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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xvi, 786 pp.
"The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover thirty-seven topics: from the right to have access to internet, to trolling and online shamin
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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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Philosophische Digitalisierungsforschung: Verantwortung, Verständigung, Vernunft, Macht
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 464 pp.
"Digitalisierung ist nicht nur ein technisches Geschehen, sondern erfasst als machtvoller kultureller Prozess alle Lebensbereiche. Die Einsicht, dass soziotechnische Vorgänge gestaltbar sind, erlaubt eine grundsätzliche Reflexion über die neuen Handlungsmöglichkeiten und Zumutungen sowohl in ind
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Advancing Cloud and Data Infrastructure Markets: Strategic Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Washington, DC: World Bank (2024), xx, 139 pp.
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
London: WH Allen (2024), x, 303 pp.
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populati
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Künstliche Intelligenz und ethische Verantwortung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 264 pp.
"Wie sieht ethische Verantwortung im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung, Datafizierung und Künstlichen Intelligenz aus? Die Beiträger*innen geben fundierte Einsichten in die KI-gestützte Entscheidungs- und Urteilsfindung. Von der digitalen Operationalisierung über die Rolle des Menschen im Zentrum de
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Mapping Scholarship on Algorithmic Bias: Conceptualization, Empirical Results, and Ethical Concerns
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 548-569
"As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more seamlessly integrated into our social life, the unfair outcomes and ethical issues associated with AI and its subtechnologies have been widely discussed in scholarly work across disciplines in recent years. This study provides an overview of the conceptu
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Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 13 pp.
"Political and moral/religious contents are increasingly popular on TikTok, and the concerns associated with them create the premises for a re-exploration of the user–machine agency negotiation. Using algorithmic awareness as a process, this research examines the relationship between users’ awar
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Momente der Datafizierung: Zur Produktionsweise von Personendaten in der Datenökonomie
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 257 pp.
Contesting personalized recommender systems: A cross-country analysis of user preferences
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube wield substantial influence over digital information flows using sophisticated algorithmic recommender systems (RS). As these systems curate personalized content, concerns have emerged about their propensity to amplify polar
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Countering Disinformation Effectively: An Evidence-Based Policy Guide
Key Guides
Washinton, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2024), vii, 119 pp.
"This report offers a high-level, evidence-informed guide to some of the major proposals for how democratic governments, platforms, and others can counter disinformation. It distills core insights from empirical research and real-world data on ten diverse kinds of policy interventions, including fac
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Algorithmic Regimes: Methods, Interactions, and Politics
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 346 pp.
"Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound impli
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Toward a popular theory of algorithms
Popular Communication, volume 21, issue 1 (2023), pp. 57-70
"This paper establishes dialogs between theories on the popular and critical studies on algorithms and datafication. In doing so, it contributes to reversing the analytical tendency to assume that algorithms have universal effects and that conclusions about “algorithmic power” in the Global Nort
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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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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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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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