Dewes, Andreas (2016): Plenty to Hide: The toxicity of personal information in the “Big Data” age. Vortrag, gehalten auf der re:publica 2016 am 3. Mai . When asked about their online privacy, most people think they got nothing to hide. In his talk, Andreas Dewes want to show that this Read more
NDR (2021): China: Überwachungsstaat oder Zukunftslabor? Sendung vom 31. Mai (44:05 Min., verfügbar bis 31.5.2022). The report by Tamara Anthony, Mathias Bölinger, Svea Eckert and Daniel Satra describes the practice of data collection in China and shows how citizens’ behavior is monitored by control centers (“brains”) in all city districts Read more
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