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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…
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Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data
Editorial Notes Information technology affords that almost all aspects of our lives can be translated into data, data that are used for forecasting, assessment, real-time tracking, targeted advertising and polling. The practice of digitization and the role of electronic information media technology affects to various degrees almost all aspects of everyday life. Web platforms, such…
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Studying the Use of Social Media in Public Management and Police in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Social Media Use in Public Management and Police Social media are increasingly popular means for social interaction, sharing information and point of views. Among their users are also politicians, public institutions and corporations expanding their ways of communication through using social media. But social media also generate an enormous amount of data simply through their…
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Publicatie: “Between two Hypes”: Big Data and Landgrab
Met een interdisplinaire inspanning hebben Alex Gekker en Mirko Tobia Schäfer van de Data School en professor Annelies Zoomers van International Development Studies onderzocht hoe digitale methodes onderzoek informeert in de geowetenschappen. Kijkend naar het fenoneem van het landroof debat hebben de onderzoekers gekeken hoe data van social media platforms en website het perspectief van…
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Irene Westra wint Peter G. Swanborn prijs
Irene Westra, executive secretary van de Data School, heeft de prestigieuze Peter G. Swanborn prijs gewonnen voor haar bachelor scriptie in sociologie. Samen met co-auteur Elmira van den Broek heeft Irene onderzoek gedaan naar het effect van instituties op de mate van organisatorische prestaties van open source communities. In hun zorgvuldig onderzochte paper ‘The influence of institutions…