There are few disciplines that have yet to be touched by the affordances (and limitations) of big data. The questions we face as scholars and teachers continue to multiply: What are the possibilities of big data (however conceived) for our working lives? What pressures does it present for scholarly and professional labor? And who gets to control this kind of information, and toward what ends? We may not agree on what the present and future of these themes portend for us all, but this part of the seminar might reveal the convergence and divergences we all face moving forward…