Podcasts about Datafication

At the turn of the 20th century, the anti-immigration and eugenics movements used data about marginalized people to fuel racial divisions and political violence under the guise of streamlining society toward the future. Today, as the tech industry champions itself as a global leader of progress and innovation, we are falling into the same trap.On April 10th, Anita Say Chan, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (UCP 2025 and open access), joined Émile P. Torres and Timnit Gebru for a discussion of the 21st century eugenics revival in big tech and how to resist it in a conversation moderated by Trustworthy Infrastructures Program Director Maia Woluchem. Predatory Data is the first book to draw this direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and today's often violent and extractive “big data” regimes. Torres and Gebru have also extensively studied the second wave of eugenics, identifying a suite of tech-utopian ideologies they call the TESCREAL bundle.Purchase your own copy of Anita Say Chan's book Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future: https://bookshop.org/a/14284/9780520402843.Learn more about the event at datasociety.net (https://datasociety.net/events/resisting-predatory-data/).

Mon Carnet, le podcast de Bruno Guglielminetti Vendredi 18 avril 2025 Débrief avec Jérôme Colombain : (2:16) L'actu tech de la semaine Entrevues : Femmes et podcast avec Mélanie Vazeux (21:24) Datafication de la société avec Mélanie Millette (36:13) PROMPT : Liette Lamonde rencontre Laurent Ferrier (57:20) Billets : Berthomet : Grand ménage du printemps chez Spotify (1:07:02) Ricoul : L'IA, innovation réelle ou simple discours marketing ? (1:16:43) Entrevue : Poulin : Quand le mot "design" dérange avec Éric Letarte (1:27:44) Collaborateurs : Jérôme Colombain, Stéphane Berthomet, Stéphane Ricoul, et Jean-François Poulin www.MonCarnet.com Une production de Guglielminetti.com Avril 2025 ============== Équipe Martin DuTou - Faites évaluer votre entreprise grâce à un outil innovant et obtenez un rabais exclusif de 250$ sur les services! Rencontre gratuite : https://bit.ly/dutou-moncarnet (PUBLICITE)

In the United States, Black maternal health is in steep decline. Despite increased awareness and better data about the depths of racial health disparities, outcomes for Black birthing people remain poor. At the same time, a revolution in healthcare technologies is underway, and as they provide care at the frontlines of a crisis, birth workers are figuring out how to make digital health technologies work for them and their patients.In "Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience," Joan Mukogosi explores how digital health technologies can produce new forms of harm for Black birthing people — by exposing Black patients to carceral systems, creating information silos that impede interoperability, and failing to meet privacy standards. By paying close attention to how clinical contexts and their associated digital technologies impact how care is delivered, this research offers a glimpse into possibilities for improved cohesion between digital health technologies and birth work.Learn more about Data & Society at datasociety.net.

In seinem heutigen Podcast diskutiert Erik mit Carsten Schwecke, Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Seven.One Media und Matthias Dang, CCTDO von RTL Deutschland, über “Datafication of TV” und mit welchem Technologieansatz sie gemeinsam die Effizienz von Werbung steigern sowie Barrieren zwischen “digital” und “linear” abschaffen wollen. Im Einzelnen geht es um folgende Aspekte: - Werbekunden Dilemma: Erreiche ich im TV überhaupt noch meine Zielgruppe (in gewünschter Intensität und Wirkung)? - Welche Idee steckt hinter eurem gemeinsamen Ansatz “Datafication of TV”? - Wie wird die Erfolgsmessung in eure programmatischen Pläne mit eingebaut? - Wie bewertet ihr den Markteintritt von Amazon Prime Ads mit deren programmatischen Ansätzen und hoher Customer Base? - Wer sind heute und perspektivisch die schlauesten Advertiser? Carsten Schwecke (47) ist seit Oktober 2023 Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Seven.One Media. In dieser Position verantwortet der Digital-Experte alle Werbevermarktungsbereiche bei ProSiebenSat.1 sowie die Weiterentwicklung der Werbeangebote, insbesondere in den Bereichen Joyn und innovative Werbeformen wie Advanced TV (Connected TV, Addressable TV und Programmatic TV). Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann der Diplom-Kaufmann 2002 in der Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. Nach weiteren Führungspositionen war Schwecke CEO des Axel-Springer-Vermarkters Media Impact und zuletzt CEO der Axel Springer All Media, wo er maßgeblich die digitale Transformation und Entwicklung neuer digitaler Geschäftsfelder vorantrieb. Matthias Dang ist Chief Commercial, Technology & Data Officer (CCTDO) von RTL Deutschland. In dieser Funktion führt er alle kommerziellen, technologischen und digitalen Aktivitäten des Unternehmens. Gleichzeitig ist er CEO des Vermarkters Ad Alliance. Von September 2021 bis Dezember 2023 war Matthias Dang Co-CEO von RTL Deutschland und zuvor drei Jahre als Geschäftsführer für die Bereiche Vermarktung, Technologie & Daten verantwortlich. Der Medienmanager verantwortet bereits seit 2012 die Geschäftsführung des RTL-Vermarkters, zunächst als Geschäftsführer IP Deutschland, dann als CEO der Ad Alliance.

