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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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Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2024), 226 pp.
"This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of
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Digitale Ethik
Deep Insights
Baden-Baden: Nomos; Verlag Karl Alber (2024), 661 pp.
"Das neue umfassende Standardwerk für den Bereich der Digitalen Ethik. Das Handbuch verschafft einen Überblick über die Herausforderungen und Besonderheiten der Ethik im digitalen Raum und versammelt namhafte Expert:innen zu folgenden Themenfeldern: Theoretische Zugänge (Deontologische Ansätze,
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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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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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Problem-solving? No, problem-opening! A method to reframe and teach data ethics as a transdisciplinary endeavour
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Starting from the recognition of the limits of today’s common essentialist and axiological understandings of data and ethics, in this article we make the case for an ecosystemic understanding of data ethics (for the city) that accounts for the inherent value-laden entanglements and unintended (bo
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Data Solidarity Glossary
Deep Insights
Geneva: Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab) (2024), 54 pp.
"This glossary seeks to clarify key concepts relevant to data solidarity and explain data solidarity’s relationship to other key concepts and instruments in the domain of data governance and data ethics. It complements previous publications on this topic and in particular, the White Paper on Data
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An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option
Big Data & Society (2024), 13 pp.
"The frameworks of cyber, technology and data sovereignty have become some of the most influential alternative technological imaginaries. Developed by states and civil society groups, such frameworks are seducing a broad range of actors seeking to reassert their autonomy and self-determination in re
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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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Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook
Deep Insights
Cham: Springer Nature (2024), 637 pp.
"This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a bett
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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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Log out_: A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 313 pp.
Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 291 pp.
"Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result
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Towards Effective Data Governance in Africa: Progress, Initiatives & Challenges
Kampala: Pollicy (2023), iii, 20 pp.
"This desk review report provides an overview of data governance in Africa, exploring policy frameworks, implementation challenges, regional collaborations, capacity building, governmental initiatives, civil society engagement, and academia's role. The continent's increasing reliance on digital syst
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Observatory Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2023), 62 pp.
"Authoritarian practices are not strictly limited to authoritarian states; they are employed by regimes that span the political spectrum. The research approach argues for expanding the understanding of key authoritarian strategies to include persuasion alongside coercion and cooptation, which are id
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Resisting data colonialism: A practical intervention
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures; Tierra Común Network (2023), 117 pp.
Data Governance in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 12 pp.
"Recent legislation on data linking national security and cybersecurity undermines the creation of a trustworthy data environment. Restrictions on information flows have immediate and medium-term costs to digital economic activity, which in turn have knock-on effects for the prospect of any subseque
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Was heißt digitale Souveränität? Diskurse, Praktiken und Voraussetzungen »individueller« und »staatlicher Souveränität« im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 320 pp.
"Die neuen sozio-technischen Verhältnisse der digitalen Transformation fordern neuzeitliche Konzepte des »souveränen Staates« und des »souveränen Subjekts« heraus, was in Debatten um »digitale Souveränität« problematisiert wird. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes diskutieren diese Herausford
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Data Governance
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 11 pp.
"Data governance is an integral aspect of digital authoritarianism because it incorporates any type of control, authority, and manipulation of data […]. Within the context of digital authoritarianism, data governance may incorporate both states and non-state actors that collaborate with states to
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Data sovereignty in agricultural value chains
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 50 pp.
