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Weizenbaum Panel: Politische Partizipation in Deutschland 2022, WP4-22 [Fragebogendokumentation]
Get PDFDie hier zum Download bereitstehende Fragebogendokumentation enthält den Fragebogen, welcher in der vierten Befragungswelle im Erhebungszeitraum von Anfang Oktober bis Mitte Dezember 2022 verwendet wurde.
This questionnaire was used in the forth survey wave from the beginning of October to mid-December 2022.
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**Erhebungsmodus:** Computerunterstützte telefonische Befragung (CATI)
**Sprache der Befragung:** deutsch
**Erhobene Konstrukte:**
- – Medien- und Social-Media-Nutzung, politische Mediennutzung
- – Politisches Interesse, Political Efficacy und Politisches Vertrauen
- – Demokratieverständnis und -zufriedenheit, Autoritarismus
- – Bürgernormen und politische Partizipation (inkl. Umweltschutz)
- – Politische Orientierung und feministische Einstellungen
- – Reaktion auf Hasskommentare und Falschnachrichten im Internet (Online Civic Intervention)
- – Soziodemographi
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains
Get PDFThis article explores the position of industrial Internet platforms (IIPs) in manufacturing value chains. We develop an understanding of the role of data in global value chains (GVCs), referring to literature on intangible assets and theories on platform business models. We use data from a qualitative empirical study based on 33 interviews on platforms active on the German market to answer (1) whether there are tendencies of oligopolization that lead to an accumulation of power on the side of the platforms, and (2) whether it is the platforms that capture most of the gains derived from higher productivity or lower transaction costs. The analysis shows that platforms mainly act as service providers and/or intermediaries that support manufacturing companies in reaping benefits from data. While the relationship between platforms and manufacturers currently corresponds to a symbiosis, a stronger power imbalance could evolve in the future since processes of oligopolization are likely
Purple Code – With Mona Sloane
No full textIn this episode, we are talking to Mona Sloane, a New York University (NYU) based sociologist working on design and inequality, specifically in the context of AI design and policy. Mona talks with us about her many struggles and her engagement as a feminist tech researcher and activist who strives for more justice in the digital world. One of her many projects is the Terra Incognita NYC project, an investigation of New York City’s digital public spaces in the pandemic, a project that showed the escalated impact of well-known issues that exist within digital space—such as the digital divide, harassment, disproportionately impacted communities. In 2020, Mona was added to the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame”. Mona is a Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible AI, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, as well as a Fellow with NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK)
Political Theory of the Digital Constellation
Get PDFThe introductory contribution to this special issue on “Political Theory of the Digital Constellation” addresses the conditions and possibilities of political the- ory’s engagement with digital developments. The motivation for this inquiry is the growing interest in questions of political theory arising from the digital transforma- tion, as well as the acknowledgement that digitalisation not only changes politics, but conversely that politics also shapes digitalisation. The article identifies three pitfalls of previous engagement: The narrowing of the subject of “digitalisation” to the topic of the “internet” and, thereby, to the aspect of communication, the disre- gard for the technicality of the digital, and the insufficient recognition that (digital) technology is political. To avoid these pitfalls, the research perspective of the digi- tal constellation is presented. The digital constellation serves as an epistemological guide that helps to structure theoretical reflection on the interrelationship between digitalisation and political questions. Ultimately, the outlines of the political theory in the digital constellation become clear in the fourteen contributions of the special volume, which are presented in conclusion
Purple Code – With Rukhsana
No full textRukhsana* is a queer software developer and poet who recently moved to Berlin. In this episode, Rukhsana talks about her journey in designing software, coming from South Asia and the particularities of power during the migration process. She talks about how she has managed to take space – both by chance and by the efforts of her family – in the tech field that has been dominated by a narrow section of people. We also discuss if diversity in high positions in the tech space can change things from within or if there are structural conditions that need larger solutions. On poetry, Rukhsana elucidates, “I have grown to see poetry beyond a language; for me poetry has transcended language, so I often feel that I carry poetry with me just walking on the streets, by observing beautiful things, by having lovely conversations, that is also poetic for me. So, for me poetry does not need to be in a language, on a piece of paper, or to be expressed always. But when I feel the need to express, I write. It also gives me the freedom to write when I want to.” *Name has been changed to protect the identity of the guest
Jahresbericht 2021–2022
No full textFür unser noch junges Weizenbaum-Institut war der September 2022 eine wichtige Zäsur: Nach der fünfjährigen Aufbauphase sind wir im Herbst in die Etablierungsphase gestartet. Also ein geeigneter Moment für eine Zwischenbilanz, die wir in diesem Jahresbericht ziehen wollen: Was haben wir erreicht? Welchen Weg schlagen wir ein, damit aus dem Projekt „Weizenbaum-Institut“ eine eigenständige Forschungseinrichtung wird
Purple Code – With Leil-Zahra Mortada
No full textIn this episode, our conversation with Leil-Zahra Mortada draws from their expertise on digital rights, online security, and open source investigations from anticolonial, feminist and queer perspectives. Their work spans across the fields of art/ filmmaking, activism and research, and includes the archival project “Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution”; the awarded “Breakup in 9 Scenes”, and the decolonial-feminist music research project Sound Frontier focusing on marginalized music and sound art. Apart from their work with different organizations Indymedia, Mozilla Foundation and Tactical Tech, Leil-Zahra has also been part of forming several political collectives and alternative media groups in Lebanon, Egypt, Spain and elsewhere. By working on the intersections of human rights and digital technologies, Leil-Zahra brings forth several pertinent questions in this episode: who produces digital technologies and whose rights are included? How do marginalized communities engage with them? And what are the alternatives to present day technologies? The interdisciplinary nature of their work further facilitates our discussions on the structural frames for studying digital technologies
Supplementary Material for “A Common Effort: New Divisions of Labor Between Journalism and OSINT Communities on Digital Platforms”
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Zusammenarbeit und Produktivität im Team: Erfahrungen agiler, hybrider und traditioneller Teams im Homeoffice während der COVID-19-Pandemie
Get PDFDie Umstellung auf Homeoffice während der COVID-19-Pandemie war eine Herausforderung für Teams. Die sozialen Kontakte und die Vielzahl informeller Begegnungen und Kommunikationsströme nahmen ab, die Interaktion fand vor allem virtuell statt und erforderte neue Kommunikationsmuster. In der vorliegenden, auf einer Befragung von 1.516 Erwerbstätigen beruhenden, Studie wurde untersucht (1) welche organisatorischen, aber auch technischen Bedingungen die Arbeit im Homeoffice während der COVID-19-Pandemie prägen, (2) wie sich die Zusammenarbeit in unterschiedlichen Formen der Teamarbeit unter den Bedingungen des Homeoffice während der COVID-19-Pandemie entwickelt hat und (3) welche Auswirkungen des Homeoffice sich während der COVID-19-Pandemie im Hinblick auf die Produktivität der Teamarbeit beobachten lassen. Die Studie zeigt überraschende Unterschiede zwischen unterschiedlichen Formen der Teamorganisation. Agile Teams konnten im Homeoffice die Qualität der Teamzusammenarbeit und die Teamproduktivität leicht steigern. Befragte, die in traditionellen Teams arbeiteten, berichteten hingegen leicht negative Auswirkungen des Homeoffice während der Pandemie auf die Qualität der Teamarbeit und die Teamproduktivität.This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“
