Academic publisher SAGE has launched Big Data & Society, an open access (OA), peer reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to exploring the implications of Big Data for societies. Big Data & Society aims to move beyond the usual notions of Big Data and provide a platform for connecting debates on how Big Data practices are reconfiguring academic, social, industry, business and government relations, expertise, methods, concepts and knowledge.
The journal will publish interdisciplinary work principally in the social sciences, humanities and computing and their intersections with the arts and natural sciences. The focus will be on the implications of this interdisciplinary work on Big Data for societies.
Big Data & Society seeks contributions that analyze Big Data practices and/or involve empirical engagements and experiments with innovative methods. Contributions will also reflect on the consequences for how societies are represented (epistemologies), realised (ontologies) and governed (politics).
The new website is http://bds.sagepub.com. The corresponding blog for the journal can be found at http://bigdatasoc.blogspot.co.uk/p/big-data-and-society.html.
