With the “Unstatistics of the Month”, the psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, statistician Walter Krämer, Katharina Schüller and RWI Vice President Thomas K. Bauer scrutinise both recently published figures and their interpretations every month. … Unstatistics wants to contribute to a factual and reasonable handling of data and facts. All issues of Read more…
Privacy International (2016-2017): Privacy-Courses. Advocacy Assembly. 4 videos provide an overview of the foundations and principles of the right to privacy, an overview of the state of research, the issue of data and surveillance, and the risks of data-intensive systems. Advocacy Assembly is a free digital learning platform with courses Read more…
Information Commissioner’s Office (2018): Your data matters, London. Your data matters is an information service provided by the UK Information Commissioners Office and supports individuals in knowing and exercising their rights in relation to their data and its reuse. The ICO is an independent UK authority for safeguarding information rights Read more…
Süddeutsche Zeitung (2019): Wie wir uns verraten, München. Data journalists from the Süddeutsche Zeitung recorded the data traffic of a test person on a Xiaomi Redmit 6a smartphone for 24 hours and evaluated which connections the operating system or an app set up to the Internet and where the data Read more…
Beware of Horses (2021): Made To Measure: Eine digitale Spurensuche. 2021 (44:18 Min.) (Verfügbar bis 30.08.2022) In the documentary, an actress reconstructs the life of the data donor based on the available Google search queries of recent years and reenacts scenes from her life. The data donor then meets her Read more…
Made To Measure. Ein Projekt initiiert und entwickelt von LAOKOON und der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, 2021. (1:03:06 Min.) Is it possible to reconstruct a doppelganger from a person’s Google searches over the last 5 years alone, without actually knowing the real person? An actress, as a customized doppelganger, reenacts the 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…
During the one-day, international online conference “Building Data Literacy with the Teaching Profession at Global Scale“, the “Critical Big Data and Algorithmic Literacy Network (CBDALN)” will present its work to an expert audience from education and social sciences, digital education, learning sciences, and teacher education. The workshop brings together staff Read more…
The Critical Big Data and Algorithmic Literacy Network (CBDALN) launches its first key project: An online database for ‘critical data literacy tools’. The database collects a variety of different resources that can be used to educate about big data and foster critical reflection of the datafication of our societies. The Read more…
Grillenberger, Andreas (2021): Big Data und Datenmanagemt im Informatikunterricht, Morschach. As part of the research project “Big Data and Data Management in Computer Science Education”, Andreas Grillenberger and Ralf Romeike, among others, have developed and published a series of partly tested teaching ideas and examples in the context of data Read more…