In this episode, we focus on remaining fears and challenges associated with algorithms: bubbles and loops, the alignment problem, and opaqueness. We close the discussion of algorithms by an account what can be done to improve their uses in society.
Dec 7, 2023
33 min
In this episode, we focus on algorithmic action and fairness.
Dec 6, 2023
21 min
Algorithms are also used to provide suggestions and advice.Iit is helpful to differentiate between algorithms providing advice and suggestions to experts and those providing advice and suggestions for lay people and users of digital communication environments and services.
Dec 5, 2023
18 min
Algorithms are sets of steps by which to solve pre-defined tasks. Today the term appears predominantly in connection with computing. Algorithms allow computers to perform tasks. They are crucial in the advances of computer-enabled analysis and automation.
Dec 4, 2023
22 min
This episode sketches the tensions that arise from the drive to generate data-enabled insights and people's expectations and rights to privacy.
Nov 16, 2023
22 min
Data provide a reduced representation of the world and promise to uncover hidden patterns and connections between entities that remain invisible in their full, unreduced manifestation in the world. This allows people and organizations to make sense of the world, and increase their level of control.
Nov 15, 2023
23 min
Quantification makes some things visible, while hiding others. To better understand this process, we have to examine how things become numbers, we have to examine measurement.
Nov 14, 2023
18 min
Data are crucial for the discussion of politics and digital media. Understanding the core concepts and issues arising from the quantification of social and political life and the resulting data is important for engaging in many of the subsequent controversies of the uses of digital media in politics.
Nov 13, 2023
23 min
Keynote zur Gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik, dem Arbeitskreis Politik und Kommunikation (DVPW) und der Fachgruppe Politische Kommunikation (SGKM) an der Universität Trier vom 29. September 2022.
Oct 4, 2022
32 min
In this episode, we look at three studies illustrating how to approach different aspects of the contemporary public arena empirically.
Jul 18, 2022
24 min
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