2022 – Data Empowerment

9th European Communication Conference (ECREA) 2022, Aarhus, Denmark

Data empowerment authorNovember 14, 2022November 14, 2022

We (Dennis Nguyen and Rhied Al-Othmani) were invited to present our "Public Values should be leading" research at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA) 2022, in Aarhus, Denmark. ECREA is an association...

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Centre for Digital Humanities Webinar: The news framing of Artificial Intelligence – June 6th

Data empowerment authorMay 20, 2022May 20, 2022

Date/Time09-06-202215:00 - 16:15 LocationOnline Free Registration The Utrecht University will close the Centre for Digital Humanities Spring program 2022 with an online lecture by Assistant Professor Dennis Nguyen on ‘The news framing...

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“Public values should be leading!” research to be presented during 9th European Communication Conference in Denmark

Data empowerment authorApril 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Dennis Nguyen & Rhied Al-Othmani Data Professionals' Views on Challenges to Value-Driven Data Practices and Critical Data Literacy in the Public Sector The increasing use of data and artificial intelligence...

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From Domain to Dominion? Charting the Global Expansion of Big Tech Colonialism

Data empowerment authorMarch 9, 2022March 9, 2022

Dennis Nguyen & Rhied Al-OthmaniIntroduction The dominance that data-driven technology companies hold over large parts of the global digital economy and across digital societies has been a key topic in...

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Recommender Systems in the Media and the Role of Public Values – Notes on an Interdisciplinary Approach

Data empowerment authorJanuary 17, 2022January 22, 2022

by Dennis Nguyen & Erik Hekman Automated decision-making systems that offer some sort of context-dependent recommendation are virtually ubiquitous in the digital society: they help us navigate our environment (Fesenmeier et...

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Digital Literacy, Computational Methods, and Digital Methods in Research on Datafication

Data empowerment authorJanuary 9, 2022January 11, 2022

By Dennis Nguyen The emerging field of critical data studies produced a wealth of sophisticated theorisation and eloquent critiques on the datafication and automation of society. However, most approaches are...