So this was the non-existent paper I searched for:
Williamson, B. (2021). Education governance and datafication. European Educational Research Journal, 20(3), 279–296.
But the search result I got was a bit different...
Williamson, B. (2021). Education governance and datafication. European Educational Research Journal, 20(3), 279–296.
But the search result I got was a bit different...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So this was the non-existent paper I searched for:
Williamson, B. (2021). Education governance and datafication. European Educational Research Journal, 20(3), 279–296.
But the search result I got was a bit different...
Williamson, B. (2021). Education governance and datafication. European Educational Research Journal, 20(3), 279–296.
But the search result I got was a bit different...
🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 7, 2026 at 2:03 PM
🧵My paper on "Uneven Datafication" just came out! It draws on literature on coloniality, uneven development and dependency. Uneven datafication operates through three interrelated dynamics:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here's the paper I found online:
Williamson, B. and Piattoeva, N. (2022) Education Governance and Datafication. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 3515-3531.
Same title but now with a coauthor and in a different journal! Nelli Piattoeva and I *have* written together before but not this...
Williamson, B. and Piattoeva, N. (2022) Education Governance and Datafication. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 3515-3531.
Same title but now with a coauthor and in a different journal! Nelli Piattoeva and I *have* written together before but not this...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Here's the paper I found online:
Williamson, B. and Piattoeva, N. (2022) Education Governance and Datafication. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 3515-3531.
Same title but now with a coauthor and in a different journal! Nelli Piattoeva and I *have* written together before but not this...
Williamson, B. and Piattoeva, N. (2022) Education Governance and Datafication. Education and Information Technologies, 27, 3515-3531.
Same title but now with a coauthor and in a different journal! Nelli Piattoeva and I *have* written together before but not this...
2. Subjects the wearer to input they cannot verify and 3. Subjects us all to increased surveillance, datafication, and monetization.
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
2. Subjects the wearer to input they cannot verify and 3. Subjects us all to increased surveillance, datafication, and monetization.
Thus endeth my “datafication is never neutral despite concerted efforts to convince the public otherwise” rant.
May 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Thus endeth my “datafication is never neutral despite concerted efforts to convince the public otherwise” rant.
What happens when workers are reduced to productivity metrics? I wrote about surveillance tech & the datafication of work for @technologyreview.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What happens when workers are reduced to productivity metrics? I wrote about surveillance tech & the datafication of work for @technologyreview.com
My fellow caregivers, I'd like to suggest the datafication and surveillance of our children is, in fact, not worth it.
A parent with a child at the hacked nursery chain "viewed the cyber-attack as an inherent risk of using any app, and considered the opportunity to gain real-time information on his child, such as what they had eaten, worth it" 🤔
Kido nursery hackers threaten to publish more children’s profiles
September 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My fellow caregivers, I'd like to suggest the datafication and surveillance of our children is, in fact, not worth it.
The datafication and repackaging of our human creativity into chatbots that are sold back to us as a digital replacement for our own labor, critical thinking, and social relationships is another kind of detention center.
January 30, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The datafication and repackaging of our human creativity into chatbots that are sold back to us as a digital replacement for our own labor, critical thinking, and social relationships is another kind of detention center.
It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
Parents Talking Algorithms
Parents Talking Algorithms - Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies; This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 10:14 AM
It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot. That's bad for people who need homes: www.techpolicy.press/the-noxious-...
The Noxious Datafication of the Housing Market | TechPolicy.Press
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot.
www.techpolicy.press
June 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM
The datafication and financialization of housing has led to the phenomenon of housing platformization, say Alexandre Petticlerc and David Eliot. That's bad for people who need homes: www.techpolicy.press/the-noxious-...
Datafication in fully automated luxury communism? More likely than you might think.
August 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Datafication in fully automated luxury communism? More likely than you might think.
