Tech and Politics

Andreas Jungherr
One of the most important challenges societies face today is how to make sense of digital media. We are deeply uncertain about their impact: mechanisms, conditions, and opportunities of and for their uses remain unclear. The goal the podcast is to help you to make sense of digital media, the changes it brings, and the challenges it presents. This podcast accompanies the lecture series Digital Media in Politics & Society of the Chair for the Governance of Complex and Innovative Technological Systems at the University of Bamberg.

Data

2023-11-13 23 min Season 2 Episode 1

Data are crucial for the discussion of politics and digital media. Understanding the core concepts and issues arising from the quantification of social and political life and the resulting data is important for engaging in many of the subsequent controversies of the uses of digital media in politics.

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Measurement

Season 2 Episode 2

2023-11-14 18 min

Quantification makes some things visible, while hiding others. To better understand this process, we have to examine how things become numbers, we have to ex...

Observing and shaping the world with data

Season 2 Episode 3

2023-11-15 23 min

Data provide a reduced representation of the world and promise to uncover hidden patterns and connections between entities that remain invisible in their ful...

Privacy

Season 2 Episode 4

2023-11-16 22 min

This episode sketches the tensions that arise from the drive to generate data-enabled insights and people's expectations and rights to privacy.