Abstract Real-time social media data hold great conceptual promise for research and policymaking, but also face substantial limitations and shortcomings inherent to processing re-purposed data in near-real-time. This paper aims to fill two research gaps important for understanding utility of...

The adoption of big data analysis in the legal domain is a recent but growing trend that highlights ethical concerns not just with big data analysis, as such, but also with its deployment in the legal domain. This article systematically analyses five big data use cases from the legal domain...

The concept of social investment in social policy design has gained progressive traction in scholarly debates and policy-making environments from the mid-1990s onwards. Building on the pioneering work of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union (EU) in 1997, calling attention to 'social policy...