Class 2: Governance of/ and datafication

Provided by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Copenhagen Business School

Major Topics: Digital governance; Big data and datafication; Platform governance and economy

Lectures

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Core readings

Katzenbach, Christian; Ulbricht, Lena (2019): Algorithmic governance, Internet Policy Review, ISSN 2197-6775, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Vol. 8, Iss. 4, pp. 1-18, available via http://dx.doi.org/10.14763/2019.4.1424

Post-Lecture Assignment

  1. Find a recent data scandal, and briefly describe it.
  2. Map the different stakeholders and their stakes in the scandal.
  3. Reflect on your chosen data scandal: What kind of data governance has caused this scandal and could new data governance models (as indicated in the lecture) be a solution to avoid such scandal?
  4. Note down your case, observations and reflections in about 500 words.

Additional Material

Meijer, A., Lorenz, L., & Wessels, M. (2021). Algorithmization of bureaucratic organizations: Using a practice lens to study how context shapes predictive policing systems. Public Administration Review, 81(5), 837-846.

Berg, S./Hofmann, J. (2021): “Digital democracy“. In: Internet Policy Review – Journal on Internet Regulation, Vol. 10, No. 4, S. 1-23, available via https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3997151

Al Jazeera. Scrubbing the net: the content moderators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqKRaKiG-w