#datafication — Public Fediverse posts

Entre l’IA de Google et le coaching humain de Whoop, le vrai enjeu n’est pas la santé, mais la privatisation de nos données vitales dans un vide réglementaire. 📉🏥

#Biopolitique #Hyperconnexion #NotAddiction #QuantifiedSelf #Datafication #SantéConnectée

📎 https://blogs.mediapart.fr/romain-leclaire/blog/090526/votre-corps-leur-algorithme

Entre l’IA de Google et le coaching humain de Whoop, le vrai enjeu n’est pas la santé, mais la privatisation de nos données vitales dans un vide réglementaire. 📉🏥

#Biopolitique #Hyperconnexion #NotAddiction #QuantifiedSelf #Datafication #SantéConnectée

📎 https://blogs.mediapart.fr/romain-leclaire/blog/090526/votre-corps-leur-algorithme

The day starts with #frustration! I'm using the Norwegian Historical Population Register (https://histreg.no/index.php/home) to get IDs for the Norwegian Emigrants who left for North America in the middle of the 19th century. But alas! I cannot verify any so far…
Name variations, spelling errors, lack of sources, and the (low) social status of emigrants make this difficult.
#Datafication #History #LetterCultures

The day starts with #frustration! I'm using the Norwegian Historical Population Register (https://histreg.no/index.php/home) to get IDs for the Norwegian Emigrants who left for North America in the middle of the 19th century. But alas! I cannot verify any so far…
Name variations, spelling errors, lack of sources, and the (low) social status of emigrants make this difficult.
#Datafication #History #LetterCultures

RE: https://sciences.social/@zemki/116080670158597467

I’m glad this great article is part of our special issue on #datafication alongside with fantastic contributions on critical data studies, network sampling and sustainable data practices: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1

RE: https://sciences.social/@zemki/116080670158597467

I’m glad this great article is part of our special issue on #datafication alongside with fantastic contributions on critical data studies, network sampling and sustainable data practices: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1

Wen das nicht aufschreckt, dem kann nicht mehr geholfen werden.

“Wissenschaft als datafizierter Raum”

von Renke Siems @RenkeSiems

https://www.melusinapress.lu/read/1981-5838-wadr/section/ad2cc559-1a30-4f43-972b-0957993a6528

#datafication #academicchatter #surveillance #überwachung

Wen das nicht aufschreckt, dem kann nicht mehr geholfen werden.

“Wissenschaft als datafizierter Raum”

von Renke Siems @RenkeSiems

https://www.melusinapress.lu/read/1981-5838-wadr/section/ad2cc559-1a30-4f43-972b-0957993a6528

#datafication #academicchatter #surveillance #überwachung

I want to recommend reading this paper on “Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest”.

#edtech #datafication #privacybydesign
#platformisation #mediaeducation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14749041251332664

I want to recommend reading this paper on “Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest”.

#edtech #datafication #privacybydesign
#platformisation #mediaeducation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14749041251332664

@JensB tausend Dank für die #Datafication und Aufnahme ins #Wikiversum bei #Wikidata 💕

"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

#LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #CriticalDataStudies #STS #AI #Datafication #Capitalism #Coloniality #DependencyTheory

"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

#LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #CriticalDataStudies #STS #AI #Datafication #Capitalism #Coloniality #DependencyTheory

CDT & Coworker.org’s recent report dives into how workers engage with #workplace #datafication when given the chance to learn and deliberate about its impacts. What do they think about surveillance & data collection at work? Find out: https://cdt.org/insights/what-do-workers-want-a-cdt-coworker-deliberative-poll-on-workplace-surveillance-and-datafication/

CDT & Coworker.org’s recent report dives into how workers engage with #workplace #datafication when given the chance to learn and deliberate about its impacts. What do they think about surveillance & data collection at work? Find out: https://cdt.org/insights/what-do-workers-want-a-cdt-coworker-deliberative-poll-on-workplace-surveillance-and-datafication/

NEW REPORT: CDT & Coworker.org explore how workers engage with #workplace #datafication when given the chance to learn & deliberate. We examine their policy preferences, how discussion shapes their views, & whether knowledge boosts advocacy for their rights. https://cdt.org/insights/what-do-workers-want-a-cdt-coworker-deliberative-poll-on-workplace-surveillance-and-datafication/

NEW REPORT: CDT & Coworker.org explore how workers engage with #workplace #datafication when given the chance to learn & deliberate. We examine their policy preferences, how discussion shapes their views, & whether knowledge boosts advocacy for their rights. https://cdt.org/insights/what-do-workers-want-a-cdt-coworker-deliberative-poll-on-workplace-surveillance-and-datafication/

Fresh back from our great retreat with the @zemki Lab #Mediatization and #Datafication - 2 days of intense discussion, great ideas and lots of fun. Thanks for that!

