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Digidem Digest - Issue 44 (January 2022)
No full textThe Digidem Digest literature radar was a monthly curated overview of the latest publications with relevance to the research group "Democracy and Digitalization" at the Weizenbaum Institute. Their research focused around the interrelation of digitalization and democratic self-determination, asking how liberal-democratic societies appropriate digital technologies and how democracy is changing within the digital configuration. The present articles and publications were chosen by observation of leading journals within the field - a list can be found at the end of each newsletter
Regulierungsbeziehungen und Entscheidungsmacht privater Zahlungsintermediäre
Get PDFIm Fokus aktueller Debatten über die infrastrukturelle Macht von Internet-Intermediären stehen klassischerweise Social-Media-, Handels- und Betriebsplattformen von großen Internetkonzernen wie Facebook, Amazon, Apple oder Google. Demgegenüber werden sowohl in der soziologischen als auch der rechtswissenschaftlichen Literatur private Bezahlunternehmen wie Banken, Kreditkarten-Unternehmen und digitale Zahlungsdienstleister nur selten berücksichtigt, obwohl jene Infrastrukturen bereitstellen und kontrollieren, die für sämtliche Finanztransaktionen – nicht nur, aber auch – im Internet benötigt und genutzt werden
How to capture the relations and dynamics within the networked public sphere? Modes of interaction as a new concept
Get PDFThe aim of this chapter is to suggest ways to better capture the diversity of constellations and the dynamics of interactions in the public sphere, triggered by the digital transformation. The starting point is the question of why relations and dynamics should be considered more in communica tion studies and how they have been researched so far. In this respect, the limits of public sphere theory and social network analysis (SNA) are discussed. To overcome these limits, I propose a theoretical framework that combines public sphere theory and SNA with – as a third and new concept – modes of interaction. Such modes of interaction are ideal-typical patterns of interaction between actors in different constellations – namely, diffusion, mobilization, conflict, cooperation, competition, and scandal. Afterwards, I discuss these modes of interaction in the context of different societal subsystems and phases of media change in order to demonstrate their heuristic value. Traditional mass media foster the universalization of competition in several dimensions because competition requires only one- way relations of observation and influence. The Internet supports the interactive, multi-stage, and sequential communication that is characteristic of conflict and cooperation
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies
Get PDFDigital platforms and media are fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and conspirational views. They provide a variety of communication venues for a mixed set of actors and foster the diffusion of content between actor groups, across platforms and media, and across languages and geographical spaces. Understanding those diffusion processes requires approaches to measure the prevalence and spread of communicative acts within and across digital platforms. Given the increasing access to digital data, computational methods provide new possibilities to capture this spread and do justice to the interrelated nature and hybridity of online communication. Against this background, the paper focuses on the spread of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies. It provides a review of recent methodological approaches to measuring conspiracy-related content online regarding the (a) prevalence and (b) diffusion of conspiracy theories. To that end, the paper differentiates between social network analysis approaches and computational techniques of automated text classification. It further discusses how far these and related computational approaches could facilitate studying the diffusion of conspiracy theories across different actor types, languages, topics and platforms. In doing so, it takes the specific nature of online communication and challenges in the field of conspiracy-related content into account
Interviews zu Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen und digitalen Praktiken offener Wissenschaft am Weizenbaum-Institut
No full textDie Forschungsgruppe „Digitalisierung der Wissenschaft“ begleitet am Weizenbaum-Institut den Aufbau eines Repositoriums für Publikationen und Forschungsdaten. Als Teil der Anforderungsanalyse wurden leitfadengestützte Interviews mit wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter*innen des Weizenbaum-Instituts durchgeführt. Ziel dieser war es, deren Erfahrung mit und Anforderungen an Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen zu identifizieren.
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When Ethics demands the already Present - How Ethics undermines effective data protection in the case of the Corona-Warn-App in Germany
Get PDFDigital data donations. A quest for best practices
Get PDFThis preview article discusses PORT—a data donation software newly developed by Boeschoten et al.—toward the background of three core data donation principles: privacy protection, meaningful data extraction, and securing user agency
OSD2F: An Open-Source Data Donation Framework
Get PDFThe digital traces that people leave through their use of various online platforms provide tremendous opportunities for studying human behavior. However, the collection of these data is hampered by legal, ethical, and technical challenges. We present a framework and tool for collecting these data through a data donation platform where consenting participants can securely submit their digital traces. This approach leverages recent developments in data rights that have given people more control over their own data, such as legislation that now mandates companies to make digital trace data available on request in a machine-readable format. By transparently requesting access to specific parts of this data for clearly communicated academic purposes, the data ownership and privacy of participants is respected, and researchers are less dependent on commercial organizations that store this data in proprietary archives. In this paper we outline the general design principles, the current state of the tool, and future development goals
Appendix to “Your social ties, your personal public sphere, your responsibility”
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