Tonight ,on our programming at The Bow ,we do Datafication & Digitalization 2( this is a followup to our 14 April,2023 podcast on Datafication & Digitalization 1).We look at the partnerships in Nigeria just to make sure that our unique database called Civil Registration & Vital Statistics (CRVS) helps to improve our medicare system in Nigeria (thereby achieving the UN SDG goal 3 Good health & wellbeing of the people) . --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/THE-BOW/support

David Meechan unpicks the issues around the reception baseline assessment, he shares his research with us, as well as his personal experience as a parent, including requesting his son's withdrawal from the assessment and having to work with solicitors on this matter. David discusses his view on data, which should 'drive inclusion and promote access', rather than data being part of a reductionist model. David explains that the baseline assessment is in fact reproducing faults of an old system, rather than coming up with transformative or innovative ways of measuring children's progress. At the end David gives insight into his research findings around some positives teachers have taken from making the most of the reception baseline assessment, and he gives tips for teachers currently conducting the assessment.  Episode breakdown:  01:20 - How David's work started on the reception baseline 02:40 - Requesting his son's withdrawal from the assessment  04:45 - Inconsistencies of withdrawal from the assessment 06:20 - Moral issues with assessment and testing 08:20 - Research into the baseline assessment 11:30 - Signing away a child's data footprint 12:47 - The datafication of early years 16:00 - Are the children's best interests at heart?  17:30 - Taking teachers out of classrooms 18:58 - Key findings from David's baseline research 20:40 - Treating children as a means to an end 24:25 - Making the most of the reception baseline assessment 26:00 - A holistic approach to the baseline assessment 27:30 - Reliability of the baseline assessment 29:00 - Reducing lived experiences to abstract numbers 31:05 - Positives taken from the baseline assessment  33:00 - Giving value to assessment 36:55 - Tips for teachers conducting the baseline assessment Hear and read more on The Voice of Early Childhood website: www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com

About our Guest:Dr Teresa Scassahttps://techlaw.uottawa.ca/people/scassa-teresahttps://www.teresascassa.ca Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:Robinson, P., & Scassa, T. (2022). The Future of Open Data.https://ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/43648/1/9780776629759_WEB.pdfScassa, T. (2020). Designing data governance for data sharing: lessons from sidewalk Toronto.Scassa, T., Robinson, P., & Mosoff, R. (2022). The Datafication of Wastewater:: Legal, Ethical and Civic Considerations. Technology and Regulation, 2022, 23-35Scassa, T. (2022). The surveillant university: Remote proctoring, AI, and human rights. Can. J. Comp. & Contemp. L., 8, 271.Scassa, T. (2023). Regulating AI in Canada: A critical look at the proposed artificial intelligence and data act. The Canadian Bar Review, 101(1) Other:This episode was edited using an 'AI' tool for part of the workflow and part of the intro was written by AI.  The intro was then rewritten and some of the work of the other AI tool had to be redone manually.   We are at the 'click a button and it is done' stage yet.    

