Data Industrialization: Between Datafication Commodification, and Digital Infrastructure

Digital fitness: Self-monitored fitness and the commodification of movement

This article moves beyond a history of domestic home video fitness programs to explore digital fitness with specific attention to the self-monitored fitness ‘movement’ and the hardware and software that facilitate its proliferation. The research in this area is currently conducted through preliminary small scale studies, alongside some flawed but still (inadvertently) useful undergraduate and g...

'Datafication': making sense of (big) data in a complex world

European Journal of Information Systems (2013) 22, 381–386. doi:10.1057/ejis.2013.10 Introduction Business Intelligence (BI) is a topic of growing importance for both industry and academia. Although still viewed from its technology roots, it is slowly broadening to encompass the data infrastructure, applications, tools and best practices required for the effective capture, representation and de...

Big data privacy: The datafication of personal information

The commodification of patient opinion: the digital patient experience economy in the age of big data.

As part of the digital health phenomenon, a plethora of interactive digital media platforms have been established in recent years to elicit lay people's experiences of illness and health care. The overt function of these platforms is to provide forums where patients and caregivers can share their experiences with others, benefit from the support and knowledge of other users and contribute to la...

Scalable Data Collection Infrastructure for Digital Government Applications

Highlights are presented of a proje t on the development of a s alable data olle tion infrastru ture of digital government appli ations. The approa h takes advantage of both the distributed nature of the data and the distributed ways of intera ting with it. The approa h is three-parted having theoreti al, systems, and appli ation omponents. On the theoreti al and systems levels, work has ontinu...