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Governing the Digital Society is a new focus area at Utrecht University
One of the four newly identified focus areas at Utrecht University is Governing the Digital Society. Focus areas interdisciplinarily address research objects of societal relevance and develop novel ways of scientific inquiry. The four new focus areas will receive a total of 1,6 million Euro funding for the period September 2019 to August 2023. Big…
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Heeft uw organisatie een datavraagstuk? Werk samen met Data School!
De ‘datarevolutie’, ‘data is de nieuwe olie’, men hoort steeds vaker grootse uitspraken over dataficatie. Maar wat kunt u met alle data die uw organisatie vergaart? En ook: wat kun u er niet mee? Data School houdt zich bezig met dit soort vragen en met sociaal-maatschappelijke en ethische vraagstukken met betrekking tot data. U kunt…
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Call for Participants | Data School Summer School 2019: ‘Exploring Culture Through Data’
Data School welcomes students (and non-students) from all Universities to join us in 5-day crash course in data practices and digital methods. During this week we will acquire the handles and perspectives to study culture through data practices. We are happy to invite you to the 2019 Data School summer edition that will take place…
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Disrupting Technologies of Trust: Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of the Platform Economy
Date: Wednesday 12 December 2018 Time: 15.15 – 17.00 Location: Eetkamer, Drift 27, University Library City Centre, Utrecht 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…
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Journal for Media History | Mirko Tobias Schäfer on Entrepreneurial Research
For “Big data Histories”, a special issue of the TMG 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…