Jan Dubiel and Angelica Celinska discuss the highly debated topic of data in early childhood. The term 'datafication of early childhood' is used to describe the over use of data in the sector. Jan discusses the need to have a more measured conversation about data in early childhood education. In this episode Angelica and Jan explore the challenges, controversies and importance of data, including statutory assessments such as the EYFS Profile and the Baseline Assessment, for example, considering that it is not the issue of having a baseline, it's the type of baseline and how the data is used. Jan and Angelica tap into: 01:00 - Resistance to data in early childhood 02:45 - What do we mean by data? 03:25 - Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts 05:45 - How can we represent children's learning authentically? 06:30 - Progress is not always sequential  07:20 - 'Early years-ifying' language and data 09:00 - Data is a way of knowing whether we are getting it right or not 10:00 - Is recording data taking us away from children? 13:20 - Stronger advocacy with the use of data 15:00 - Early Years Foundation Stage Profile  18:50 - Reception Baseline Assessment  22:15 - Data which works for the setting and the children 24:10 - Juxtaposition between early years data and health data 25:20 - Leuven scales of involvement and wellbeing 29:20 - It is vital for educators to take ownership of data in early childhood 31:00 - Evidence based-practice, qualitative data and quantifiable data 32:00 - Reframing data - is it useful? Read and hear more on The Voice of Early Childhood website: www.thevoiceofearlychildhood.com

On this episode of Research Radio we have Khaliq Parkar discussing his paper titled “Platformisation, Infrastructuring, and Datafication: Regional Variations in the Digitalisation of Indian Cities” which he co-authored with Marie-Helene Zerah and Gaurav Mittal. Khaliq Parkar is with the Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatique (CESSMA) Université Paris Cité, Paris. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

"It's about taking a step back to ask yourself: Should we even have a data-driven system for this?" («Det handler om å ta et steg tilbake for å spørre seg: Skal vi i det hele tatt ha et data-drevent system på dette her?»)We finish season 2 with a though-provoking episode, to maybe start som debate about data-driven public administration.Lisa Reutter is PostDoc at the University of Copenhagen connected to a project called: «Datafied Living». We talk about the importance of Social Science in Data, and how data is intertwined with our lives. Lisa is researching in the field of «Critical data and algorithm studies», at the interplay between tech, data and society.Here are my key takeaways:Data in Public AdministrationFor a modern state to function properly and to ensure citizen rights, services, security, etc is provided the state needs data.Data Management by the state for its citizens is not a new concept but has a long historical foundation.During the last years we use more, different and new data in administrative processes, and enhance technological development and a tool box to derive value from dataPublic administration has had a monopoly over management and ownership for citizen data. But this has been challenged by private companies.Data-driven systems in public sector are not there for profit, but to create value for society. Therefor they need to be build on and with the purpose to enhance our democratic values.RegistersNorway and other Scandinavian countries have established national registers to manage and administrate society.There is a reason why registers are not unified in Norway, and this is to ensure a balance of powersThe opposite example, of what can happen if a state collects information on its citizens without boundaries, is to be found in the GDR (Eastern Germany)If all data of all aspects of your life are collected one place, it is really easy to misuse this dataThrough data a state could see, predict, and control the behaviors of citizens.The public debate about data-drivenDiscussions can and should be about what data are we collecting, where do we store data, what are we using data for, who could and should have access to that data, etc.Even with public debate about data use in public administration, limits and boundaries can never be defined clearly. Also because this is individual and relative to context.Datafication is a political act. The citizens need to be involved in the process of technological advancement and intelligent use of data.The debate around «data-driven public administration» in Norway, has not included the public actively.Customer-centric vs. data-as-an-asset vs. democratizing dataIs there a rhetorical ambiguity between being customer-centric and data-as-an-asset?Data democratization demands that citizens have to use their time, resources and energy to ensure that public administration is working correctly.Is making data available leading to commercial parties capitalizing on that data and building solutions, rather than creating transparency for citizens?The right education and skills are important, but it needs to be available and attainable for all parts of society.Data Literacy is an own subject that is in dispute about what it should contain.We need to understand, that this has implications on how we...1. Trust in the state2. Trade - what do I give my data for? What do I get in return?3. Build in accepted ways4.  Weight opportunities against risk5. Ensure that the responsibility for understanding does not lie with the citizen alone6. Gain knowledge, and how everyone can get it7. Should invite for debate