New article: Institutional constraints to higher education datafication
Drawing on @taso.org.uk -funded research, we show how limited infrastructure, prioritisation of externally-facing facing data, lack of time & institutional cultures all limit HE datafication
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Drawing on @taso.org.uk -funded research, we show how limited infrastructure, prioritisation of externally-facing facing data, lack of time & institutional cultures all limit HE datafication
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study - Higher Education
Strong claims are made by both higher education policymakers and institutional leaders about the advantages that can be brought about through ‘datafication’ (i.e. the quantification of human activitie...
link.springer.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
New article: Institutional constraints to higher education datafication
Drawing on @taso.org.uk -funded research, we show how limited infrastructure, prioritisation of externally-facing facing data, lack of time & institutional cultures all limit HE datafication
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Drawing on @taso.org.uk -funded research, we show how limited infrastructure, prioritisation of externally-facing facing data, lack of time & institutional cultures all limit HE datafication
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Four Stages of Dante's Platform
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(1) Datafication
(2) Monetisation pivot
(3) Enshittification
(4) Infrastructural capture
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The Four Stages of Dante's Platform
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(1) Datafication
(2) Monetisation pivot
(3) Enshittification
(4) Infrastructural capture
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
┌────────────────┐
The Four Stages of Dante's Platform
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(1) Datafication
(2) Monetisation pivot
(3) Enshittification
(4) Infrastructural capture
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The Four Stages of Dante's Platform
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(1) Datafication
(2) Monetisation pivot
(3) Enshittification
(4) Infrastructural capture
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John Dewey called this shit centuries before our contemporary situation where algorithmic platforms and datafication is concerned.
To paraphrase, Dewey said that the aims to which new technologies are put are grounded in cultural habits that preceded their development.
To paraphrase, Dewey said that the aims to which new technologies are put are grounded in cultural habits that preceded their development.
Really REALLY recommend looking into the history of science and technology even a little bit for a very large list of all the times a "better technology" "won" because of better PR, capital interests, outright violence, or other things, & not, in fact, because those technologies were actually better
No, it actually really doesn't, unless you're trying to claim a determinative arc of progress view of history which even a cursory exploration of ACTUAL history says is just a woefully misframed picture which ignores all times "advances" failed. Nothing is inevitable. Every made thing can be changed
February 4, 2024 at 11:09 PM
John Dewey called this shit centuries before our contemporary situation where algorithmic platforms and datafication is concerned.
To paraphrase, Dewey said that the aims to which new technologies are put are grounded in cultural habits that preceded their development.
To paraphrase, Dewey said that the aims to which new technologies are put are grounded in cultural habits that preceded their development.
TIL a more righteous synonym for “paralysis by analysis”:
the datafication of injustice
*bow head, puts hand on heart*
the datafication of injustice
*bow head, puts hand on heart*
Delaying needed change & direct interventions w/faculty to conduct ANOTHER climate survey or share data on classroom/campus incivility & bias brings to mind Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social's "datafication of injustice"...in which the hunt for more & more data is a barrier to acting on what we already know."
November 19, 2024 at 4:32 AM
TIL a more righteous synonym for “paralysis by analysis”:
the datafication of injustice
*bow head, puts hand on heart*
the datafication of injustice
*bow head, puts hand on heart*
Silicon Valley eugenics ⬇️
"In the US, varied datafication methods—from IQ exams and immigrant literacy tests, to criminal databases, biometric archives—were deployed by eugenic researchers in an effort to not just track and surveil the poor, and to argue for their segregation."
"In the US, varied datafication methods—from IQ exams and immigrant literacy tests, to criminal databases, biometric archives—were deployed by eugenic researchers in an effort to not just track and surveil the poor, and to argue for their segregation."
Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
www.motherjones.com
January 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Silicon Valley eugenics ⬇️
"In the US, varied datafication methods—from IQ exams and immigrant literacy tests, to criminal databases, biometric archives—were deployed by eugenic researchers in an effort to not just track and surveil the poor, and to argue for their segregation."
"In the US, varied datafication methods—from IQ exams and immigrant literacy tests, to criminal databases, biometric archives—were deployed by eugenic researchers in an effort to not just track and surveil the poor, and to argue for their segregation."
