Big Data, Social Media, Computational Journalism, Industry 4.0 – Behind all these codes, the assumption of a profound change of society through the possibilities of digital data processing and use keeps shining through. But what significance do data really bear? And what do the respective practices mean for the ordering of a society permeated with digital media? From several perspectives, the contributors point out possibilities for honing the theoretical and empirical inventory of social sciences on the topic of digitization.
