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SUMMARY:Lab Annual Meeting 2020
DESCRIPTION:As there are many changes happening in the Lab\, we’ve decided to the annual meeting a little earlier this year to make sure all of the members are informed about what is going and are able to shape the future of the lab.\n\nThe next Lab annual meeting will take place Monday 9 March 2020 at 13:00 at WU Wien\, Welthandelsplatz 1\, 1020 Wien in room D2.2.094. \n 
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/lab-annual-meeting-2020/
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SUMMARY:The Austrian Roadmap for Personal Data in Digital Economy | MyDataAustriaMeetup#6
DESCRIPTION:Since last year\, MyData Austria has been developing a “Human-centric Roadmap for Digital Economy” in collaboration with the Sustainable Computing Lab\, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)\, the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and OwnYourData. This “European/Austrian Perspective” on “Personal Data on the Internet” has been constructed as part of our FFG/BMVIT funded project EXPEDiTE (expedite-project.eu). The roadmap is based on extensive literature reviews\, expert interviews\, focus group studies\, and surveys. Before finalising the roadmap\, we’d like to have your feedback and input in this meetup. \nAgenda: \n* Soheil Human\, the lead author of the roadmap (who was supported by an interdisciplinary team of co-authors and collaborators from different Austrian institutions) presents the main aspects of the roadmap. \n* We then will get your feedback on the roadmap and discuss how it can better contribute to the co-production of our future sustainable digital economies. \n* We’d also like to discuss the next step to be taken by MyData Austria. \nLink: https://www.meetup.com/MyData-Austria/events/268165744/\nTime: Tuesday\, March 10\, 2020\, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM\nLocation: WU Executive Academy (Welthandelspl. 1\, 1020 Wien) room EA.6.026\nsee: https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=EA.6.026\n\nNote: There will be another core-team meeting before the meetup (from 4-6pm at WU Wien).
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/the-austrian-roadmap-for-personal-data-in-digital-economy-mydataaustriameetup6/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Florian Saurwein & Charlotte Spencer-Smith: Automated trouble: The role of algorithmic selection in the emergence of harms on social media
DESCRIPTION:Algorithms have taken a central role in the automation of an increasing range of tasks in economy and society and their workings are keenly felt in everyday life on social media platforms. Algorithms filter and rank content on feeds and in search results\, enforce content moderation rules\, advertising policies and community standards\, and enable personalized and targeted advertising. However\, they also play a role in promoting a range of online harms to the individual\, society and democracy\, including the amplification of disinformation and hate speech\, the development of filter bubbles\, lack of transparency in online political microtargeting\, and restrictions on free speech through automated deletion of posts by content moderation algorithms. \nIn this talk\, Florian Saurwein and Charlotte Spencer-Smith explore the link between algorithms and harms on major social media platforms Facebook\, Twitter and YouTube. They examine how algorithmic selection contributes to harms within social media environments and develop a taxonomy of algorithmic risk. Subsequently\, they identify measures of self-regulation taken by social media platforms to manage these risks\, to see which tools are available for combating problems\, and for which kinds of risks they are used. Results of the combined risk—regulation analysis allow for reflections on the governance implications of the different roles that algorithms play in risks on social media. While algorithmic errors may be fixed by social media companies themselves\, the risks of growing power asymmetries call for external control and regulation. The results also point to implications for accountability\, in particular that future governance arrangements should recognise algorithmic risk as emerging from the interplay of multiple actors who may be called to account. \nThe talk is based on results of the research project “The automation of the social: Algorithmic selection on social online networks” which is funded by the Vienna Anniversary Fund for the Austrian Academy of Sciences. \n  \nBios \nFlorian Saurwein is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt\, were he established the research area “Triple A: Automation\, Algorithms & Accountability” that explores the social implications of the growing influence of algorithms. \nCharlotte Spencer-Smith is a Prae Doc at the Center for Information and Communication Technologies & Society in Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Previously\, she worked as a Project Assistant in the research area “Triple A: Automation\, Algorithms & Accountability” at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt.
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/florian-saurwein-tbc/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Richard Novak: Awareness of Big Data Issues
DESCRIPTION:Big Data is a relatively new term that has so far not been viewed through the lens of applied ethics. \nMy focus in this paper is on the awareness of the conflicts arising between Big Data phenomenon and its issues and the relevant ethical principles. \nFirstly\, I start with the research of other authors and an overview of ethics and the Digital Divide that are generally accepted. Secondly\, I continue with the description of data sources and Big Data use cases from the telecommunication industry\, demonstrating what is currently feasible\, that I will generalize and\, furthermore\, suggest a comprehensive list of twelve Big Data issues such as Privacy Intrusion\, New Barriers\, Business Advantage\, Power of All data\, New Big Brother effect\, Missing Transparency\, Confusion\, Social Pressure\, Belief in Legislation\, End of Theory\, Data Religion and Unawareness of our Data. Thirdly\, I describe the existing regulatory framework of the Big Data area with some suggestions for improvement and I also verify the awareness of the suggested twelve Big Data issues by launching an international survey. Finally\, I discuss and conclude the paper results. \nThe survey (N=733) of university students\, IT professionals and seniors from EU countries\, mainly Czechia and Slovakia concluded that Big Data issues are grouped into three different and consistent clusters: hot\, cold and warm (suggested by the Ward method that uses the Euclid distance between the mean and standard deviation). \nI found\, using MANOVA Pillai’s statistical test\, that clusters are significantly dependent on demography (IT Skills\, Occupation and Sex). Warm clusters show interesting dependencies on the demographic category\, such as the social pressure perceived important by pensioners and women compared to the underestimated importance reported by men and IT Professionals. The conclusion of the paper is that the awareness of Big Data issues can be grouped into three consistent clusters that depend on a few demographic variables. I also conclude that there is a need for regulation frameworks to move past Data Ethic by Default (Law) to a priori Data Ethics by Design approach. \nKeywords: awareness\, big data issues\, cluster analysis\, data ethics by design\, demography\, digital divide\, manova
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/richard-novak/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Joint Workshop: New Challenges in Law and Technology
DESCRIPTION:This joint workshop on New Challenges in Law and Technology between the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Wien. \nThe workshop will take place on 25 March 2020 from 15:00 to 17:30 at WU. The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas between both research groups and discuss potential future research projects. \nPresentation topics tbc
URL:https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/event/joint-workshop-new-challenges-in-law-and-technology-2/
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