Tech and Politics
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Artificial intelligence and democracy: Equality, elections, and autocratic competition (once more)
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss three further areas where artificial intelligence begins to touch on democracy: equality, elections, and the systemic competition ...
Artificial intelligence and self-rule (once more)
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the individual level, AI impacts the conditions of democratic self-rule and people’s opportunities to exercise it.
Conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence (once more)
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The successful application of artificial intelligence depends on a set of preconditions.
Artificial intelligence and democracy (once more)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised awareness of the technology’s economic, social, and political cons...
Algorithms: Fears & What can we do to improve algorithms use in society?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we focus on remaining fears and challenges associated with algorithms: bubbles and loops, the alignment problem, and opaqueness. We c...
Algorithmic Action & Fairness
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we focus on algorithmic action and fairness.
Algorithmic Support
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms are also used to provide suggestions and advice.Iit is helpful to differentiate between algorithms providing advice and suggestions to expe...
Algorithms
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms are sets of steps by which to solve pre-defined tasks. Today the term appears predominantly in connection with computing. Algorithms allow ...
Privacy
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode sketches the tensions that arise from the drive to generate data-enabled insights and people's expectations and rights to privacy.
Observing and shaping the world with data
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data provide a reduced representation of the world and promise to uncover hidden patterns and connections between entities that remain invisible in th...
Measurement
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Quantification makes some things visible, while hiding others. To better understand this process, we have to examine how things become numbers, we hav...
Data
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Data are crucial for the discussion of politics and digital media. Understanding the core concepts and issues arising from the quantification of socia...
Digitaler Wandel im Kaleidoskop der Sozialwissenschaft
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote zur Gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik, dem Arbe...
The public arena examined
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at three studies illustrating how to approach different aspects of the contemporary public arena empirically.
Digital structures of the public arena
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Digital media have not only challenged the position of traditional structures of the public arena. Digital media have also led to the emergence of new...
News media as structures of the public arena
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on one of the most important structures hosting the public arena, the news media.
The public arena
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Democratic societies need spaces in which people and political elites become visible to each other, develop shared agendas, and settle on collectively...
Challenges reexamined
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will focus on how digitally enabled challenges fail and how to assess their legitimacy and impact on democracy.
Crisis, conflict, and the digital challenge to parties
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will focus on digitally enabled challenges to political parties.
How do digital media drive the challenge of institutions?
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will focus on the mechanisms through wich digital media allow challenges to social institutions.
Digital media and the challenge to institutions
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All over the world, we see people using digital media to question and challenge authorities, organizations, norms and behaviors they perceive as dysfu...
Data and algorithms in journalism
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change journalism.
Data and algorithms in political campaigning
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change political campaigning.
Algorithms in politics and society
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will talk about algorithms, what they are, how they work, and concerns they create once applied broadly and in scale across societ...
Data: Measurement, quantification, and control
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this and the following episodes, we will be talking about data and algorithms with a special focus on their uses in and effects on politics. In thi...
The impact of artificial intelligence on equality and the competition between autocracies and democracies
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our discussion about artificial intelligence and its impact on democracy. In this episode, we focus on AI's impact on equality and the com...
The impact of artificial intelligence on elections and people's informational autonomy
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this and the following episode, we will be talking about artificial intelligence and its impact on democracy. In this episode, we will start by dis...
Conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we will be talking about the conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence across different areas.
Artificial intelligence and democracy
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We encounter AIs daily, be it in the voice assistants in our homes and phones, through automation in our workplace, or as the drivers of policing or c...
Digital trace data: Typical approaches in computational social science 2
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In computational social science there are great hopes and enthusiasms connected with the availability of new data sources. In this episode, we will be...
Text analysis: Typical approaches in computational social science 1
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Text analysis is a prominently used approach from computational social science. In this episode, we examine three recent studies closely, that are usi...
The computational social science project pipeline
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our discussion of computational social science and its promises and challenges has remained rather abstract. It is time to turn to CSS as a practice. ...
What is Computational Social Science?
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Computational social science (CSS) is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies human behavior and social systems using computational methods...
Digital media in politics and society
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of this lecture series is to help you to make sense of digital media, the changes it brings, and the challenges it presents. In order to do s...
Trailer: Tech and Politics
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trailer for Tech & Politics, the podcast of the Chair for Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.