Today ,on The Bow, we look at DATAFICATION & DIGITALIZATION OF NIGERIA as we look at efforts to map Nigeria even as we are days away from the 2023 Census.This is a followup to our Nov 11 and 13 , 2022 podcasts on Disappearances In Nigeria and our 27 Jan 2023 podcast on The 2023 Census In Nigeria.Will this make Nigeria safer and stop disappearances? Please listen to this episode by visiting The Bow https://anchor.fm/THE-BOW --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/THE-BOW/support

Sam Sellar (UniSA) is a leading commentator on the rise of numbers and data in education and education policy. We discuss the phenomenon of ‘PISA-shock', the emergence of algorithms, AI and ‘synthetic governance' in education, as well as the benefits of reading well beyond the education research literature.

Since she was a student at Northwestern, University Trustee Jane S. Hoffman '86 ('21 P) has been interested in how messages and media are constructed and consumed. And found she could help others understand complex subjects through storytelling and accessible language, and through public service. As Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in New York City, Hoffman found herself never tiring of hearing people's problems and finding solutions. During her run for Lieutenant Governor of New York she describes how she had the opportunity to tour the entire state and listen to her potential constituents and understand the issues impacting them and their communities. Hoffman tell us how she later founded the Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy to help force politicians and their policy makers to talk about the existential threat of climate change in a public forum. And subsequently introduce language around climate change into common discourse. Helping others understand complex subjects such as data, privacy, money, and sustainability through accessible language is a through line in her career path. In this episode of Northwestern Intersections Hoffman joins us for a conversation that highlights her recent book, Your Data, Their Billions: Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech. Understanding the great benefits and genuine risks of navigating the internet and new technology is essential in our increasingly virtual world. She shares how her book offers an accessible explanation of how big tech collects and trades our data to make profits, and how her policy proposals would protect online users' privacy rights. And how you can take meaningful steps towards safeguarding your privacy while enjoying the positive features the internet has to offer. Northwestern Alumni Association is offering alumni in the United States a chance to win one of 10 signed copies of the book Your Data, Their Billions: Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech.  To participate, complete the form: alumni.northwestern.edu/IntersectionsGiveaway or request to be entered by emailing intersections@northwestern.edu by 11:59 p.m. CDT on August 18, 2022. No payment or donation is required, nor will it improve one's chances of winning. The giveaway is limited to one book, per household (a $28 retail value) and limited to Northwestern alumni who are United States residents and at least 18 years of age. Shipping and handling of the book will be covered by the Northwestern Alumni Association.  

How do educational policy studies need to shift to remain adequate to the emergence of powerful forms of technology? In ALGORITHMS OF EDUCATION, Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar, and P. Taylor Webb explore how, for policy makers, big data creates the illusion of greater control over educational futures. They propose that schools and governments are increasingly turning to “synthetic governance”—where what is human and what is machine becomes less clear—as a strategy for optimizing education. In this episode, Gulson and Sellar discuss new strategies for, and a new politics of, education.Kalervo N. Gulson is professor in education policy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Education Policy, Space, and the City: Markets and the (In)visibility of Race and coauthor of Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in Multicultural Cities. Sam Sellar is professor in education policy at the University of South Australia. Most recently he coedited the World Yearbook of Education 2019: Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks.References:N. Katherine HaylesLuciana ParisiGilles DeleuzeFélix GuattariBernard StieglerPierre BourdieuMichel FoucaultIsabelle StengersKeller Easterling (Extrastatecraft)AlphaGo (and 2017 documentary of it)Shoshana Zuboff

Todays conversation is about Datafication!https://www.techopedia.com/definition/30203/datafication

Jenna Burrell, Director of Research at Data & Society, in conversation with Anne Washington, Assistant Professor of Data Policy at NYU, and Deidre Mulligan, Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Part one in a series of three Conversations on The Datafied State. The role of government is distinct from the private sector. Governments serve the public and prioritize values beyond market fit and return on investment. Governments interface with advocacy groups, unions, and other publics and not just individuals. In their approach to solving problems using computational, data-driven systems, governments have an opportunity to model responsible, accountable, and accessible tech. But what exactly would it mean for that tech to be in “the public interest,” and how are such publics constituted?

