Dear all, Jennifer, Pybus, Stine Lomborg, Alessandro Gandini and Signe Sophus Lai are excited to announce the publication of Empirical Approaches to Infrastructures for Datafication<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/current> in New Media and Society, Volume 27 (4)! This Special Issue includes seven diverse theoretical and empirical articles offering novel understanding of datafication, driven by technological infrastructures that deeply permeate the most intimate aspects of human life. The authors and articles on “infrastructures for datafication<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448251314396>” include: Birch K, Komljenovic J and Sellar S (2025) Architectures of assetization: Legacy infrastructures and the configuration of datafication in UK higher education<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314400> Pybus J and Mir M (2025) Tracking menopause: An SDK Data Audit for intimate infrastructures of datafication with ChatGPT4o<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314401> Nieborg DB and Poell T (2025) Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314405> Flensburg S, Lai SS and Ørmen J (2025) At the mercy of the objects, we study: Epistemic consequences of proprietary digital research infrastructures<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448251314397> Grön K, Ruckenstein M and Chen Z (2025) Nothing is inevitable: The flexibility imaginary in the Chinese platform economy<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314404> Kaun A and Männiste M (2025) Public sector chatbots: AI frictions and data infrastructures at the interface of the digital welfare state<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314394> Matamoros-Fernández A and Jude N (2025) The importance of centering harm in data infrastructures for ‘soft moderation’: X’s Community Notes as a case study<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448251314399>