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AI: Limits and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 288 pp.
"The emergence of artificial intelligence has triggered enthusiasm and promise of boundless opportunities as much as uncertainty about its limits. The contributions to this volume explore the limits of AI, describe the necessary conditions for its functionality, reveal its attendant technical and so
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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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“Shadowbanning is not a thing”: Black box gaslighting and the power to independently know and credibly critique algorithms
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1226-1243
"Efforts to govern algorithms have centerd the ‘black box problem,’or the opacity of algorithms resulting from corporate secrecy and technical complexity. In this article, I conceptualize a related and equally fundamental challenge for governance efforts: black box gaslighting. Black box gasligh
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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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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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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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Datafication, Power and Control in Development: A Historical Perspective on the Perils and Longevity of Data
Progress in Development Studies, volume 22, issue 4 (2022), pp. 352-373
"The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article,
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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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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.
"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso
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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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(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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Data Ethics Guidebook: Cultivating an Ethical Mindset in Research & Evaluation
Oakland, Cal.: Informing Change (2022), 37 pp.
Harnessing the Potential of Big Data in Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), 44 pp.
"This publication is the last of four reports from a regional study completed in 2021 and funded by the technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Policy Advice for COVID-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia. The project supports the recovery efforts of Southeast Asian countries t
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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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Automatisierte Entscheidungssysteme und Diskriminierung: Ursachen verstehen, Fälle erkennen, Betroffene unterstützen. Ein Ratgeber für Antidiskriminierungsstellen
Berlin: Algorithm Watch (2022), 26 pp.
"Diese Publikation ist im Rahmen des Projekts AutoCheck – Handlungsanleitung für den Umgang mit automatisierten Entscheidungssystemen für Antidiskriminierungsstellen entstanden. Sie ist eine erste Einführung in die Diskriminierungsrisiken beim Einsatz von automatisierten Entscheidungssystemen.
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Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xiv, 184 pp.
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we h
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A Treatment for Viral Deception? Automated Moderation of COVID-19 Disinformation
Universität Innsbruck (2022), 110 pp.
"This paper examines responses to disinformation, in particular those involving automated tools, from a human rights perspective. It provides an introduction to current automated content moderation and curation practices, and to the interrelation between the digital information ecosystem and the phe
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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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"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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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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