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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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Call for Participants | Data School Summer School 2018: ‘Studying Culture Through Data’
As of 2017 we at Data School host a Summer School in preparation of the commencing academic year. This summer we are opening up our 5-day crash course in data practices and digital methods, to students (and non-students) from outside Utrecht University as well. We are happy to invite you to the 2018 Data School summer…
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Onderzoek naar de Nederlandse Twittersfeer
Door: Maranke Wieringa, Ludo Gorzeman, Daniela van Geenen, Mirko Tobias Schäfer In een team van onderzoekers verbonden aan de Data School (Universiteit Utrecht) en de Hogeschool Utrecht, voornamelijk het lectoraat Crossmediale Kwaliteitsjournalistiek zijn we in een langlopend project bezig om de Nerderlangs(talig)e Twittersfeer in kaart te brengen. Het onderzoek in opdracht van Vrij Nederland en Nieuwsuur is…
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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…