Organizers: NICK COULDRY, LSE, UK; LINA DENCIK, DATA JUSTICE LAB, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK; ANDREAS HEPP, ZEMKI, BREMEN, GERMANY; KARIN VAN ES, UTRECHT DATA SCHOOL, UTRECHT, HOLLAND with support of Pat Aufderheide, American U, DC Contact: n.couldry@lse.ac.uk; dencikl@cardiff.ac.uk; ahepp@uni-bremen.de; K.F.vanEs@uu.nl Division/Interest Group Affiliation(s): Communication and Technology Division and Philosophy Theory and Critique Division Description: The growth of automated data collection, processing and…

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During the session we will discuss the following readings: Beck Jorgensen, Toben Beck and Barry Bozeman. 2007. “Public Values: An Inventory.” Administration & Society 39(3): 354-381. Benington, John and Mark H. Moore. 2011 “Public Value in Complex and Changing Times.” In Public Value: Theory and Practice. Ed. Benington and Moore. Macmillian: UK. 1-30. Douglas, Scott…

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The workshop aims to bring together different public facing institutions and academic institutions to discuss concerns connected to the measurement of public values (e.g. diversity). The meeting will be kicked off by Prof. dr. William Uricchio (MIT) with a discussion of the colonization of the data imaginary in public facing institutions which will be followed…

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My name is Melissa Blekkenhorst. After finishing the Bachelor Media & Culture, I started the Master New Media & Digital Culture. As an intern of the Data School, I am joining the Gab project. This project focuses on the fringe platform Gab, which is a Twitter alternative that advocates free speech and has become popular…

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My name is Mauricio Salazar Landeros, and I’m part of the MA in New Media and Digital Culture at Utrecht University. In February, I got an internship at the Data School as part of the Gab Project. Currently, there is limited theory from scholars on the fringe platform and even less data-driven research; this provides…

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