Panel discussion “Social Media: Wie politische Kommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter funktioniert”

September 12, 2019

We’re excited to participate in the following event (German only):

Social Media

Wie politische Kommunikation im digitalen Zeitalter funktioniert

Technologie hat die politische Kommunikation umgekrempelt: Social Media sind zu einem wichtigen Multiplikator geworden, Entscheidungen werden aufgrund der Datenlage getroffen und Zielgruppen lassen sich gezielt ansteuern.

Wie funktioniert politische Kommunikation heutzutage? Welche Mechanismen führen zum Erfolg? Sind Big Data und Künstliche Intelligenz inzwischen unverzichtbar? Welche Kanäle sind relevant, welche digitalen Strategien erfolgreich? Und wie groß ist der Einfluss von Facebook, Twitter und Co. auf die öffentliche Meinung tatsächlich?

Darüber diskutieren Expertinnen und Experten am 19. September im Haus der Musik. Die Keynote hält Yussi Pick (Pick & Barth Digital Strategies GmbH). Mit ihm diskutieren im Anschluss dazu Florian Cech (TU Wien), Lena Doppel-Prix (Digitalstrategin), Klemens Ganner (APA-DeFacto), Nina Hoppe (HOPPE – Strategia. Politica. Media.) und Dieter Zirnig (neuwal).

 

Details and sign-up available at https://eventmaker.at/apa/social_media/.

Call for Case Studies @ C&T 2019

February 5, 2019

3-7 June 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
https://2019.comtech.community/casestudies.html

The International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T) is the premier international forum on the complex connections between communities – both physical and virtual – and information and communication technologies. The theme of C&T 2019 is “Transforming Communities”, embracing a dynamic view of communities and paying particular attention to the roles of technologies in the making, un-making, and re-making of communities (see the Call for Papers for more).

C&T 2019, for the first time, will host two separate Case Studies tracks: […]

Call for Papers: ECIS 2019 Workshop – Engineering Accountable Information Systems

February 5, 2019

The function of information systems in society is increasingly in focus of information systems research. One outstanding challenge is how to build information systems which promote accountability, as part of a wider debate on fairness, accountability, and transparency principles (e.g., ACM FAT*). This need for accountability must be reflected on all layers of systems engineering, ranging from process analysis to concrete technical components and primitives employed during implementation.

Based on our existing research we believe that three specific areas of information systems research are most relevant in this context: user cognition and human behaviour in relation to the design of interfaces; automated decision-making systems and decision-support systems; critical business processes with a particular need for accountability. In all these and further areas, accountability in complex information systems needs to be addressed through technical mechanisms. Existing high-level considerations on accountability in information systems notwithstanding, however, the concrete engineering and implementation of such mechanisms has so far received only limited attention. Similarly, the challenges arising during such transformations of abstract accountability concepts into concrete technologies as well as the critical evaluation of respective implementations are only rarely covered by existing research.

We see this workshop as an opportunity to close these gaps through engaging with the existing debate on accountability while integrating key knowledge from the information systems community. Importantly, our approach to accountable systems is not just focused on high level norms of system development, but indispensably also incorporates practical questions of engineering and designing actual systems. We therefore encourage submissions from the above-mentioned and other areas of accountability engineering as long as they sufficiently incorporate questions of concrete systems engineering and implementation. […]