From the beginning, the panel had a shared understanding that Critical Data Studies would include or touch upon the inquiry of platforms, algorithms, and data. Informed by software studies, media studies, and the science of technology studies, the emerging Critical Data Studies seem inherently to combine qualitative empirical research methods with digital methods and data…

Editorial Notes Information technology affords that almost all aspects of our lives can be translated into data, data that are used for forecasting, assessment, real-time tracking, targeted advertising and polling. The practice of digitization and the role of electronic information media technology affects to various degrees almost all aspects of everyday life. Web platforms, such…

Social Media Use in Public Management and Police Social media are increasingly popular means for social interaction, sharing information and point of views. Among their users are also politicians, public institutions and corporations expanding their ways of communication through using social media. But social media also generate an enormous amount of data simply through their…

-this internship is located at University of Duisburg-Essen; working language: German and English- Data appear to be everywhere: as many processes of everyday life currently produce data, from cell phones over shopping transactions to online media. Wherever an electronic process of information processing is involved, data are generated; data which are available for analysis. Simply…

Mirko Tobias Schäfer appointed Mercator Research Fellow at the NRW School of Governance Mirko Tobias Schäfer, co-founder of the Data School has been appointed a Mercator Research Fellow at the NRW School of Governance for the year of 2016. Funded by the Stiftung Mercator the fellowship is a prestigious exchange program to facilitate visiting professorships…

In an interdisciplinary effort, Alex Gekker and Mirko Tobias Schäfer from the Data School and professor Annelies Zoomers from International Development Studies have investigated how digital methods inform research in the geo sciences. looking at the phenomenon of the landgrab debate, the researchers show how the data from social media platforms and websites can enrich…

Irene Westra, executive secretary at Data School, has been awarded the prestigious Peter G. Swanborn award for her BA thesis in sociology. Together with her co-author Elmira van den Broek, Irene investigated the impact of institutions on the organizational performance of open source communities. In their meticulously researched paper ‘The influence of institutions on organizational…

Gerwin van Schie, Irene Westra and Mirko Tobias Schäfer presented their research on ethical challenges in data-driven research at the workshop “Standards, Disruptions and Values in Digital Culture and Communication”. As novel data-driven methods stir up some dust within departments that were seldom confronted with questioning their own professional standards of conduct. With unprecedented access…

First Credit Research is looking for a freelancer that can support us with maintaining and creating Tableau dashboards. First Credit Research analyzes the 100 largest economies in the world, including their financial markets and a wide range of influential factors such as social, demographic and political circumstances. You will be assisting our Tableau specialists in…

Mapping Issue and Online Publics in Realtime, hackathon 24 & 25 March The Nuclear Security Summit will be the Netherlands most watched event in 2014. 58 political leaders convene in The Hague to discuss nuclear safety in an unstable world. We expect this high impact event to trend on social media as well as stimulating…