#AI for #SocialInnovation:
Beyond #Algorithms & #Datafication

@UIK #SummerSchool explored #AI’s role in ethical innovation/societal impact.

📺#Keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jGw3xRQsPI&t=2435s

📄#Publication #OpenAccess (5200<):
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

#DigitalRights #DigitalInclusion #TBC

#AI for #SocialInnovation:
Beyond #Algorithms & #Datafication

@UIK #SummerSchool explored #AI’s role in ethical innovation/societal impact.

📺#Keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jGw3xRQsPI&t=2435s

📄#Publication #OpenAccess (5200<):
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

#DigitalRights #DigitalInclusion #TBC

#Datafication often feels abstract until real-world examples, #Tajueco #Spain highlight its complexities

🔍A #GoogleMaps image revealed a #crime scene—showing how #aggregateddata shapes context

🤖With #AI, similar surprises are inevitable

#Surveillance #Gore #Suspenseful #Thriller #RealWorld #Policing https://diariovasco.com/sociedad/foto-google-maps-crimen-tajueco-soria-20241218100301-nt.html

#Datafication often feels abstract until real-world examples, #Tajueco #Spain highlight its complexities

🔍A #GoogleMaps image revealed a #crime scene—showing how #aggregateddata shapes context

🤖With #AI, similar surprises are inevitable

#Surveillance #Gore #Suspenseful #Thriller #RealWorld #Policing https://diariovasco.com/sociedad/foto-google-maps-crimen-tajueco-soria-20241218100301-nt.html

Escucho en #Euskadi/#España sobre las bondades del #SuperComputing #QuantumComputing en relación a los 'problemas sociales' q la #AI puede 'solucionar'

y me pregunto donde hemos dejado la #datafication...

#TheHammerOfAI #AI4SI #Solutionism

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

Escucho en #Euskadi/#España sobre las bondades del #SuperComputing #QuantumComputing en relación a los 'problemas sociales' q la #AI puede 'solucionar'

y me pregunto donde hemos dejado la #datafication...

#TheHammerOfAI #AI4SI #Solutionism

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

A reminder: today at 15:00 MET I will give a talk on #datafication, #automation and communicative #AI, discussing the need to broaden #mediatization research (at the online symposium "Living and Research in Times of Deep Mediatisation"). #ComAI

For more information see: https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/talk-by-andreas-hepp-at-the-online-colloquium-living-and-research-in-times-of-deep-mediatization/

#Privacy #Datafication #Surveillance: "I have to confess something: I find privacy boring. When I first received Pressly’s book, I groaned. Within the first few pages, I realized my mistake. The highest compliment I can pay “The Right to Oblivion” is that it rescues privacy from the lawyers. Pressly’s version of privacy has a moral content, not just a legal one. And this gives it relevance to a broader set of intellectual and political pursuits.

There is a wealth of scholarship on surveillance. Simone Browne has described its racial and racist dimensions, and Karen Levy and others have examined how digital monitoring can discipline and disempower workers. But privacy is rarely the central preoccupation in this work; other concerns, such as justice and equality, figure more prominently. With Pressly, however, privacy is defined in such a way as to seem vital to such critiques. Lawyers like to make privacy about process. Pressly makes it about power.

If that were everything the book did, it would be enough. But “The Right to Oblivion” is actually much stranger than my summary thus far suggests. The reason that Pressly feels so strongly about imposing limits on datafication is not only because of the many ways that data can be used to damage us. It is also because, in his view, we lose something precious when we become information, regardless of how it is used. In the very moment when data are made, Pressly believes, a line is crossed. “Oblivion” is his word for what lies on the other side."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-is-privacy-for

🔨The Hammer of #AI: The belief that AI alone can solve every societal issue risks overshadowing the essential process of #datafication. Let's shift focus to how data is created and governed, ensuring a more comprehensive understanding of our digital futures #TechFutures #AI4SI

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638#metrics

📢New #Publication OUT!

