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Algorithmic Governmentality, Digital Sovereignty, and Agency Affordances — Extending the Possible Fields of Action Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In today’s socio-technical constellations, our daily online and offline lives are increasingly governed by what can be termed algorithmic governmentality. Understood as the governing of the social based on the algorithmic processing of big data, algorithmic governmentality significantly limits human agency and individuals’ abilities to control data inputs and algorithmic outputs. An antidote and a solution to governance of this kind require ...
Data Protection Risks in Transitional Times: The Case of European Retail Banks Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The banking sector has a highly developed procedural approach to risk. Faced with legal requirements to protect personal data from risks, it may seem natural to banks to ‘translate’ existing risk management procedures to these new types of risks. We present findings of an ethnographic study into practices of personal data protection in European retail banks, with a focus on their conceptualization of data protection risks. The study was mostly ...
I Am Dissolving into Categories and Labels – Agency Affordances for Embedding and Practicing Digital Sovereignty Vrije Universiteit Brussel
While the notion of digital sovereignty is loaded with a multitude of meanings referring to various actors, values and contexts, this paper is interested in how to actualize individual digital sovereignty. We do so by introducing the concept of agency affordances, which we see as a precondition for achieving digital sovereignty. We understand this notion as the ability to exercise power to, as autonomy and agency for (digital) self-sovereignty, ...
Discursieve psychologie Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In dit hoofdstuk verkennen we wat de discusieve psychologie kan bijdragen aan de analyse van communicatie-inhouden. Deze benadering biedt een relevant perspectief dat (onder meer) gebruikt kan worden om een breed
scala aan gemedieerde communicatie en interactie te analyseren. Denk bij- voorbeeld aan krantenartikels, discussieprogramma’s op radio of televisie, maar ook onlinemediateksten zoals X-data (voorheen Twitter), blogposts, ...
scala aan gemedieerde communicatie en interactie te analyseren. Denk bij- voorbeeld aan krantenartikels, discussieprogramma’s op radio of televisie, maar ook onlinemediateksten zoals X-data (voorheen Twitter), blogposts, ...
Taxonomy of Social Network Platform Affordances for Group Interactions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this paper we investigate the mutual shaping between social network platforms and social interactions by developing a taxonomy of relevant affordances. More broadly, this taxonomy will eventually serve to answer the question: which platform affordances influence norm building behaviour in groups? The relevant affordances we identified are ‘network interactions’, ‘interventions’, ‘ephemerality’ and ‘visibility’. These affordances are ...
A comprehensive perspective on data protection practices in organizations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The aim of this chapter is to take readers beyond the prescriptions of the law to present them with a practical perspective on what happens when organizations try to protect personal data. This is based on the acknowledgement that different sectors of society will have different concerns when it comes to the protection of personal data and privacy. The various conceptions of privacy connect a wide variety of academic disciplines, from ...
The right to the city and data protection for developing citizen-centric digital cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Smart city urban development seems inevitable for the future of our cities, but who should decide what that future should be like and whose interest’s smart urbanism serves? The ‘Right to the City’ calls for citizens as ‘users’ of cities to be integral parts to the socio-technological processes that shape urban space. This article explores how citizens can participate meaningfully, and whether data protection rights can be instrumental to this ...
Practical AI Transparency —Revealing Datafication and Algorithmic Identities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
How does one do research on algorithms and their outputs when confronted with the inherent algorithmic opacity and black box-ness as well as with the limitations of API-based research and the data access gaps imposed by platforms’ gate-keeping practices? This article outlines the methodological steps we undertook to manoeuvre around theabove-mentioned obstacles. It is a “byproduct” of our investigation into datafication and the way how ...
Performing smart cities research based on existing datasets: a methodology framework Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Our understanding of how a city works is changing as more and more activities and interactions of citizens with and within the city are being tracked. It is estimated that by 2020, 1.7MB of data will be created every second for each person [1]. These data are created by different actors, including businesses that collect information to fuel their services. Cities can enrich the understanding of their citizen dynamics and improve data-driven ...