“Your Data Mirror Experience” is a personalized, story-based and interactive web application. The project is based on the user’s own data traces and shows what should remain hidden from users: the psychological profile that can be created from personal data in order to play out targeted (political) advertising and influence Read more…
“How Your Phone is Designed to Grab your Attention”is concerned with persuasive design strategies that have been optimised to gain the attention of users. It is part of the digital showcase-series “Capsule 1.0” of “Tactical Tech”, which addresses the following questions: What type of data do you give away through Read more…
The YouTube video ‘You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media’ uses video excerpts from interviews and speeches to illustrate the negative consequences of the surveillance capitalist interests of social media corporations, including scientifically proven psychological consequences such as addiction, depression, and loss of concentration. It Read more…
This is the website by the nonprofit organisation Center for Humane Technology. The website includes a variety of resources that can be used to educate about digital technologies and data, such as a film, a podcast, several toolkits and an online course. The website has individual sections for youth, parents Read more…
Interactive Media Foundation (2021): Your Data Mirror, Berlin. The website “Your Data Mirror” aims to sensitize young adults to the topic of data collection and draws attention to the connection between personal data and possible effects on democracy and society. An interactive and personalized web application based on users’ Instagram 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…
Helbing, Dirk (2017): Big Data-Forscher Dirk Helbing über den „perfekten Sturm“ der Digitalisierung. Markus Grill im Gespräch mit Dirk Helbing. Dirk Helbing calls for digital enlightenment to prevent the future vision of a society remotely controlled and fragmented by digital capitalism. Helbing calls for new digital infrastructures (open data, coordination, Read more…
Schaumann, Philipp (2017): Von der flächendeckenden Überwachung zur flächendeckenden Lenkung der Bürger. Big Data Algorithmen als Lenkungswerkzeug. Talk vom 24. Oktober auf der Privacy Week im Volkskundemuseum in Wien. The talk deals with the phenomenon of Big Data and describes the many areas of application in which human behavior is Read more…
Media Smart e. V. (2018): #Nachgefragt – Big Data: Was geht mich das an? Interview mit Gerda Sieben, Köln (2:36 min). In the interview, Gerda Sieben, head of the jfc Media Center, answers Media Smart’s questions about Big Data. Depending on the objective and purpose of the data analysis, the Read more…
Kriesel, David (2016): SpiegelMining – Reverse Engineering von Spiegel-Online. Talk auf dem CCC-Kongress am 28. Dezember 2016. David Kriesel has stored around 700,000 Spiegel Online articles and their versions since 2014, amassing a huge dataset on an important opinion leader. In the talk, Kriesel shows how such a dataset can Read more…