#OutNow in #iCS
The authors ask how the providers of research information legitimize the need for the datafication of research & thus for their tools by looking at the providers’ narratives of transparency & how they differ according to their business model.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The authors ask how the providers of research information legitimize the need for the datafication of research & thus for their tools by looking at the providers’ narratives of transparency & how they differ according to their business model.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Narratives of transparency: how do commercial and non-commercial providers of research information legitimize the datafication of research?
The datafication of research has immensely expanded the possibilities for creating more metadata regarding research practice and performance. This has supported the growth of research information p...
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2026 at 3:39 PM
#OutNow in #iCS
The authors ask how the providers of research information legitimize the need for the datafication of research & thus for their tools by looking at the providers’ narratives of transparency & how they differ according to their business model.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The authors ask how the providers of research information legitimize the need for the datafication of research & thus for their tools by looking at the providers’ narratives of transparency & how they differ according to their business model.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
More then bread crumbs! The "privatization with datafication" banquet with huge profits is still on.
September 19, 2026 at 6:03 PM
More then bread crumbs! The "privatization with datafication" banquet with huge profits is still on.
It’s not quite smashing the cameras with a hammer, but denying Flock and cops access to this surveillance system while protecting people from further datafication is one form contemporary Luddism might take.
New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down:
www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
www.404media.co
May 28, 2026 at 10:47 PM
It’s not quite smashing the cameras with a hammer, but denying Flock and cops access to this surveillance system while protecting people from further datafication is one form contemporary Luddism might take.
Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.
A warning to all AI researchers: "The data analytic tools now being used to scour [students'] social media were enhanced during the Biden administration...But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."
Inside the DHS task force scouring foreign students' social media
A critic called the review a return to “McCarthyism,” a reference to tactics used to identify alleged communists during the Cold War.
www.nbcnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Critics of surveillance, datafication and AI are often accused of being alarmist and even hysterical in pointing out the potential for supposedly benign systems to be used in malign and expansive ways. But we’re seeing now how dangerous it was for those critiques to be dismissed.
Interesting new piece from @rachelbrooks.bsky.social and @jilltimms.bsky.social about the limits of datafication in HE. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Institutional constraints to higher education datafication: an English case study - Higher Education
Strong claims are made by both higher education policymakers and institutional leaders about the advantages that can be brought about through ‘datafication’ (i.e. the quantification of human activitie...
link.springer.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Interesting new piece from @rachelbrooks.bsky.social and @jilltimms.bsky.social about the limits of datafication in HE. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The timing of this Canvas hack made me laugh, since this is my class’s very next assigned reading (which they now can’t access lol) eric.ed.gov?q=lms+AND+k1...
ERIC - EJ1254094 - The Case of Canvas: Longitudinal Datafication through Learning Management Systems, Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
The Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) is used in thousands of universities across the United States and internationally, with a strong and growing presence in K-12 and higher education markets. ...
eric.ed.gov
May 8, 2026 at 2:31 AM
The timing of this Canvas hack made me laugh, since this is my class’s very next assigned reading (which they now can’t access lol) eric.ed.gov?q=lms+AND+k1...
I’ve officially surrendered to the age of life datafication by getting a Garmin watch. Let's see what the tradeoff is on my privacy #LifeData #WearableTech #FitnessTracker #Datafication
October 20, 2024 at 2:56 PM
I’ve officially surrendered to the age of life datafication by getting a Garmin watch. Let's see what the tradeoff is on my privacy #LifeData #WearableTech #FitnessTracker #Datafication
From Algorithmic Management to Data- driven Labour Organising. A trade union approach to workplace datafication
aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...
aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...
From Algorithmic Management to Data- driven Labour Organising. A trade union approach to workplace datafication
The increasing datafication of the workplace is often cast as a means of imposing organisational and managerial control on workers. This reflection note moves beyond this view and coins the term data-...
aisel.aisnet.org
July 7, 2024 at 1:01 PM
From Algorithmic Management to Data- driven Labour Organising. A trade union approach to workplace datafication
aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...
aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol36/i...