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Opening DataWorkplace
Data School and Utrecht School of Governance cooperate since January in a joint research programme with the municipalities of Almere, Gouda and Woerden, and the Province South-Holland. The DataWorkplace investigates how datafication transforms public management and policy making. Six months into the project, a festive opening of the DataWorkplace took place at 18 September. Utrecht…
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ICA preconference #JODS
video registration JUSTICE AND ORDER IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CONNECTING COMMUNICATIONS AND LEGAL THEORY Preconference for ICA 2019, Washington DC, Friday May 24, 2019 held at the University of Washington School of Law Organized by: Nick Couldry (London School of Economics), Lina Dencik (Cardiff University), Karin van Es (Data School), and Andreas Hepp (University of…
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Datafication and Colonialism: A Short Review by Dennis Jansen
Review of “The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory still Matters!” by prof. dr. Nick Couldry at Utrecht University, 12 June 2019 It is undeniable that the increasing datafication of both Western and non-Western societies involves profound changes in our political and socioeconomic structures, but how should we understand those changes?…
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Prof. dr. Mireille Hildebrandt: Legal protection by design
Hosted by the special interest group Principles by design (Governing the Digital Society), Utrecht University in the Netherlands Join the luncheon Lawyers and computer scientists tend to turn the domain of the ‘other’ into a black box, assuming that the output of their respective domains is a collection of uncontested scientifically sound truths. With the…
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Funda Ustek-Spilda: Fairwork by design
Hosted by the special interest group Principles by design (Governing the Digital Society), Utrecht University in the Netherlands. What are the principles of fair work in the gig economy and how can these be implemented at the startup and development stage of a platform? These are the two central questions of my talk, where I…