While data have always been a central element of information systems and their study, their importance as a medium of knowing, acting, and relating in business and organizations has vastly grown over the last two decades. As these developments disrupt some of the old ways of studying and managing data, and new streams of research emerge to answer new questions about data, what is ‘data studies’ in all this and do we even need it? 

BIO

Aleksi Aaltonen is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology and serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Information Technology. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and studies data and data-based innovation and organizing using a variety of methods.

His publications have appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and in other high-quality journals.

Before joining academia, Aleksi worked for CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation founded by Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, and founded an activity tracking app Moves that was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He currently maintains the Data Studies Bibliography,  that is a resource for management scholars interested in data as an object of research. You can read more about Aleksi from his website.

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