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Should big data determine who gets pulled over?

Column

Paul Mutsaers

12/09/2017

4 minutes to read

Predictive policing is often claimed to be a technical matter superior to traditional policing, with all its human flaws. I argue for a cultural approach to predictive policing, centered on the cultural shaping of police technologies.

On its 28th birthday, how democratic is the web?

Column

Piia Varis

14/03/2017

5 minutes to read

People can contribute to making the web more democratic, but for that they need platform literacy

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)

Review

Piia Varis

09/01/2017

4 minutes to read

Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) by Cathy O'Neil makes a very compelling case for people to start asking more questions and demand more transparency regarding algorithmic models that are being used to regulate so many aspects of their lives.

Attention Please?

Article

Inge van de Ven

28/11/2016

10 minutes to read

On the false dichotomy between strategies of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ reading. 'We should develop methods that oscillate between both approaches,' says Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University)