About our Interview Guest:Dr Anita Lavorgnahttps://www.southampton.ac.uk/sociology/about/staff/ai11n14.page Papers and Publications Mentioned in this Episode:Lavorgna, A., & Holt, T. J. (Eds.). (2021). Researching cybercrimes : methodologies, ethics, and critical approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74837-1This book contains the following major sections:Knowledge Production and Research Datafication in Cybercrime ResearchMethodologies and Strategies for Cybercrime ResearchGeographies and Cultures of Ethics in Cybercrime Research Lavorgna, A., & Ugwudike, P. (2021). The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control. Big Data & Society, 8(2), 20539517211049670.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20539517211049670 About our Expert Guest:Dr. Joshua Jameshttps://dfir.science/https://www.youtube.com/DFIRScience What we learned:What is the difference between digital evidence and physical evidence for investigators ?Digital evidence always requires active interpretation because it is an abstract series of electrical symbols. Because of this, the interpretation is very important but very difficult. Unlike physical evidence, it can be tested and analyzed indefinitely because it can be copied perfectly, and the accuracy of copies can be verified with hashes. Other:This episode's track is called 'surfing on white noise'. Not all of the songs for podcast episodes get a name, but it did this time.

Digital technologies and platform models are fundamentally changing our economic system. The processing and use of our data through digitalisation has led to new forms of revenue and economic models and thus to new power structures and a new form of capitalism.

The digitalisation of our world is bringing about a multitude of changes in our society: from the way we handle data to our social system to our economic and social order. What do these developments mean for fundamental principles such as equality and fairness? How can we understand the use of technologies that are becoming increasingly efficient but less accessible to the human mind?

What would it take to truly disrupt and change the future of education? We discuss this and other thoughtful questions on this week's episode with Dr. Walter Balsar.  Walter is a leadership instructor at the University of South Florida and the University of Denver. His scholarship seeks to help organizational leaders adapt to a rapidly evolving information ecosystem, specifically applying open source mindsets and systems to learning-based organizations. He is the founder of the Open Partnership Education Network (learnopen.org), a community-based learning platform, and Radschools.org, a collaborative supporting K-12 schools and agencies. His ideas have been featured in academic journals, popular media, and a recent book chapter in Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society: From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust. Contact Walter: wbalser@mail.usf.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/wbalser/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the podcast series, Natalie Kerby of Data & Society asks her guests: How long has human life been quantified as data, and in what contexts? What are some major implications of humanity being measured as data? How are people pushing back against the datafication of human life, work, health, and citizenship?She speaks with academics, artists, activists, and journalists to explore these questions and more. 

In this episode, CSS’s President and Founder John Lee joins Natalie Silverman to discuss what the future of RegTech looks like in five years, from innovation in machine-learning and AI from both RegTech firms and the regulators, to the digitization and datafication of financial services.

It's a New Year, and may soon be a new world! Shobita and Jack discuss the big changes brewing in the US and UK, from the new president to Brexit, and consider what it all means for science and technology policy. And we chat with Lina Dencik, Professor and Director of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University.Lina Dencik (2019). "Social Justice in an Age of Datafication." Talk at the Alan Turing Institute. May 28.Lina Dencik,Arne Hintz, Joanna Redden & Emiliano Treré (2019). "Exploring Data Justice: Conceptions, Applications and Directions." Information, Communication, and Society. 22(7): 873-881.Javier Sánchez-Monedero and Lina Dencik (2020). "The politics of deceptive borders: ‘biomarkers of deceit’ and the case of iBorderCtrl." Information, Communication, and Society. 1-18.Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, and Lilian Edwards (2020). "What does it mean to 'solve' the problem of discrimination in hiring?: social, technical and legal perspectives from the UK on automated hiring systems." FAT* '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. pp. 458–468.

