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Moderating the Regulators/Regulating the Moderators: NetzDG and online content moderation in Germany
Get PDFThis 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“
Weizenbaum Panel: Digital Citizenship – Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation in Deutschland 2021, WP3-21 [Fragebogendokumentation]
Get PDFDie hier zum Download bereitstehende Fragebogendokumentation enthält den Fragebogen, welcher in der dritten Befragungswelle im Erhebungszeitraum von Anfang Oktober bis Mitte Dezember 2021 verwendet wurde.
This questionnaire was used in the third survey wave from the beginning of October to mid-December 2021.
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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
- – Internetbezogene Bürgernormen und politische Partizipation
- – Wichtigstes politisches Thema und politische Orientierung
- – Politische Geschlechternormen und feministische Einstellungen
- – Reaktion auf Hasskommentare und Falschnachrichten im Internet (Online Civic Intervention)
- – Soziodemographi
Civic Hackathons und der Formwandel der Demokratie. Eine repräsentationstheoretische Analyse von #WirVsVirus
Get PDFThe article deals with the case of the civic hackathon #WirVsVirus, which was organised in reaction to the corona pandemic and officially endorsed by the federal government. It aims at discussing the normative implications of this technologically oriented political format. How are different social representation claims formulated and negotiated in and through civic hackathons? Our analysis shows that the hackathon constitutes a successful representative claim on behalf of civic tech initiatives vis-à-vis the administrative state. While this claim is primarily about establishing a new format for efficient and subsidiary problem solving in the wake of the crisis, the hackathon’s participatory promises are only partially fulfilled. The hackathon was rather open towards input from civil society and in this way attracted a great deal of public interest. Despite this fact, due to its technological-organizational structure and its competitive, solution-oriented procedure, decision-making power remains largely with the hackathon’s organizers
Public Opinion and its Influence on Cyber Crisis Decision-Making Processes
Get PDFThis 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“
Digital Activists: The networking society as a democratic reality
Get PDFThis 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“
Digidem Digest - Issue 41 (Oktober 2021)
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
Ronda. Real-Time Data Provision, Processing and Publication for Open Data
Get PDFThe provision and dissemination of Open Data is a flourishing concept, which is highly recognized and established in the government and public administrations domains. Typically, the actual data is served as static file downloads, such as CSV or PDF, and the established software solutions for Open Data are mostly designed to manage this kind of data. However, the rising popularity of the Internet of things and smart devices in the public and private domain leads to an increase of available real-time data, like public transportation schedules, weather forecasts, or power grid data. Such timely and extensive data cannot be used to its full potential when published in a static, file-based fashion. Therefore, we designed and developed Ronda - an open source platform for gathering, processing and publishing real-time Open Data based on industry-proven and established big data and data processing tools. Our solution easily enables Open Data publishers to provide real-time interfaces for heterogeneous data sources, fostering more sophisticated and advanced Open Data use cases. We have evaluated our work through a practical application in a production environment
Digital Practices: Whose voices are we hearing?
Get PDFThis 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“
A Pandemic of Prediction. On the Circulation of Contagion Models between Public Health and Public Safety
Get PDFDigital prediction tools increasingly complement or replace other practices of coping with an uncertain future. The current COVID-19 pandemic, it seems, is further accelerating the spread of prediction. The prediction of the pandemic yields a pandemic of prediction. In this paper, we explore this dynamic, focusing on contagion models and their transmission back and forth between two domains of society: public health and public safety. We connect this movement with a fundamental duality in the prevention of contagion risk concerning the two sides of being-at-risk and being-a-risk. Both in the spread of a disease and in the spread of criminal behavior, a person at risk can be a risk to others and vice versa. Based on key examples, from this perspective we observe and interpret a circular movement in three phases. In the past, contagion models have moved from public health to public safety, as in the case of the Strategic Subject List used in the policing activity of the Chicago Police Department. In the present COVID-19 pandemic, the analytic tools of policing wander to the domain of public health – exemplary of this movement is the cooperation between the data infrastructure firm Palantir and the UK government’s public health system NHS. The expectation that in the future the predictive capacities of digital contact tracing apps might spill over from public health to policing is currently shaping the development and use of tools such as the Corona-Warn-App in Germany. In all these cases, the challenge of pandemic governance lies in managing the connections and the exchanges between the two areas of public health and public safety while at the same time keeping the autonomy of each