represented epistemologies realised ontologies and governed politics.