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Promoting and advancing human rights in global AI ecosystems: The need for a comprehensive framework under international law
Globethics Foundation; Responsible AI Network – Africa (RAIN-Africa) (2026), 33 pp.
"In response to far-reaching societal impacts of AI, policymakers are increasingly adopting a human rights lens for AI governance. However, the regulatory landscape remains fragmented and characterized by Western led initiatives as well as inconsistent enforcement. To address these limitations, a un
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"This toolkit advocates taking a Human Rights-based approach to data governance. This means ensuring that data practices—across the full data lifecycle from collection to (re()use— should respect, protect, and fulfill the rights and freedoms of individuals and communities. This also entails trea
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Digitale Ethik: Eine Einführung
Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag (2025), 585 pp.
"Die rasch voranschreitende Digitalisierung und der damit verbundene tiefgreifende Kulturwandel erfordern dringend ethische Reflexionen und mehr gesellschaftliche Gestaltung. In dieser Einführung werden wichtige Grundbegriffe und normative Leitideen geklärt. Im ersten Teil Digitale Medienethik geh
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The politics of data justice: Exit, voice, or rehumanisation?
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"Although many data justice projects envision just datafied societies, their focus on participatory ‘solutions’ to remedy injustice leaves important discussions out. For example, there has been little discussion of the meaning of data justice and its participatory underpinnings in authoritarian
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Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods
Cambridge (UK); Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press (2025), vii, 258 pp.
"The principal aims of this book are threefold. First, to produce a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) mapping of the conceptual and methodological terrain of Critical Data Studies (CDS). To that end, the book identifies the present state-of-play, providing succinct definitions and descriptions of
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Critical ICT4D: Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiv, 199 pp.
"The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority World and entering a process of restoring epistemic justice in knowledge produc
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Key Questions for AI in Public Institutions: Prompts and Resources to Spark Critical Conversation
Key Guides
""In this think piece we sketch the impacts and implications of corporate AI for institutions with a public interest orientation. We focus on public universities and social services as vital public institutions that have been widely understood as essential to democracy and social justice. Through a
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Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 14 pp.
"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit
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Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This paper investigates open public data and data sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022) and their potential role in deepening the ‘data divide’. In the contemporary datafied welfare state, open public data and data sharing are increasingly vexed issues in times of data-driven artificial in
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Putting data solidarity into practice. A guide for public and private organizations, authorities and policymakers
Geneva: Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab); University of Vienna (2025), 51 pp.
"There is an urgent need for frameworks that prioritize fairness and inclusivity in the digital age. Data solidarity offers such a framework, aiming to achieve a more equitable distribution of benefits and risks in digital practices. Key to this approach is the concept of public value: the societal
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: A Global Synthesis of the State of Knowledge on New Media, AI and Data Governance
Deep Insights
Paris: International Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), xxxvi, 265 pp.
"This report is an invitation to grapple with the complex interplay between infrastructure, media systems, civil society, and public sector institutions. Our findings suggest that effective policy solutions must: acknowledge the historical, political, economic, and social forces that shape informati
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De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2025), ix, 524 pp.
"The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminological concepts, the book defines and further establishes a vibrant, rapidly developing field. Focus
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Communication and democracy in Brazil and Germany: Media accountability, public service media, internet access and right to information
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2025), 304 pp.
"The expertise brought by three important Brazilian public universities (Unesp, UnB, and UFSC), combined with the knowledge accumulated through research investment by the Technische Universität Dortmund, was taken here as a unique and rich source of knowledge capable of avoiding the pitfalls and ov
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The State of Knowledge on News Media, AI, and Data Governance
Göteborg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg; Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), 305 pp.
"A critical assessment of why today’s information ecosystems are troubling for democracy, this book, based on research in the Global North and Global Majority World, examines changes in news media, artificial intelligence, and data governance. It focuses on measures to improve the quality of publi
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"This anthology is the result of a global collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and activists who come together to reflect on the expanding role of platforms in an increasingly digitized world. As platformization reshapes economies, politics, and everyday interactions, it brings with it new f
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Critical Datafication Literacy: A Framework and Practical Approaches
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 294 pp.
Despite the increasing influence of data technologies on our world, many people still lack a profound understanding of what this ›datafication‹ means for their lives and our societies. Ina Sander argues that this knowledge gap cannot be addressed by digital skills alone, but that more critical a
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Maori data sovereignty: Contributions to data cultures in the government sector in New Zealand
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 16 (2024), pp. 2801-2816
"Maori data sovereignty, an extension of Indigenous data sovereignty, is gaining recognition as a vital element of data-related strategy, management, policy, and culture in New Zealand. Driven by the principles of tino-rangatiratanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Maori data sovereignty emphasizes Maori
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Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan’s open government data policy in the 2010s
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 12 pp.
"What kind of “democracy” do new government-led digital initiatives facilitate? This paper discusses the issue by investigating the open government data policy in Taiwan in the 2010s, asking whether the policy encouraged “strong democracy.” Using interviews, written records, and an analysis
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Against decolonial reductionism: The impact of Latin American thinking on the data decolonization project
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 5 pp.
"This essay argues that Latin American scholarship and movement practice are key to understanding the dynamics of the datafied society and countering its inequities. Examining the sources of inspiration of a frontrunner seeking to decolonize the datafied society – the Big Data from the South Initi
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Critical data studies with Latin America: Theorizing beyond data colonialism
Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.
"The article aims to theorize about critical data studies with Latin America beyond the framework of data colonialism, arguing that the long history of social thought in the region can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the datafication. It discusses views around dependence, oppressions,
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