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Algorithmic transparency and accountability in the world of work: A mapping study into the activities of trade unions
Algorithm Watch; International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) (2023), 29 pp.
"This report, prepared by AlgorithmWatch for the ITUC, looks at examples from around the world of how unions are tackling the crucial issues of transparency and regulation in relation to algorithms. It reveals that while there is a substantial and growing body of trade union knowledge and policy, th
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What Do We Know About Algorithmic Literacy? The Status Quo and a Research Agenda for a Growing Field
New Media & Society, volume 27, issue 2 (2023), pp. 681-701
"The increasing role of algorithms shaping our use of communication technology—particularly on social media—comes with a growth of empirical research attempting to assess how literate users are regarding these algorithms. This rapidly emerging field is marked by great diversity in terms of how i
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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.
"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo
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Media Analytics: Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century
New York; London: Routledge (2023), xxi, 416 pp.
"This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using data sets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. M
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The Dynamics of Influencer Marketing: A Multidisciplinary Approach
London; New York: Routledge (2023), ix, 210 pp.
"YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitter, etc. have their own logics, dynamics and different audiences. This book analyses how the users of these social networks, especially those of YouTube and Instagram, become content prescribers, opinion leaders and, by extension, people of influence. What
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Data Sharing to Foster Information as a Public Good: The Case of Media Viability and Safety of Journalists in the Digital Ecosystem
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.
"Trends towards greater transparency of platforms, in the form of extending cooperation around data, offer benefit to the interests of all stakeholders. This policy brief considers the normative, institutional and technical mechanisms that support access to datasets that are not accessible generally
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Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft. Freiheitsrechte unter Druck: Schwerpunkt Digitalisierung
München; Berlin: oekom Verlag; Brot für die Welt (2022), 86 pp.
"Vielfaltig, unzensiert, demokratiefördernd - das ist das Internet, hofften viele Menschen lange. Doch diese Attribute passen aus heutiger Sicht nicht - oder nur teilweise. Denn die großen digitalen Plattformen und das World Wide Web sind beides: Medien der Freiheit und der Kontrolle. Sie helfen d
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Digitalisation and Civic Space: Chances and Challenges
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.
"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s
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Datafest Africa22 Report
Datafest Africa; Pollicy (2022), 18 pp.
"DataFest Africa is an annual event that seeks to celebrate data use in the region by bringing together a variety of stakeholders of diverse backgrounds such as government, civil society, academics, students and private industry experts under one roof and theme. Since 2019, Pollicy, with support fro
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Topic and Sentiment Analysis of Responses to Muslim Clerics’ Misinformation Correction About COVID-19 Vaccine: Comparison of Three Machine Learning Models
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 497-523
"This study employed three machine learning algorithms, Naïve Bayes, SVM, and a Balanced Random Forest to build a sentiment model that can detect Muslim sentiment about Muslim clerics’ anti-misinformation campaign on YouTube. Overall, 9701 comments were collected. An LDA-based topic model was als
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How Publishers Are Learning to Create and Distribute News on TikTok
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 35 pp.
"This report sets out data on the extent of publisher adoption alongside motivations for joining TikTok; pulls together top tips from TikTok creators and discuss the metrics most commonly used to evaluate success; explores different strategies for engaging users on the platform, highlighting case st
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Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 308 pp.
"What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices bo
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Private Gatekeepers: Encrypted Messaging Apps and News Audiences
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 20 pp.
"This report examines the widespread use of encrypted messaging apps (EMAs) in developing countries and emerging democracies has prompted news outlets in these regions to experiment with them as mechanisms for distributing the news. From news products designed specifically for sharing via EMAs to pr
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"The goal of this Data Governance Toolkit is to guide non-profit organizations through the steps and best practices for implementing Data Governance within your organization, while keeping in mind the changing organization IT landscape, enterprise architecture and program deliverables. To support or
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Digitale Gesellschaft
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 72, issue 10-11 (2022), 56 pp.
"Die Coronapandemie hat schonungslos die Schwachstellen der digitalen Gesellschaft aufgedeckt: die Digitalisierungsdefizite der öffentlichen Verwaltung, die schlechte digitale Ausstattung der Schulen und Universitäten, die Monopolstellung internationaler Digitalkonzerne, die Polarisierung in den s
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Data Ethics Guidebook: Cultivating an Ethical Mindset in Research & Evaluation
Oakland, Cal.: Informing Change (2022), 37 pp.
Data Ethics Toolkit: A companion to the Data Ethics Guidebook
Oakland, Cal.: Informing Change (2022), 21 pp.
"This Toolkit is a companion resource to the Guidebook for Ethical Thinking. Its contents represent practical tools for putting the Guidebook recommendations into practice, from a one-page map for ethical thinking to customizable consent forms to Stories from the Field." (Page 2)
(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies: Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 377 pp.
"Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also
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Civic Participation in the Datafied Society: Towards Democratic Auditing?
Data Justice Lab; Cardiff University (2022), 188 pp.
"Digital infrastructure increasingly enables the extraction, exploitation, processing and analysis of personal and behavioural data. Data analytics have not just become the core of the digital economy but also constitute a growing feature of the public sector. Wide areas of public administration are
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