How is the ongoing “datafication” in society experienced by consumers? Critical discussions regarding impact of datafication on consumers seldom study consumers’ actual experiences. Conversely, studies that do exist and their experiences tend to take an individualistic approach, arguing how experience respond result individual psychological make-up or processes cost–benefit calculations. Agains...

Techniques to classify opinion or sentiment in text as either positive or negative employ features such as individual words, bigrams, and part-of-speech patterns. When individual words and bigrams are employed, both the frequency of their presence and their predetermined probable polarity are used to decide the polarity of the text to be classified; neutral words and bigrams are not useful in t...

The article introduces an international Special Issue that addresses the significant question of how and why people organise to engage with policy making in public sphere education, from a historical perspective. Focusing on phenomenon ‘grassroots' community organising during key formation period 1970s 1980s, issue collects articles Australia, Canada, Chile, South Korea, Spain (Catalonia) Unite...

Abstract The costs of the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be calculated, but they include loss millions lives and destruction countless livelihoods. What is certain that SARS-CoV-2 virus has changed way we live for foreseeable future. It forced many in ways would have previously thought impossible. As well as challenging scientists medical professionals address urgent value conflicts short term, r...

This article examines the significance of race in how nation is articulated by white middle-classes ‘post-racial’ Britain. In doing so, it highlights centrality bodies and informal markers difference within processes national recognition reveals a normative expectation for British racialised as non-white to perform or inhabit (particular kinds of) whiteness. Bringing insights from post-race the...