Check out the #ZeMKI #Datafication and#Mediatiziation Lab @unibremen at its summer/fall retreat at Pfarrhof #Bergkirchen !

Among others with @Andreas_Hepp @Leifkramp @JulieLuepkes .

#Mediastudies #DigitalMedia #communication

The fabulous @zemki #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @unibremen at its summer/fall retreat at Pfarrhof #Bergkirchen (#RehburgerBerge, #SteinhuderMeer)

In social science research, there has been a lengthy discussion about how material aspects of #media, #data and #infrastructure can be adequately theorised and whether "constructivist" or "realist" approaches are more appropriate. In our paper, @couldrynick and I try to show that simple dichotomies don't help and why a "materialist phenomenology", on the other hand, is more useful. #constructivism #realism #materiality #figuration #mediatization #datafication #AI https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/15793

#Datafication #Journalism #Media #News #Algorithms #Automation #DigitalJournalism: "Data permeates nearly all spheres of society, and journalism is no exception to this since data has become a cornerstone of reality construction and perception. This contribution sets out to historicize the datafication processes in digital journalism and the way in which European institutions of media (self-)regulation have dealt with ethical issues regarding the use of data in algorithmic journalism in three areas: accountability, transparency, and privacy. The article shows that the process of datafication in journalism cannot be observed and analyzed in isolation, given that there is a double reflexivity between data-driven societal transformation processes and what happens in journalism. However, almost all press councils in Europe have so far ignored data-driven phenomena like algorithms or news automation. As a consequence, if self-regulators do not regulate, other institutions will, with the risk of news organizations being forced to make decisions on the grounds of regulatory frameworks that are not primarily intended for journalism."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14648849231190232

#Digitization #Datafication #Individual: "A combination of political, sociocultural, and technological shifts suggests a change in the way we understand human rights. Undercurrents fueling this process are digitization and datafication. Through this process of change, categories that might have been cornerstones of our past and present might very well become outdated. A key category that is under pressure is that of the individual. Since datafication is typically accompanied by technologies and processes aimed at segmenting and grouping, such groupings become increasingly relevant at the expense of the notion of the individual. This concept might become but another collection of varied characteristics, a unit of analysis that is considered at times too broad—and at other times too narrow—to be considered relevant or useful by the systems driving our key economic, social, and political processes.

This Essay provides a literature review and a set of key definitions linking the processes of digitization, datafication, and the concept of the individual to existing conceptions of individual rights. It then presents a framework to dissect and showcase the ways in which current technological developments are putting pressure on our existing conceptions of the individual and individual rights."

https://www.templelawreview.org/essay/datafication-identity-and-the-reorganization-of-the-category-individual/

🗣 „You Are Your History“ : The Datafication of Genealogical Research

ZeMKI-Mitglied Dr. Rieke Böhling hält einen Vortrag am 28. Juni bei dem Online-Event „The Datafied Family“. Das Event ist ein ein eintägiger, internationaler, virtueller Workshop. Die Registrierung ist bis zum 25.06. möglich.

Weitere Infos finden Sie hier: https://www.uni-bremen.de/zemki/detailansicht/vortrag-von-zemki-mitglied-dr-rieke-boehling


#Mediastudies #University #DigitalMedia #datafication #datafiedfamily

Situating data relations in the datafied home: @gaia_amadori @twitter.com & @giovannamas presenting their methodological and theoretical approach of investigating mediatized family figurations - done with MeTag, by @mesoftware_org @twitter.com #ICA23 #datafication #mediatization @commfigurations @twitter.com

Now that we've had some time to get to know the Mastodon world, it's time for a proper #introduction !

We are the "Critical Big Data and Algorithmic Literacy Network" - an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers & practitioners who are interested in critical #education about #data & #datafication.

Our projects include:
- a database for online educational resources about data
- a (German) glossary on terms related to digital sovereignty
- a debate series on #criticaldataliteracy

You can find the database, glossary & more information on our network on our website: bigdataliteracy.net

Our next project is a online event series on the practice-side of critical data literacy: different educators and creators of online resources will present & discuss their best practice insights on how to implement critical data literacy.

We look forward to connecting with other scholars & practitioners on here! If you're interested in #criticaldataliteracy , feel free to reach out!

Children's #privacy in the home or the #datafication of childhood
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-australian-cites-datafication-childhood.html
#Surveillance #gadgets #data violations #commercialisation internet of things #IoT #household

Referenced link: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-australian-cites-datafication-childhood.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-australian-cites-datafication-childhood.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/TechXplore_com/status/1638248631097520137#m

RT by @physorg_com: Australian report cites '#datafication' of childhood https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X231162386 https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-australian-cites-datafication-childhood.html

Great news! The Chinese translation of "The mediated construction of reality" by @couldrynick and me is out (original at @politybooks@twitter.com). A big thanks to Yangyu Liu for the engagement and the great translation! #mediatization #datafication #media #data #infrastructure @communicationscholars @sociology

Interested in how (digital) platforms shape education professions?

Then read this issue of Tertium Comparationis: https://waxmann.com/ausgabeAUG100455
#OpenAccess

My article looks at the German school supervision (#Schulaufsicht).

All thanks to Sigrid Hartong and Mathias Decuypere who brought together researchers like Steven Lewis, @DrJLClutterbuck, @carloper, Jamie Manolev and myself.

#CriticalDataStudies #datafication

"Once upon a time, you could just go to Disneyland.
Then Walt Disney Studios turned itself into a data company."

https://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/

#parenting #datafication #privacy

Leo Baeck Year Book 2022 is out in print. With a humble contribution of yours truly.

#germanjewishstudies #antisemitism #datafication of #race #holocauststudies

Thrilled to see this handbook finally out 🤩
My humble contribution 'Internet of Things and New Frontiers of Datafication’ is chapter 18 of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. DM me if you want a copy! https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-digital-society/book269045#description #digitalsociety #internetofthings #datafication

This amazing handbook finally out 🤩
My humble contribution 'Internet of Things and New Frontiers of Datafication’ is chapter 18 of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. DM me if you want a copy! https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-digital-society/book269045#description #digitalsociety #internetofthings #datafication

The double-edged power of card-file systems:

Learn about a revolution in information technology in the 1920s, which may seem old and dusty to us at first, but really isn't. It's about data flows, information management, and data-driven decision making – in a country that devolved into a dictatorship and didn't use these tools for any good.

https://nghm.hypotheses.org/8416

#englishfridays #hypolingual #DigitalHumanities #DataScience #datafication #WeimarerRepublik #NaziGermany

Editorial:
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?

Felicitas Macgilchrist, John Potter & Ben Williamson

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2022.2140673

#Platformisation, #datafication, #surveillance

The call for our @zemki Fellowships is out: Whoever is doing research on#ComAI, #datafication, deep #mediatization and other phenomena of media-related transformation and would like to spend some time working with us: Please apply! The fellowships are paid: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/research/zemki-visiting-research-fellowship

A beautiful, but scary (because so plausible), short story by Fred Motson in PDSE: "Access to Justice".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-022-00375-4

#openaccess #fedistory #datafication #law #academia