Tech and Politics

Andreas Jungherr
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One of the most important challenges societies face today is how to make sense of digital media. We are deeply uncertain about their impact: mechanisms, conditions, and opportunities of and for their uses remain unclear. The goal the podcast is to help you to make sense of digital media, the changes it brings, and the challenges it presents. This podcast accompanies the lecture series Digital Media in Politics & Society of the Chair for the Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.

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  1. 第 1 集

    Data

    Data are crucial for the discussion of politics and digital media. Understanding the core concepts and issues arising from the quantification of social and political life and the resulting data is important for engaging in many of the subsequent controversies of the uses of digital media in politics.

    23 分鐘

  2. 第 2 集

    Measurement

    Quantification makes some things visible, while hiding others. To better understand this process, we have to examine how things become numbers, we have to examine measurement.

    18 分鐘

  3. 第 3 集

    Observing and shaping the world with data

    Data provide a reduced representation of the world and promise to uncover hidden patterns and connections between entities that remain invisible in their full, unreduced manifestation in the world. This allows people and organizations to make sense of the world, and increase their level of control.

    23 分鐘

  4. 第 4 集

    Privacy

    This episode sketches the tensions that arise from the drive to generate data-enabled insights and people's expectations and rights to privacy.

    22 分鐘

  5. 第 5 集

    Algorithms

    Algorithms are sets of steps by which to solve pre-defined tasks. Today the term appears predominantly in connection with computing. Algorithms allow computers to perform tasks. They are crucial in the advances of computer-enabled analysis and automation.

    23 分鐘

  6. 第 6 集

    Algorithmic Support

    Algorithms are also used to provide suggestions and advice.Iit is helpful to differentiate between algorithms providing advice and suggestions to experts and those providing advice and suggestions for lay people and users of digital communication environments and services.

    19 分鐘

  7. 第 7 集

    Algorithmic Action & Fairness

    In this episode, we focus on algorithmic action and fairness.

    21 分鐘

  8. 第 8 集

    Algorithms: Fears & What can we do to improve algorithms use in society?

    In this episode, we focus on remaining fears and challenges associated with algorithms: bubbles and loops, the alignment problem, and opaqueness. We close the discussion of algorithms by an account what can be done to improve their uses in society.

    34 分鐘

  9. 第 9 集

    Artificial intelligence and democracy (once more)

    The success and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised awareness of the technology’s economic, social, and political consequences. The most recent step in AI development -- the application of large language models (LLMs) and other transformer models to the generation of text, image, video, or audio content -- has come to dominate the public imaginary of AI and has accelerated this discussion. But to assess AI’s societal impact meaningfully, we need to look closely at the workings of the underlying technology and identify the areas of contact within democracy.

    20 分鐘

  10. 第 10 集

    Conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence (once more)

    The successful application of artificial intelligence depends on a set of preconditions.

    23 分鐘

  11. 第 11 集

    Artificial intelligence and self-rule (once more)

    At the individual level, AI impacts the conditions of democratic self-rule and people’s opportunities to exercise it.

    25 分鐘

  12. 第 12 集

    Artificial intelligence and democracy: Equality, elections, and autocratic competition (once more)

    In which we discuss three further areas where artificial intelligence begins to touch on democracy: equality, elections, and the systemic competition between democracy and autocracy.

    33 分鐘
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One of the most important challenges societies face today is how to make sense of digital media. We are deeply uncertain about their impact: mechanisms, conditions, and opportunities of and for their uses remain unclear. The goal the podcast is to help you to make sense of digital media, the changes it brings, and the challenges it presents. This podcast accompanies the lecture series Digital Media in Politics & Society of the Chair for the Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.

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  • 創作者
    Andreas Jungherr
  • 集數
    35
  • 季數
    2
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
  • 版權
    © Andreas Jungherr
  • 節目網站
    Tech and Politics