News and Research articles on ElectionsHow will generative AI affect elections? On the evening of the European Parliament elections, the alarms are sounding.
Discussing three factors that characterise the activities of political campaigners, this article demonstrates variations in who is using data in campaigns, what the sources of campaign data are, and how data informs communication.
This paper discusses how online political micro-targeting is regulated in Europe, from the perspective of data protection law, freedom of expression, and political advertising rules.
Will the same cross-device technologies that track our journeys through the commercial marketplace now follow us into the polling booth?
Focusing on whether data-intensive technologies used in political campaigning are accurate and effective misses the point about their larger role in politics. This piece briefly addresses the popular question of “Does it work?” and suggests a series of questions and provocations that aim to more holistically capture the extent of tech-led disruption in a time of creeping voter surveillance.
Stefania Milan and Claudio Agosti present the Algorithms Exposed (ALEX) project as well as the browser extension fbtrex.
What if presidents and policies could be bought and sold online? Social media and advertising technology are making that a reality.
This essay argues that we have anxieties about micro-targeting because we have anxieties about democracy itself.