"Datafication, Financialization, and… Basketball?" - Owls at Dawn, Episode 139Main Segment: Data, Finance, and BasketballAustin’s IG: @aus_hay Austin’s Twitter: @austin_hayden Troy’s Twitter: @axwielderofdeth OaD Twitter: @owls_at_dawn Music by Blue Ducks - "Four Inches of Water"___________For OaD merch, visit our site here.To gain access to bonus episodes, the monthly newsletter, and more, visit our Patreon account. All funds will go toward producing further content, increasing our ability to engage with you, and improving our technical production.@owls_at_dawn | owlsatdawnpodcast@gmail.com | patreon.com/owlsatdawn

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King's College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable. Some have argued that representation has diminished in humanitarian crises as people are increasingly reduced to data points. In turn, this data has become ever more difficult to analyse without vast computing power, leading to a dependency on the old colonial powers to refine the data collected from people in crisis, before selling it back to them. Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping (University of London Press, 2020) brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations, and questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. Doug Sprecht is a Chartered Geographer (CGeog. FRGS), a Senior Lecturer (SFHEA) and the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster. His research examines how knowledge is constructed and codified through digital and cartographic artefacts, focusing on development issues in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he has carried out extensive fieldwork. He also writes and researches on pedagogy, and is author of the Media and Communications Student Study Guide. He speaks and writes on topics of data ethics, development, education and mapping practices at conferences and invited lectures around the world. He is a member of the editorial board at Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, and the journal Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman. He is also Chair of the Environmental Network for Central America. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On 10 and 11 October 2019 MMGA co-founder, Ruben Brave, presented our applied science initiative Make Media Great Again (MMGA) at the Post-Truth Society Conference on Malta: "From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust"; an initiative of new media teacher of the University of Malta and founding Director of the Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning, Alex Grech. The Post-Truth conference included speakers from MIT Medialab, Stanford University, The Economist, Worldbank and Google. See the full transcript The Institute of Network Cultures: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2019/10/16/ruben-brave-reports-from-post-truth-conference-in-malta/ or the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=VblrqLJx0SI and the Q&A afterwards: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km32XAG7Duo

The idea that human perceptual systems, bodily and social knowledge can be explicated and used in interface design processes, training datasets and enhancing the experience of ‘end users’ runs across many areas including robotics, AI, surveillance and immersive VR. Artists, scientists and industrialists are all busy responding to the latest technology advances. The field of contemporary dance can be drawn into this discussion, particularly through a number of seminal projects initiated by leading choreographers, including Motion Bank. Based in Mainz, Germany, Motion Bank has worked with several dance artists, such as William Forsythe, to document, digitise and openly share ‘dance knowledge’. In this talk, examples from these projects will be shown to stimulate questions related to the ownership of such knowledge, humanising technology, safeguarding intangible heritage and a reflection on the potential loss of certain practices. About the speaker Scott deLahunta has worked on a range of projects bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. He is Professor of Dance at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University and co-director Motion Bank, Mainz University of Applied Sciences.

We were joined by Productsup for this latest instalment of the Comma Podcast, discussing product data! Productsup provide cloud-based software for feed management, data optimization and product content syndication. There is no other tool that lets you manage large amounts of product data as quickly and easily. We welcomed to our panel: - Enterprise Architect, Boden, Alex Ives - SVP Strategic Partnerships, Productsup, Emile Bloemen - Head of MDM, Comma Group, Chris Collings Following their discussion they were put under the microscope as they took questions from the audience! As always not an empty seat in the house, and a great night had by all, thank you to all involved. If you have any questions you wish had been answered feel free to get in touch! And if you enjoy the #CommaPod please like, share, and rate us on here and in iTunes.

Increasing technological innovation have generated significant amounts of data, with an estimated 98% of all the world’s information being stored digitally. But data is only of value if it’s captured, stored effectively an analysed to generate insights which are then actioned. Analytics has provided a means for assessing a wide range of human behaviours performance […] The post Datafication of HR: Driving Strategic Use Cases for People Analytics with HSBC appeared first on HRD.

Nick Couldry has recently coined the term 'data colonialism' in order to highlight continuities from colonialism’s historic appropriation of resources to today's datafication of everyday life. He visited us in Berlin for his lecture "Colonised by data". HIIG researcher Thomas Christian Bächle met with Couldry – who once was his professor at Goldsmiths College in London eleven years ago – for a talk on the digital society. In this episode, we learn about Couldry's very own media rituals – celebrity spotting and falling asleep to the radio news – as well as how a media professor is dealing with knowing what kind of personal data WhatsApp is collecting. Also: What exactly is data colonialism? How is it different from concepts such as surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, 2018) or data capitalism?

