Democracy
Readings and case studies on the applications of data science in democracy and the ethical implications of using statistical models in such contexts.
Interactions with World
Interpreting Models as Knowledge
| Title | Citation |
|---|---|
| Weapons of Math Destruction | O’Neil (2016) |
| Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor | Eubanks (2018) |
| Algorithmic Content Moderation: Technical and Political challenges in the Automation of Platform Governance | Gorwa, Binns, & Katzenbach (2020) |
| Artificial Intelligence: Risks to Privacy and Democracy | Manheim & Kaplan (2018) |
| Pop-up Political Advocacy Communities on Reddit.com: SandersForPresident and The Donald | Mills (2017) |
| Artificial Intelligence in Politics: Establishing Ethics | Kane (2019) |
| Hey Google, Leave those Kids Alone: Against Hypernudging Children in the Age of Big Data | Smith & Villiers-Botha (2023) |
| Deep Learning Meets Deep Democracy: Deliberative Governance and Responsible Innovation in Artificial Intelligence | Buhmann & Fieseler (2022) |
| Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? | Helbing et al. (2017) |
| Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Chapter 6) | Gillespie (2018) |
| Ex-Content Moderator Sues Facebook, Saying Violent Images Caused Her PTSD | Hern (2019) |
| Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (Chapter 1) | Tufekci (2017) |
| You Think You Want Media Literacy: Do You? | Boyd (2018) |
| Machine Politics: The Rise of the Internet and a New Age of Authoritarianism | Turner (2019) |
| Judgment under Siege: The Three Body Problem of Expert Legitimacy | Jasanoff (2006) |
| In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium | Jasanoff (2003) |
References
Boyd, D. (2018). Machine politics: The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism. https://medium.com/datasociety-points/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2; Medium.
Buhmann, A., & Fieseler, C. (2022). Deep learning meets deep democracy: Deliberative governance and responsible innovation in artificial intelligence. Business Ethics Quarterly, 33(1), 146–179. https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.42
Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. New York, NY: St Martin’s Press.
Gillespie, T. (2018). Custodians of the internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Gorwa, R., Binns, R., & Katzenbach, C. (2020). Algorithmic content moderation: Technical and political challenges in the automation of platform governance. Big Data & Society, 7, 205395171989794. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719897945
Helbing, D., Frey, B. S., Gigerenzer, G., Hafen, E., Hagner, M., Hofstetter, Y., … Zwitter, A. J. (2017). Will democracy survive big data and artificial intelligence? Towards Digital Enlightenment. Retrieved from https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:46925747
Hern, A. (2019). Ex-Facebook worker claims disturbing content led to PTSD. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/04/ex-facebook-worker-claims-disturbing-content-led-to-ptsd; The Guardian.
Jasanoff, S. (2003). In a constitutional moment: Science and social order at the millennium. In Sociology of the Science Yearbook (pp. 155–180). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0185-4_8
Jasanoff, S. (2006). Judgment under siege: The three-body problem of expert legitimacy. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3754-6_12
Kane, T. (2019). Artificial intelligence in politics: Establishing ethics. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 38, 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2019.2894474
Manheim, K., & Kaplan, L. (2018). Artificial intelligence: Risks to privacy and democracy. Yale Journal of Law and Technology, 21, 106. Retrieved from https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:158157950
Mills, R. (2017). Pop-up political advocacy communities on reddit.com - SandersForPresident and the donald. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.10039
O’Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of math destruction. Crown Publishing Group.
Smith, J., & Villiers-Botha, T. de. (2023). Hey, google, leave those kids alone: Against hypernudging children in the age of big data. AI and Society, 38(4), 1639–1649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01314-w
Tufekci, Z. (2017). Twitter and tear gas: The power and fragility of networked protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Turner, F. (2019). Machine politics: The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism. https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/; Harper’s Magazine.