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Mirko Tobias Schäfer appointed Mercator Research Fellow at the NRW School of Governance
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…
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Research Internship: Investigating social media metrics in politics and public management
‘-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…
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Why data need ethics / The more data affect people, the more ethics matter
Tracing ethical issues in data projects with the Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA) Data, algorithms and models are not simply neutral. On the contrary, they can constitute significant social impact and affect the individual livelihood as much as larger parts of society. Recently the Unemployment Agency of Michigan has been criticized for using a software…
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Future Directions of Critical Data Studies
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…
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Workshop: Research Ethics for Data & Digital Methods
Why New data resources and novel tools for analysis provide opportunities and challenges for researchers. The use of social media in research practices, or the disputed Facebook study, the leaked Ashley Madison data set or the Cablegate database are only few of many example that pressure researchers to revisit research ethics. In response to the…