Dr. Jakob Svensson, Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Malmö University, guests to share his research on the logics that drive digital media. We discuss how algorithms and datafication are shaped by developers, and the types of biases that can occur as a result. We also talk about the political implications of artificial intelligence. The two studies referenced in the episode are: Study 1 (2015): The Emergence of Network Media Logic in Political Communication: A Theoretical Approach Study 2 (2018): The End of Media Logics? On Algorithms and Agency

Datafication from birth, 5G could end traditional broadband and science says screens don't affect sleep. If you're listening on the go, check out munchtech.tv/mobile to find out more about our mobile applications. Enjoy the show? We'd appreciate if you could leave an iTunes rating or review to let us know!

This episode will be brought to you in association with Reltio, a leader in the Forrester Wave for Machine Learning Data Catalogs. With this in mind we have put together a panel of knowledgeable figures within the industry to have a discussion around the future of data including AI and Machine Learning. These speakers include John Telford (Head of Data Architecture - The Trainline), Ramon Chen (Chief Product Officer - Reltio), and our very own Mike Evans (Chief Technical Officer - Comma). Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't quite make an appearance, but there was definitely some interesting discussion about how far technology is going to take us into the future! We had a great time making this happen, we hope you enjoy it! Thank you to everyone who came and participated. If you have any questions you wish had been answered feel free to get in touch! And if you enjoy the #CommaPod please like, share, and rate us on here and in iTunes.

We’ve all heard the terms “Big Data,” Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. They are supposedly at the heart of a Fourth Industrial Revolution that, because of technology, is altering the way in which we live, work, and relate to one another. But how is this so-called era of datafication transforming what we mean by both “comparative” and “education”? Earlier this month, the Post Foundational Approaches to Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society organized a webinar entitled “The Datafication of Comparative Education.” The webinar brought together NelliPiattoeva, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, and Noah W. Sobe. I moderated the discussion, which focused on how data and algorithms are reshaping ways of thinking, seeing, acting, and feeling in educational research, policy, and practice. In this special addition of FreshEd, I’m going to replay our conversation because I think there is a lot of critical work to be done on cybernetic systems in education. http://www.freshedpodcast.com/freshed-116-the-datafication-of-comparative-education/

Victoria Lemieux examines how we can ensure and establish authenticity in a world of increasing datafication of records. Where and how do we create, find and preserve records and the archives in an increasingly distributed world? Will the preservation of human history and human collective memory be the main concern of archival science in the age of AI, robotics and, possibly, post-humanity as we know it? Dr. Victoria Lemieux is an Associate Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her current research is focused on risk to the availability of trustworthy records, in particular in blockchain record-keeping systems. She holds a doctorate from University College London (Archival Studies, 2002), and, since 2005, has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). She is also the winner of the 2015 Emmett Leahy Award for outstanding contributions to the field of records management, a 2015 World Bank Big Data Innovation Award, and a 2016 Emerald Literati Award for her research on blockchain technology. Our Big Ideas seminar series is funded by the Friends of The National Archives.

The Comma Podcast went on tour to take the MDM message to the nation! We were joined in London by a panel of speakers to discuss #Data #MDM and #DataGovernance followed by some audience driven questions, and some out of the box commentary... We had a great time making this happen, we hope you enjoy it! Thank you to everyone who came and participated. If you have any questions you wish had been answered feel free to get in touch! And if you enjoy the #CommaPod please like, share, and rate us on here and in iTunes.

This week on Datafication we travelled all the way to snowy Hamburg and managed to chat to Ben Rund (General Manager DACH/EE & VP Business Development Europe at Riversand Technologies). Our American MD Derek Corrick and Callum, our residential voice of Comma, caught up with Ben and explored some of the challenges faced when trying to initiate a digital transformation program, as well as offering some practical advice on how to get started. If you have enjoyed listening to Datafication please like and share, and subscribe via iTunes for upcoming episodes. Be sure to tune in next time for the #CommaPodLive discussing Data in the digital age!

