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Supplementary Material for “Design thinking capabilities in the digital world: A bibliometric analysis of emerging trends”
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Purple Code – With Eliana Quiroz
No full textThis conversation with Eliana Quiroz, digital rights activist and author from Bolivia and temporary fellow at the Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg, delves into the many implications of digital media for women. Eliana has co-founded the Bolivian digital rights collective https://internetbolivia.org/ and has fought for decades to improve digital rights in Bolivia. As she explains, this entails to maneuver a highly polarized political context, and to maintain a stubborn persistency. She has engaged in fostering free software, in drafting and lobbying a data protection bill, and to support self-defense strategies against online violence directed towards women and indigenous communities. She furthermore elaborates on how being a woman in male dominated tech and political communities affects her work – a situation to which Sana, Bianca, and Lena can relate very well, as becomes clear in the conversation
Combining Experiential Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence. The Digital Transformation of a Traditional Machine-Building Company
Get PDFThe development of Industry 4.0 technologies creates leeway for the digital transformation of manufacturing companies, whose business models increasingly rely on software and data-based services. While several studies emphasise that manufacturing has no choice but to follow this transformation, there is little knowledge about how companies are actually managing it. This article uses the case study of a leading mechanical engineering company to analyse how the company organised the development of new digital technologies and how it changed its organisational structures and practices. It is based on 22 interviews and an analysis of company documents. The analysis draws on ambidexterity theory, which is extended toward a dynamic process analysis. It shows that digital transformation presupposes the development of structures and practices supporting cross-functional cooperation and the creation of new skill formation approaches. It develops a model of organisational change related to the digital transformation of manufacturing companies which includes the proof-of-concept phase, the partial exploitation phase, and the organisational transformation phase
Using Metaphorical Design to Reveal New Perspectives in Systems Design – Insights From a Participatory Design Workshop for Research Data Platforms
Get PDFMetaphorical design is a Participatory Design technique suitable for problem setting and concept development. The technique can be particularly constructive when designing (computer) systems in an already digitalized environment. In such contexts, designers might be tempted to draw on readily available technical solutions, thus hampering the discovery of new perspectives. Our use case is the development of a research data platform that aims to provide innovative functionality, especially for assessing and exploring digital resources. We developed a participatory workshop format adapting metaphorical design that first creates a shared understanding of the context and then guides participants to generate metaphors using a projective technique. We show how we used these metaphors to understand the participants’ model of the research data platform, to identify possible domains of activities, and to stimulate new viewpoints on the research data platform and its functionality. With this paper, we provide an application example of the adapted metaphorical design process, propose a metaphor evaluation matrix, and discuss the findings
Data of the paper: Clickbait or conspiracy? How Twitter users address the epistemic uncertainty of a controversial preprint
No full textThis project contains sources related with the paper „Clickbait or conspiracy? How Twitter users address the epistemic uncertainty of a controversial preprint“:
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Scripts used to retrieve Tweets and to analyze/visualize them.
Quantitative Analysis: Data
+ tweets.json: All Tweets of the relevant users as nodes and their relationships (retweet, quote or reply) as edges.
+ users_clustered.json: Users as nodes and their follow-relationships as edges, clustered with the Leiden algorithm.
+ follower_network.json: JSON file corresponding to Figure 1.
+ interaction_network.json: JSON file corresponding to Figure 2
Qualitative Analysis: Data
Replies and quotes of the Tweets that are used in the qualitative analysis
Ein Dateninstitut für Deutschland. Stellungnahme des Weizenbaum-Instituts
Get PDFDas Weizenbaum-Institut nimmt Stellung zum geplanten Dateninstitut. Nach einer kurzen Einleitung werden Ziel und Aufgabe, Adressaten, Herausforderungen und konkrete Handlungsbereiche behandelt.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“
Das Ende des Politischen? Demokratische Politik und Künstliche Intelligenz
Get PDFIn jüngster Zeit findet innerhalb der politiktheoretischen Forschung eine vermehrte Auseinandersetzung mit algorithmenbasierten Systemen statt. Diese ist geprägt von der Behauptung einer neuen algorithmischen Regierungsweise, die aufgrund ihrer reduktionistisch-formalen Logik sowohl plurale Sinnzusammenhänge untergräbt als auch die individuelle Entfaltung reflexiver Urteilsbildung unterminiert. Entgegen dieser Annahmen argumentiert der vorliegende Beitrag, dass der Einsatz dieser digitalen Technologien im politischen Kontext nicht zwangsläufig in eine post-politische Verfasstheit von Gesellschaft münden muss. Algorithmische Systeme lassen sich als spezifische epistemische Verfahren verstehen, deren operativer Gebrauch symbolischer Inputs zwar einer schließenden, ontologisierenden Logik folgt und für sich genommen kontingenzreduzierende und latent anti-politische Wirkungen zeitigt. Demokratische Gesellschaften zeichnen sich aber hinsichtlich ihrer kontingenztheoretischen Verfahren gerade dadurch aus, dass ihre befragende Logik eine Inkorporation solcher Ontologisierungen ermöglicht. Es geht dann vielmehr darum, die Bedingungen ihrer Politisierung in den Blick zu nehmen.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL
Generational Gaps in Media Trust and its Antecedents in Europe
Get PDFWe test generational differences in media trust and its antecedents, including political trust, interest, and orientation, as well as perceptions of media inaccuracy and media bias. We rely on original survey data from ten European countries, collected in 2019. We find no differences in the levels of media trust between generations, but we find that key correlates of media trust relate differently to it in different generations. For example, political interest is more strongly correlated with media trust for Millennials than for other generations. Perceptions of bias and inaccuracy have a strong negative correlation with media trust overall, but it is stronger for older generations. These results suggest, that in the long term, societal developments, and in particular debates about media bias and misinformation may impact media trust of young generations differently as they grow older—however, our data give no indication of that creating generational gaps in media trust
From Research Evaluation to Research Analytics. The digitization of academic performance measurement
Get PDFOne could think that bibliometric measurement of academic performance has always been digital since the computer-assisted invention of the Science Citation Index. Yet, since the 2000s, the digitization of bibliometric infrastructure has accelerated at a rapid pace. Citation databases are indexing an increasing variety of publication types. Altmetric data aggregators are producing data on the reception of research outcomes. Machine-readable persistent identifiers are created to unambiguously identify researchers, research organizations, and research objects; and evaluative software tools and current research information systems are constantly enlarging their functionalities to make use of these data and extract meaning from them. In this article, we analyse how these developments in evaluative bibliometrics have contributed to an extension of indicator-based research evaluation towards data-driven research analytics. Drawing on empirical material from blogs and websites as well as from research and policy papers, we discuss how interoperability, scalability, and flexibility as material specificities of digital infrastructures generate new ways of data production and their assessment, which affect the possibilities of how academic performance can be understood and (e)valuated
Digidem Digest - Issue 48 (May 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