Data as a discursive concept in and around data‐intensive health and wellness
communities evokes multiple social values and social lives for data. Drawing on two years of …

Biomedical investment in digital technologies has flooded society with staggering volumes
of data, spurring high-tech innovations such as performance metrics, clinical algorithms, and …

Communication technologies increasingly mediate data exchanges rather than human
communication. We propose the term data valences to describe the differences in …

This dissertation examined the social and organizational implications of data-intensive
transformations in healthcare through studying digital health and processes of …

Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of
contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; …

Social institutions increasingly appear as data-driven entities, with data analytics and
information technology transforming social life across health care, education, and criminal …

It has become a trope to speak of the increasing value of health data in our societies. Such
rhetoric is highly performative: it creates expectations, channels and justifies investments in …

The rapidly increasing volume of health data generated from digital technologies have
ushered in an unprecedented opportunity for health research. Despite their promises, big …

After briefly introducing the project, we first explore what the creation of this digital health
infrastructure as socio-technical arrangement entails, if it is done in a way that allows for the …

In this special issue, we ask: What do we see when we look at datafied societies through the
lens of care? Following the footsteps of feminist writers, activists, and academics who take …