Welcome back for the third time to the Comma Podcast! We have had the pleasure of speaking to our US Managing Director, Derek Corrick, all the way from Atlanta speaking to us about digital transformation. We hope you find it as interesting as we did! If you have enjoyed listening to Datafication please like and share, and subscribe via iTunes for upcoming episodes!

In this second episode of the #commapod we look into the unknown world of GDPR... What is it? Why should you care about it? How can you turn it into an opportunity? We hold interviews with both our Managing Director, Stuart Squires, and data protection consultant Matt Anslow to try and demystify the upcoming GDPR challenge. If you have enjoyed listening to Datafication please like and share, and subscribe via iTunes for upcoming episodes!

Welcome to the Comma podcast! In this first episode we meet some of the founders of Comma, introduce who we are and what we do, and explain why we felt the need to make a data podcast in the first place. We hope you enjoy the listen! Please like and share.

Social and communication theorists Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp draw on their recent book "The Mediated Construction of Reality" (Polity 2016) to explore what happens to the concept and practice of 'social order' in the era of datafication. Today we are living in an era not just of mediatization, but deep mediatization where every element of social process and social life is composed of elements that have already been mediated. This shifts the question of media's 'influence' on the social into a higher-dimensional problem. Datafication is a good example of this, and its tension with classical forms of social phenomenology will be discussed in detail in the talk. Developing particularly the social theory of Norbert Elias (and his concept of 'figuration'), Couldry and Hepp explore how social theory can help us grasp the deep conflicts that exist today between our material systems of interdependence (particularly those focussed on information technology and data processing systems) and the normative principles such as freedom and autonomy. Such conflicts as legal theorists such as Julie Cohen note are crucial to the life of democratic subjects and the orders (democratic or not) that they inhabit. For more info on this event visit: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/10/CouldryHepp

In recent years, the effects of digitalization are starting to appear. Sensor data and algorithms recognize who you are and then open the apartment door and turn on the lights. Data-driven AI helps you find what you want on Google, Amazon and Netflix. Datafication is everywhere. In this Medea Vox episode, Sarah Pink and Maria Engberg discuss the pitfalls of data-driven decision making, ethical data futures, and how people – of course – will tinker with the algorithms in their autonomous vehicles.

In recent years, the effects of digitalization are starting to appear. Sensor data and algorithms recognize who you are and then open the apartment door and turn on the lights. Data-driven AI helps you find what you want on Google, Amazon and Netflix. Datafication is everywhere. In this Medea Vox episode, Sarah Pink and Maria Engberg discuss the pitfalls of data-driven decision making, ethical data futures, and how people – of course – will tinker with the algorithms in their autonomous vehicles.

Arne Hintz, Lina Dencik The technical ability to turn vast amounts of activity and human behaviour into data points that can be tracked and profiled has led to significant changes across government, business and civil society. Whilst the documents on digital surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden led to important questions being asked about what this means for individual rights to privacy and the protection of personal data, concerns with datafication are now increasingly shifting towards a more explicit engagement with power. These concerns emphasise that data processes are not ‘flat' and do not implicate everyone in the same way, but, rather, are part of a system of ‘social sorting', creating new categories of citizens that are premised on a new order of ‘have' and ‘have nots' between data profilers and data subjects. In such a context, questions of social justice come to the fore in discussions of datafication. What are the implications of, for example, the use of data scores in predictive policing, the criminal justice system, migration management, and health insurances; or of omnipresent monitoring of citizens in ‘smart cities'? How do we address new data-based challenges to civil and democratic rights? Do we have the tools and concepts to properly understand them? In this presentation we explore the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication. We propose ‘data justice' as a frame for an agenda of both research and action. This agenda moves beyond notions of individual privacy to broader questions of social justice in a digital society, and connects questions of (and campaigns on) digital and non-digital rights. It brings together discussions on the political economy of digital platforms, surveillance, technological design, and power shifts between citizens and the state. And it is a call for action to address key problems of our times in new ways. The talk will draw on the work of a new research initiative, the Data Justice Lab, as well as similar initiatives. 

Christine von Oertzen from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Datafication and Visualization of Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.