ProPublica (2016): Breaking The Black Box, New York. In the age of increasing automation, in which machines are making more and more decisions for us, the information service “Breaking the Black Box” aims to shed more light on the thicket of automated decision-making systems. In a small series of articles, Read more…
critical data literacy, attention economy, social media, data, digital well-being
automated decision-making, New York City, awareness-raising, data literacy
DataSkop (2022). Simulator “Plattformdynamiken”. The simulator “Plattformdynamiken” is an interactive online tool that aims to demonstrate to users how recommendation algorithms (or “recommender systems”) work. These are used to sort and recommend content on many online platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Spotify or sales portals. The simulator allows users to Read more…
Opitz, Florian (2017): System Error – wie endet der Kapitalismus? Port-Au-Prince Produktion in Ko-Produktion mit spring, WDR und BR in Zusammenarbeit mit arte (Min. 1:30:27). “The financial markets are out of control and no longer have any connection to the real world. Algorithms and robots produce growth, but only work Read more…
Kids Code Jeunesse (o.J.): The Algorithm & Data Literacy Project. Kids Code Jeunesse (KCJ) and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) partnered up to launch the Algorithm Literacy Project to raise awareness and educate kids about the presence of algorithms and how they influence our digital experiences — in other Read more…
Die Carolin Kebekus Show (2021): Wie Künstliche Intelligenz Vorurteile programmiert. Das Erste-Sendung vom 17.06.2021 (7:49 Min). This excerpt from the Carolin Kebekus Show on June 21, 2021 is the best educational television with a mix of humor and scientific information in the form of bibliographic references in the subtitle and Read more…
Schneider, Julia & Ziyal, Lena Kadriye. (2019). We Need to Talk, AI. A Comic Essay on Artificial Intelligence. In 30 years, will robots do all the unpleasant work for us? Or will they subjugate us to become submissive slaves? The debates on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change our lives 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…