Coding Rights – Joana Varon, Natasha Felizi, Tati Dias (Conception, Coordination) “Concepts like “Big Data,” “Smart Cities” and the “Internet of Things,” describe a belief that enormous data sets, analysed by computers with increased processing capacity and intelligent algorithms, would enable easier and more efficient results in sales, fight against Read more…
The Data Day posters show some of the things people agree to when they don’t read the terms and conditions and just click “I agree”. Very few people take the time to study the terms and conditions and just click away the annoying notices. The original “A Data-Day in London” Read more…
This is the website by the nonprofit organisation Center for Humane Technology. The website includes a variety of resources that can be used to educate about digital technologies and data, such as a film, a podcast, several toolkits and an online course. The website has individual sections for youth, parents Read more…
The Digital Defense Playbook is a resource designed to facilitate workshops about data and digital technologies with local communities. It was developed by the Our Data Bodies project and is split into different sections that cover a good range of data-related topics through group activities. There are over 80 pages Read more…
DataSkop (2022). Simulator “Plattformdynamiken”. The simulator “Plattformdynamiken” is an interactive online tool that aims to demonstrate to users how recommendation algorithms (or “recommender systems”) work. These are used to sort and recommend content on many online platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Spotify or sales portals. The simulator allows users to Read more…
3sat (2020): Google & Co.: Im Netz des Neokapitalismus – Teil 1, 19:33 Min. (verfügbar bis 07.09.2025) In the first part of this two-part video series on surveillance capitalism, Scobel describes how digitalization has changed capitalism and society. He explains the prehistory of surveillance capitalism and draws a bow from Read more…
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2018): fluter. Thema: Daten. Nr. 68. Magazin Issue on “Data” (in German) with various articles on data economy, data protection, social scoring, artifical intelligence, predictive policing and more. “Wenn es nichts kostet, bist du das Produkt. Diese Weisheit basiert auf der Erfahrung mit Konzernen wie Facebook Read more…
The classroom project “Digitization – Living in a Digital World” aims to raise students’ awareness of their data environments, data security and integrity, data mining, tracking and individual targeting, and to encourage them to engage with the topic of data capitalism and Big Data. Das Unterrichtsprojekt “Digitalisierung – Leben in Read more…
Andrews, David (2021): Big Data im Philosophie- und Ethikunterricht. Didaktische Überlegungen zur Digitalen Ethik. Diplomarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Magisters der Philosophie an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz. The thesis prepares the topic of Big Data as a subject of philosophy and ethics education didactically in three methodical steps Read more…
Helbing, Dirk (2017): Big Data-Forscher Dirk Helbing über den „perfekten Sturm“ der Digitalisierung. Markus Grill im Gespräch mit Dirk Helbing. Dirk Helbing calls for digital enlightenment to prevent the future vision of a society remotely controlled and fragmented by digital capitalism. Helbing calls for new digital infrastructures (open data, coordination, Read more…