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No technology is neutral. Dating apps like Tinder and Grindr can perpetuate stereotypical assumptions about sexual preferences and reinforce a racist flirting culture. Can the law intervene? |
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AI provides powerful tools to tackle climate change in various applications – but it is not a silver bullet. It can support the mitigation of climate change, for instance, by helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions within various applications. It can support adapting to a changing climate. AI can even support climate science itself. However, it can also be used to harm the climate. |
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While research ethics are a core component to all social research, digital ethnography poses an additional set of unique challenges that must be addressed while researching vulnerable populations, but still advice for digital ethnographers in terms of the ethical dilemmas of researching and marketing to vulnerable populations online is scarce. |
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Whenever there is a public debate on European platforms, the underlying discussion revolves around questions like: Why don’t we have a ‘European Google or Facebook’? Why don’t we compete globally in tech? Yet, platform businesses come in many shapes and sizes. |
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the higher education landscape is experiencing a moment of profound change with the rapid transition to distance and online learning. Bronwen Deacon and Moritz Timm highlight the institutional challenges posed to Higher Education and outline how these can be viewed as a window of opportunity. |
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The Wikipedia community has become a source of information for a broad and global public. Paul Börsting and Maximilian Heimstädt argue that contributing to the encyclopedia as a scholar can be a powerful way of achieving a strong societal impact of their own expertise. Furthermore they provide a guide on how to write your first contributions.
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Over the last few years, the interpretability of classification models has been a very active area of research. Recently, the concept of interpretability was given a more specific legal context. In 2016, the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), containing the right to explanation for people subjected to automated decision-making (ADM). The regulation itself is very reticent about what such a right might imply. As a result, since the introduction of the GDPR there has been an ongoing discussion about not only the need to introduce such a right, but also about its scope and practical consequences in the digital world. |
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Recent conflicts, particularly in Asia and Africa, have highlighted the potential for social media to provoke or exacerbate violent conflict and mass atrocities. The role of media and propaganda in disseminating hate and violence has been a longstanding aspect of war. In some cases of violent conflict, international actors—including the United Nations (UN)—have undertaken ‘information interventions’, a term that came into its own in the mid-1990s in response to the ongoing conflict in the Balkans, and the use of radio in the Rwandan genocide in 1992. While information intervention has historically been applied to mass media, this article explores the relevance and applicability of this approach to online communications, and social media in particular. |
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Once a month, we publicly discuss the impact of digitisation on society at Digitaler Salon. We invite special guests, engage in a dialogue with the audience and the Twitter community and broadcast it on YouTube. In June, we talked about regulations of internet platforms. This talk was held im German. |
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