An analysis of digital exclusion risks around the transitions and ruptures that shape the life courses.
This special issue is examining the different layers of digital inclusion and data literacy by drawing on research, policy, and practice developments around literacies in various regions and contexts. It highlights the politics around them so as to propose policies that are needed to include more people in datafied societies, and what types of literacies they should learn.
Introduction: transparency in AI Transparency is indeed a multifaceted concept used by various disciplines (Margetts, 2011; Hood, 2006). Recently, it has gone through a resurgence with regards to contemporary discourses around artificial intelligence (AI). For example, the ethical guidelines published by the EU Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI (AI HLEG) in April 2019 states transparency as one of seven key requirements for the realisation of ‘trustworthy AI’, which also has made its clear mark in the Commission’s white paper on AI, published in February 2020. In fact, “transparency” is the single most common, and one of the key five principles emphasised in the vast number – a …
Targeted political advertising can potentially exclude voter segments from important political information, and undermine the democratic process
This paper analyses the controversial trial run of facial-recognition software at Berlin-Südkreuz, drawing on Science and Technology Studies.
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A young entrepreneur finds herself battling uphill against GDPR enforcement organisations in an effort to bring her AI personal assistant to the market. Can her technological wits outwin the legal shortcuts these organisations have in place?
Once upon a time, a machine began telling us the stories of our lives… and humanity lived happily ever after.
In a future where digital touch has become a normal part of society, who has access to my body and my data?
Who will own the smart things smart things create?