Introduction The digitisation of our societies comes along with a number of challenges and opportunities - the dimension of which are far from being assessed, not to say understood. While the internet allowing easy access of everybody to the general political discourse was for some time understood as a great opportunity for strengthening democracy
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Big data: a game changer for social scientists
In a talk within the series “Big Data: Big power shifts?” held on 5 November 2015 in Berlin, sociologist Mike Savage argued that the most successful and popular social scientists primarily build up their work on data analysis.
Privacy gets another push from recent surveillance revelations, but who shall provide it? A workshop on data protection in cloud computing prior to the upcoming meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force tries to get an answer from politicians and techies.