[Commlist] Big Data Discourses - International Journal of Communication Special Section published

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 <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.



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