Heise, Nele (2021): So fremd und doch so nah. Big Data und Künstliche Intelligenz in unserem Alltag. Vortrag, gehalten am 4. Februar in der Evangelischen Akademie im Rheinland. In her talk, Nele Heise introduces the basics of Artificial Intelligence, explains how it works, what it is already being used for, Read more…
Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband (2021): Habe ich Follower, von denen ich nichts weiß? Der Einfluss von Big Data auf unseren Alltag (“Stadt | Land | DatenFluss”), Bonn. As part of the event series “Stadt | Land | DatenFluss” of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband, experts discussed both the dangers and the opportunities that lie Read more…
Kaltheuner, Frederike (2016): Understanding predictive privacy harms. Talk at the 10 th edition of the International Journalism Festival, 06-10 April, Perugia (09 April, Hotel Brufani – Sala Perugino) In this talk, Frederike Kaltheuner (University of Amsterdam) provides an example of the concept of predictive privacy harms. What does it actually Read more…
Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2018): Podcasts zu Digitalisierung und Privatheit, Berlin. The podcast series “Digitization and Privacy” contains short statements by scientists on the new technologies of data collection and processing and asks from different perspectives what the extensive data processing is used for, for example for forecasts Read more…
Watch Your Web (2015): Big Data. Das große Datensammeln, Bonn: IJAB – Fachstelle für Internationale Jugendarbeitder Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V. (Das Projekt Watch Your Web wurde Ende 2015 eingestellt). The website classifies the terms “big data” and “data mining”, explains in the form of infographics who collects data and for which Read more…
Museum für Kommunikation (2020): Big Data. Lehrmittel für die Sekundarstufen. (Autorinnen: Carmen Siegenthaler und Anja Voge), hrsg. vom Schweizerischer Nationalfonds – Zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Nationales Forschungsprogramm NFP 75 «Big Data» (www.nfp75.ch) und bigdata-dialog.ch in Kooperation mit dem Museum für Kommunikation, Bern. The teaching material is aimed at students Read more…
Keller, Michael; Neufeld, Josh (2014): Terms of Service. Understanding our role in the world of Big Data, hrsg. von Rhyne Piggott und Lam Thuy Vo, This critical big data literacy tool provides a very interesting and low – threshold approach to teaching about big data: through a graphic novel. The Read more…
Greenwald, Glen (2014): “Why Privacy matters”, Ted Talk vom 10. Oktober. Talk by journalist Glenn Greenwald, presented at a TED conference in 2014. This critical big data literacy tool emphasises the importance of privacy in an appealing manner for an audience without any previous knowledge. It uses various real-life examples Read more…
Privacy International is “fighting for the right to privacy across the globe since 1990”. Despite this focus on privacy, the website provides information on various aspects around online privacy and big data, such as tracking, targeted advertising, data exploitation, disinformation and internet regulation. Not only is Privacy International’s research, advocacy Read more…
Silent Circle (2015): #PrivacyProject. This video, which was produced by Silent Circle, a company that offers secure technologies, presents a street experiment that aims to promote a critical reflection of data collection through a better understanding of online services’ terms and conditions. While this presents a great entrance in the Read more…