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View article: Empirical AI Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethics towards a Situated, Plural, and Transformative Approach
Empirical AI Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethics towards a Situated, Plural, and Transformative Approach Open
Mainstream AI ethics, with its reliance on top-down, principle-driven frameworks, fails to account for the situated realities of diverse communities affected by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Critics have argued that AI ethics frequently se…
View article: Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement
Development of a novel methodology for ascertaining scientific opinion and extent of agreement Open
We take up the challenge of developing an international network with capacity to survey the world’s scientists on an ongoing basis, providing rich datasets regarding the opinions of scientists and scientific sub-communities, both at a time…
View article: How platform power undermines diversity-oriented innovation
How platform power undermines diversity-oriented innovation Open
The paper contributes to the further development of platform studies by looking at the early stages of development. It draws on insights from an exemplary research and innovation project that aimed to develop a "diversity-aware online soci…
View article: Tackling Language Modelling Bias in Support of Linguistic Diversity
Tackling Language Modelling Bias in Support of Linguistic Diversity Open
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View article: Layers of technology in pluriversal design. Decolonising language technology with the LiveLanguage initiative
Layers of technology in pluriversal design. Decolonising language technology with the LiveLanguage initiative Open
Language technology has the potential to facilitate intercultural communication through meaningful translations. However, the current state of language technology is deeply entangled with colonial knowledge due to path dependencies and neo…
View article: Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device Open
In addition to tapping data from users’ behavioral surplus, by drawing on generative adversarial networks, data for artificial intelligence is now increasingly being generated through artificial intelligence. With this new method of produc…
View article: Layers of technology in pluriversal design decolonising language technology with the live language initiative
Layers of technology in pluriversal design decolonising language technology with the live language initiative Open
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View article: Diversity and Language Technology: How Techno-Linguistic Bias Can Cause Epistemic Injustice
Diversity and Language Technology: How Techno-Linguistic Bias Can Cause Epistemic Injustice Open
It is well known that AI-based language technology -- large language models, machine translation systems, multilingual dictionaries, and corpora -- is currently limited to 2 to 3 percent of the world's most widely spoken and/or financially…
View article: Towards Bridging the Digital Language Divide
Towards Bridging the Digital Language Divide Open
It is a well-known fact that current AI-based language technology -- language models, machine translation systems, multilingual dictionaries and corpora -- focuses on the world's 2-3% most widely spoken languages. Recent research efforts h…
View article: Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism Open
The extractive logic of Big Data-driven technology and knowledge production has raised serious concerns. While most criticism initially focused on the impacts on Western societies, attention is now increasingly turning to the consequences …
View article: Co-addictive human–machine configurations: Relating critical design and algorithm studies to medical-psychiatric research on “problematic Internet use”
Co-addictive human–machine configurations: Relating critical design and algorithm studies to medical-psychiatric research on “problematic Internet use” Open
Next to popular term Internet addiction, problematic Internet use (PIU) has established itself as an umbrella term for all types of repetitive impairing behaviors associated with new media technologies. Yet, debates about categorization, p…
View article: Diversity by Design? Balancing the Inclusion and Protection of Users in an Online Social Platform
Diversity by Design? Balancing the Inclusion and Protection of Users in an Online Social Platform Open
The unreflected promotion of diversity as a value in social interactions — including in technology-mediated ones — risks emphasizing the benefits of inclusion without recognizing the potential harm of failing to protect vulnerable individu…
View article: Promoting Ethical Awareness in Communication Analysis: Investigating Potentials and Limits of Visual Analytics for Intelligence Applications
Promoting Ethical Awareness in Communication Analysis: Investigating Potentials and Limits of Visual Analytics for Intelligence Applications Open
Digital systems for analyzing human communication data have become prevalent in recent years. Intelligence analysis of communications data in investigative journalism, criminal intelligence, and law present particularly interesting cases, …
View article: stsing: Doing STS In, Through And Beyond the German Academic System
stsing: Doing STS In, Through And Beyond the German Academic System Open
The recently constituted association stsing offers scholars a new platform to “do” STS in and through Germany (therefore the wording stsing). Specific about this platform is its creative and open understanding of collaboration on the one h…
View article: Designing Anonymity
Designing Anonymity Open
Creating anonymity means cutting connections. A common goal in this context is to prevent accountability. This prevention of accountability can be problematic, for example, if it leads to delinquents remaining undetected. However, imputabi…
View article: Anonymer Tanz als dekolonialisierende Praxis. Ein embodied Research Versuch
Anonymer Tanz als dekolonialisierende Praxis. Ein embodied Research Versuch Open
This paper addresses the question of how and with what consequences anonymity is used as a creative element in experiments dealing with alternative forms of knowledge production. More specifically, the focus is on a particular current in c…
View article: Anonymer Tanz als dekolonialisierende Praxis. Ein embodied Research\n Versuch
Anonymer Tanz als dekolonialisierende Praxis. Ein embodied Research\n Versuch Open
This paper addresses the question of how and with what consequences anonymity\nis used as a creative element in experiments dealing with alternative forms of\nknowledge production. More specifically, the focus is on a particular current\ni…
View article: Diversity by Design: Balancing Protection and Inclusion in Social Networks
Diversity by Design: Balancing Protection and Inclusion in Social Networks Open
The unreflected promotion of diversity as a value in social interactions -- including technology-mediated ones -- risks emphasizing the benefits of inclusion at the cost of not recognizing the potential harm from failing to protect stigmat…
View article: Normative Paradoxes of Privacy: Literacy and Choice in Platform Societies
Normative Paradoxes of Privacy: Literacy and Choice in Platform Societies Open
Privacy scholars, advocates, and activists repeatedly emphasize the fact that current measures of privacy protection are insufficient to counter the systemic threats presented by datafication and platformization (van Dijck, de Waal, and Po…
View article: Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model
Linking loose ends: An interdisciplinary privacy and communication model Open
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experie…
View article: Linking Loose Ends: An Interdisciplinary Privacy and Communication Model
Linking Loose Ends: An Interdisciplinary Privacy and Communication Model Open
In the recent decades, privacy scholarship has made significant progress. Most of it was achieved in monodisciplinary works. However, privacy has a deeply interdisciplinary nature. Most importantly, societies as well as individuals experie…