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One of the most important challenges societies face today is how to make sense of digital media. We are deeply uncertain about their impact: mechanisms, conditions, and opportunities of and for their uses remain unclear. The goal the podcast is to help you to make sense of digital media, the changes it brings, and the challenges it presents. This podcast accompanies the lecture series Digital Media in Politics & Society of the Chair for the Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.

Andreas Jungherr


    • Jan 23, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 35 EPISODES
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    Artificial intelligence and democracy: Equality, elections, and autocratic competition (once more)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2024 32:57


    In which we discuss three further areas where artificial intelligence begins to touch on democracy: equality, elections, and the systemic competition between democracy and autocracy.

    Artificial intelligence and self-rule (once more)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 25:28


    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)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2024 23:07


    The successful application of artificial intelligence depends on a set of preconditions.

    Artificial intelligence and democracy (once more)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2024 20:20


    The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised awareness of the technology's economic, social, and political consequences. The most recent step in AI development -- the application of large language models (LLMs) and other transformer models to the generation of text, image, video, or audio content -- has come to dominate the public imaginary of AI and has accelerated this discussion. But to assess AI's societal impact meaningfully, we need to look closely at the workings of the underlying technology and identify the areas of contact within democracy.

    Algorithms: Fears & What can we do to improve algorithms use in society?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 33:35


    In this episode, we focus on remaining fears and challenges associated with algorithms: bubbles and loops, the alignment problem, and opaqueness. We close the discussion of algorithms by an account what can be done to improve their uses in society.

    Algorithmic Action & Fairness

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 21:05


    In this episode, we focus on algorithmic action and fairness.

    Algorithmic Support

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 18:36


    Algorithms are also used to provide suggestions and advice.Iit is helpful to differentiate between algorithms providing advice and suggestions to experts and those providing advice and suggestions for lay people and users of digital communication environments and services.

    Algorithms

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 22:58


    Algorithms are sets of steps by which to solve pre-defined tasks. Today the term appears predominantly in connection with computing. Algorithms allow computers to perform tasks. They are crucial in the advances of computer-enabled analysis and automation.

    Privacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 22:15


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2023 23:18


    Data provide a reduced representation of the world and promise to uncover hidden patterns and connections between entities that remain invisible in their full, unreduced manifestation in the world. This allows people and organizations to make sense of the world, and increase their level of control.

    Measurement

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2023 18:21


    Quantification makes some things visible, while hiding others. To better understand this process, we have to examine how things become numbers, we have to examine measurement.

    Data

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2023 23:27


    Data are crucial for the discussion of politics and digital media. Understanding the core concepts and issues arising from the quantification of social and political life and the resulting data is important for engaging in many of the subsequent controversies of the uses of digital media in politics.

    Digitaler Wandel im Kaleidoskop der Sozialwissenschaft

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2022 32:34


    Keynote zur Gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung, der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Politik, dem Arbeitskreis Politik und Kommunikation (DVPW) und der Fachgruppe Politische Kommunikation (SGKM) an der Universität Trier vom 29. September 2022.

    The public arena examined

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2022 24:55


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2022 25:16


    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 structures hosting the contemporary public arena in digital communication environments. In this episode, we discuss some of the most pressing challenges raised by the digital extension of the public arena.

    News media as structures of the public arena

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2022 24:08


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 22:40


    Democratic societies need spaces in which people and political elites become visible to each other, develop shared agendas, and settle on collectively binding decisions. These spaces are the public arena.

    Challenges reexamined

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 18:06


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 20:26


    In this episode, we will focus on digitally enabled challenges to political parties.

    How do digital media drive the challenge of institutions?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 21:36


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2022 22:09


    All over the world, we see people using digital media to question and challenge authorities, organizations, norms and behaviors they perceive as dysfunctional or unjust. Digital media are therefore an important element in the challenge of established social institutions, sometimes even enabling these challenges in the first place.

    Data and algorithms in journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2022 26:35


    In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change journalism.

    Data and algorithms in political campaigning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2022 21:17


    In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change political campaigning.

    Algorithms in politics and society

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 25:00


    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 society.

    Data: Measurement, quantification, and control

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 25:29


    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 this episode, we start with data.

    The impact of artificial intelligence on equality and the competition between autocracies and democracies

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2022 24:24


    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 competition between societies, some democratic, some not.

    The impact of artificial intelligence on elections and people's informational autonomy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 27:42


    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 discussing AI's role in elections and its impact on people's informational autonomy.

    Conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2022 24:34


    In this episode, we will be talking about the conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence across different areas.

    Artificial intelligence and democracy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2022 25:32


    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 credit decisions. In this and the following episodes, we focus on the impact of AI on democracy.

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    Digital trace data: Typical approaches in computational social science 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022 34:35


    In computational social science there are great hopes and enthusiasms connected with the availability of new data sources. In this episode, we will be talking about working with one of these new data sources: digital trace data.

    Text analysis: Typical approaches in computational social science 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 22:50


    Text analysis is a prominently used approach from computational social science. In this episode, we examine three recent studies closely, that are using text analysis in interesting and constructive ways.

    The computational social science project pipeline

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 22:22


    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. For this, let's have a look at the typical CSS project pipeline.

    What is Computational Social Science?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2022 22:01


    Computational social science (CSS) is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies human behavior and social systems using computational methods and research practices. In this episode, we will discuss CSS, what makes it different from other approaches in the social sciences, and attempt a definition.

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    Digital media in politics and society

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 33:53


    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 so, we look at some of the biggest controversies about the uses of digital media in politics and society. We look beyond the headlines and see what kind of scientific evidence is available, how this evidence is produced, and what it does tell us about the role of digital media in politics and society. This podcast will introduce you to the best available evidence on ongoing controversies, enable you to ask better questions on the role of digital media in politics and society, and show you the tools that allow you to answer them. Digital media are hear to stay. No matter how much some people might wish, there is no way back to a time and politics before. So, we'd better start figuring out how this works.

    Trailer: Tech and Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 2:41


    Trailer for Tech & Politics, the podcast of the Chair for Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.

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