#ArtificialIntelligence for #SocialInnovation:
Beyond the Noise of #Algorithms & #Datafication

https://mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

Stemming from #AI4SI
@UIK
Intern #SummerSchool #DataCooperatives #ActionResearch #Web3 #GlobalSouth #PoliticalEconomy #DigitalJustice

📢New #Publication OUT!

#ArtificialIntelligence for #SocialInnovation:
Beyond the Noise of #Algorithms & #Datafication

https://mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/19/8638

Stemming from #AI4SI
@UIK
Intern #SummerSchool #DataCooperatives #ActionResearch #Web3 #GlobalSouth #PoliticalEconomy #DigitalJustice

Check out this RMeS course for #researchmaster & PhD students: “Platformisation: Transforming key economic sectors and spheres of life”, with several of my @utrechtuniversity colleagues teaching in it.

Start: 14 November 2024

https://www.rmes.nl/rmes-rma-course-platformisation-transforming-key-economic-sectors-and-spheres-of-life-2/

#platforms #Platformization #datafication

Here's a gentle reminder for all you web archivists, media historians, data-savvy artists, and STSy friends of technology: Our call for contributions to next year's THE DATAFIED WEB at Siegen University is open until October 15. Be in touch!

We are looking forward to your entries on Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/RESAW2025.

#resaw25 #c2dh #mediaofcoop #web #history #datafication #digitalhistory

Open access book on #education & #datafication

Critical Datafication Literacy. A Framework and Practical Approaches

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/d7/02/a9/oa9783839473788grkwLFhNpxcon.pdf

Our Research Unit "Communicative AI", funded by the @dfg_public and the @fwf, in which we investigate the transformation of social communication with generative AI, is now on Mastodon: @comai If you are interested in our research, please follow. @communicationscholars, @sociology, #ComAI, #AI, #generativeAI, #mediatization, #pioneercommunities, #automation, #communication, #journalism, #datascience, #datafication, #datafiedsociety

Just out! New paper on #EdTech with Janja Komljenovic & Sam Sellars: "Turning universities into data-driven organisations: seven dimensions of change"

#datafication #HigherEducation #data #assetization #universities

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-024-01277-z

#USA #Canada #Housing #Datafication: "In much of Canada and the United States, the housing market has become what philosopher Debra Satz refers to as a noxious market. A market is noxious when it is morally concerning or harmful due to the types of goods or services being traded, the conditions under which trade takes place, or the consequences of such trade. In the case of housing, the noxiousness of the market is symptomatic of increased inequality in the power dynamic between tenants and landlords, difficult access to homeownership for first-buyers, high levels of homelessness, and lack of supply. In attempts to address the problems surrounding the housing market, local and national governments have proposed numerous policy solutions. However, there has been minimal attention paid to a socio-technical development that has created many of the conditions that have exacerbated the negative effects of the housing markets: datafication.

Datafication occurs when a subject is surveilled and recorded. The perceived fact that is recorded is what is referred to as data—an abstraction of the material world. Housing data is recorded information produced from the surveillance of the housing ecosystem. It is not inherently bad, as this data can be leveraged for numerous positive purposes, such as better distribution of community resources. However, in recent years, due to a general trend of increased datafication due to the internet revolution, housing data has been leveraged not to build stronger communities, but to produce economic profit. Thus, the increase in housing data has created a bifurcation of the housing market. Traditionally, from a buyer's perspective, the housing market is mainly a means to acquire shelter. We propose that increased datafication creates—and is enforcing—a shift in the market where housing is becoming increasingly noxious for those seeking lodging..."

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-noxious-datafication-of-the-housing-market/

I'm happy to announce the publication of the collection

From Centre to Periphery and Beyond

that resulted from the 24th Workshop on NS camps and killing sites.

https://metropol-verlag.de/produkt/from-centre-to-periphery-and-beyond-the-history-and-memory-of-national-socialist-camps-and-killing-sites/

#history #german #ns #nationalsocialism #antisemitsm #datafication

"Explainer: Challenging Worker Datafication"
By Alexandra Mateescu @alexandraclaudia @datasociety: https://datasociety.net/library/challenging-worker-datafication/ @ethics

#work #workPlace #Datafication #management #microManagement #safety #workCulture #platforming #workQuality #mentalHealth