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The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) examines media change and the related structural shifts in public communication.
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The Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) is engaged in numerous international and national research networks in research and practice.
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STEAM – The Socio-Technical Ecosystem Architecture Method
The Value of News: The History of the German Press Agency (dpa)
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Wenn KI, dann feministisch. Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Aktivismus
This anthology opens up feminist perspectives on the topic of artificial intelligence. It was published by netzforma*, an association for feminist net politics. Katharina Mosene and Valerie Rhein were members of the editorial team.
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Sex robotics, drone operations and voice assistants - all this and much more is covered by the buzzwords artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms. But what exactly do AI and algorithms encompass and how diverse are the perspectives on them? AI - a turnaround in the human-machine relationship? A myth? A utopia? The future scenarios fluctuate between threat and promise. One thing is clear: technology in general and algorithmic processes in particular are inconceivable without references to power and domination. For this very reason, these systems must constantly be critically examined, evaluated and redeveloped against the backdrop of feminist perspectives and values. Feminist perspectives and intersectional approaches are hardly taken into account, if at all, and so traditionally patriarchal views are reproduced and reinforced by the use of AI. Is it enough to make AI more equitable? If so, according to whose criteria? How does surveillance change in the course of automated decision-making processes? Is the demand for transparency the solution or does it distract from the necessary demands? Who defines this so-called AI, the word between the quotation marks? How can the discourse on AI be inclusive? This publication accompanies current developments in an intersectional feminist way. The aim is to develop new perspectives on artificial intelligence and algorithms in the face of intensifying technical and socio-political developments. The basic mathematical formula of algorithms must be 'If AI, then feminist'.
Wenn KI, dann feministisch — Impulse aus Wissenschaft und Aktivismus [If AI, then Feminist - Impulses from Science and Activism]. Ed. by netzforma* e.V. Berlin 2020
Katharina Mosene, M. A. • Valerie Rhein
technological change • algorithms • artificial intelligence • Automated Decision Making Systems • feminist internet policy • Feminism
Related projects and publications
New Cooperation Project
Coding Public Value
How can we develop software that is not only oriented towards business models, but also towards the common good, user interests, and media regulation? Coding Public Value (CPV) translates questions on media law, user orientation, and the integration of political and social stakeholders into approach...
How the Internet Is Changing Society
The Peoples' Internet
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
Interdisciplinary VolkswagenStiftung Project
Opportunities and Limitations of ADM Systems
The interdisciplinary basic research project examines the opportunities and limitations of algorithmic decision making systems by using the example of their use in criminal justice systems.
White Paper for Central German Broadcasting
Algorithmic Recommendations
To what extent can algorithmic recommendation systems be part of the own journalistic activity of public service media providers and take the side of (or take the place of) journalistic selection and compilation of information? In a White Paper for the MDR (Central German Broadcasting), the main cha...
Report for the German Bundestag
Algorithms and Opinion Formation
The Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) commissioned the Hans-Bredow-Institut with a report on the topic of "Algorithms in Digital Media and Their Influence on Individual Opinion Formation of Users".
Handbook Computational Social Science
From Frequency Counts to Contextualized Word Embeddings: The Saussurean Turn in Automatic Content Analysis
Dr. Gregor Wiedemann and Cornelia Fedtke illustrate in their contribution to the "Handbook of Computational Social Science" the semantic shift of the term "gold pieces" in the context of hate speech in the German Facebook discourse. The Handbook is published by Routledge a...
Algorithmische Selektion und Privatheit. Aufmerksamkeitssteuerung durch Social Media-Plattformen als Autonomieeingriff?
In this chapter, Stephan Dreyer und Amélie Heldt focus on privacy and the general right of personality in relation to algorithmic selection procedures. They point out where gaps exist and how these could be closed. Their chapter as well as the anthology have been published in the Nomos eLibra...
Humans and Technology
10 Thesen zu Zukunftsthemen der Technikwissenschaften für eine nachhaltige Technologieentwicklung mit dem Menschen im Mittelpunkt
Matthias C. Kettemann, Martin Fertmann, Vincent Hofmann and Mesut Bayraktar, together with Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld, Regina Schönherr and Anna Engelhardt, have written 10 theses on people and sustainable technology development. Available at Junge Forum: Technikwissenschaften [Young Forum: Sci...
Project Findings Available for Download
Rechtliche Vorgaben für die Gestaltung von Software öffentlich-rechtlicher Medienplattformen
This working paper presents the current legal situation for software-based offerings by public service media providers in Germany. It identifies concrete legal requirements for software design. Rhein, Valerie; Dreyer, Stephan; Schulz, Wolfgang (2021): Rechtliche Vorgaben für die Gestaltung von...
Online Learning Space
Why, AI? – A New Online Learning Space, Unraveling Myths about Automation, Algorithms, Society and Ourselves
Matthias C. Kettemann and Daniela Dicks have set up an online learning space to unravel myths surrounding artificial intelligence. It is designed as a free educational resource, all materials are provided with a CC-BY licence. This space is intended to address questions such as "How can AI be u...
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LEIBNIZ-INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA RESEARCH | HANS-BREDOW-INSTITUT
The research perspective of the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut focuses on media transformation and related structural changes of public communication. With its cross-medial, interdisciplinary and independent research, it combines basic research and transfer research, and thus, generates knowledge on issues relevant for politics, commerce and civil society.
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