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Launch Big Data Histories issue
You are cordially invited to the launch of the ‘Big Data Histories’ special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History Please RSVP via this GoogleForm Programme 15.30 Opening by issue editors Karin van Es (UU) and Eef Masson (UvA) 15.40 “The Database Revolution, 1970s/80s” – Dr. Niels Kerssens 16.10 “Unmasking Biometrics’ Biases” – Rosa…
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Disrupting Technologies of Trust: Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of the Platform Economy
Please register now This UGlobe Dialogue on technological innovation will address the complex interaction of trust, regulation, and data technology, in the context of the platform economy, such as Airbnb, Uber and ‘reputational technologies’. What are the central concerns regarding ‘trust’ sustaining platform economies, and what principles should guide the ongoing development? Programme and Speakers…
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Gartner calls Digital Ethics a strategic trend for 2019 – but ethics are not enough
In its most recent predictions of trends for the coming year, Gartner indicates digital ethics and privacy as a top strategy for companies. As the technology and financial industries, governments and even research institutions grapple with ethical issues raised through the data practices and their social impact, ethics starts to fill the vacuum left by…
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Mirko Tobias Schäfer on Entrepreneurial Research
For “Big data Histories”, a special issue of the Journal for Media History, Karin van Es and Eef Masson interviewed the Data School co-founder and project lead Mirko Tobias Schäfer. In this interview he describes our distinct approach to research the impact of data and digitization. Initially it was lack of funding that pointed us…
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Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis | Mirko Tobias Schäfer on Entrepreneurial Research
For “Big data Histories”, a special issue of the Journal for Media History, Karin van Es and Eef Masson interviewed the Data School co-founder and project lead Mirko Tobias Schäfer. In this interview he describes our distinct approach to research the impact of data and digitization. Initially it was lack of funding that pointed us…