TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Carlson, Allen ED - Gallagher, Mary E. ED - Lieberthal, Kenneth ED - Manion, Melanie T1 - Information Overload? Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Chinese Media Content T2 - Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies Y1 - 2010 SN - 9780521155762, 978-0521197830, 978-0521197830 N1 - Also published as: Meiti zai kandai ouzhouren shi dui minzu zhongxin zhuyi de yingxiang (Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans).” In Lisheng Dong et al., eds, 2012. Latest Data, Contributing Factors and Policy Implications, (Beijing: China Social Sciences Academic Press), pp. 257-76. SP - 107 EP - 128 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Dong, Lisheng ED - Wang, Zhengxu ED - Dekker, Henk T1 - Media Influence on Ethnocentrism Towards Europeans T2 - Chinese Views of the EU: Public Support for a Strong Relation Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781136753244 N1 - Chapter 10 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Dong, Lisheng ED - Kriesi, Hanspeter ED - Kübler, Daniel T1 - The Chinese Internet Audience: Who Seeks Political Information Online? T2 - Urban Mobilization and New Media in Contemporary China Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-4724-3097-7 PB - Ashgate CY - Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela A1 - Luo, Ting ED - Delli Carpini, Michael X. T1 - Authoritarian Deliberation 2.0: Lurking and Discussing Politics in Chinese Social Media T2 - Digital Media and Democratic Futures KW - China KW - Digital Governance KW - Democracy Y1 - 2019 SN - 9780812295894 SP - 169 EP - 195 PB - University of Pennsylvania Press CY - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela ED - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - Baums, Theodor T1 - Media or Corporations? Social Media Governance between Public and Commercial Rationales T2 - Advances in Corporate Governance: Comparative Perspectives KW - Social Media Y1 - 2020 SN - 9780198866367 SP - 249 EP - 268 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Trein, Phillipp ED - Klenk, Tanja ED - Nullmeier, Frank ED - Wewer, Göttrik T1 - Koordination und Integration im E-Government T2 - Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung N2 - Der föderale Staatsaufbau und die konsensorientierten Institutionen des deutschen Regierungssystems schaffen einen hohen Koordinationsbedarf und erschweren die Integration neuer Technologien und Politiken in bestehende Strukturen. Dies zeigt sich auch beim E-Government, also der Digitalisierung der Verwaltung. Besonders die föderale Organisation von Verwaltungszuständigkeiten verkompliziert die Koordination beim E-Government, während beispielsweise im Gesundheitsbereich die konsensorientierten Institutionen die Einführung technischer Innovationen verlangsamen. Gewisse Fortschritte Deutschlands sind im internationalen Vergleich gleichwohl zu erkennen. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-658-23669-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_53-1 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bryson, Joanna ED - Dubber, Markus ED - Pasquale, Frank ED - Das, Sunit T1 - The Artificial Intelligence of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: An Introductory Overview for Law and Regulation T2 - The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI N2 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technical term often referring to artifacts used to detect contexts for human actions, or sometimes also for machines able to effect actions in response to detected contexts. Our capacity to build such artifacts has been increasing, and with it the impact they have on our society. This does not alter the fundamental roots or motivations of law, regulation, or diplomacy, which rest on persuading humans to behave in a way that provides sustainable security for humans. It does however alter nearly every other aspect of human social behaviour, including making accountability and responsibility potentially easier to trace. This chapter reviews the nature and implications of AI with particular attention to how they impinge on possible applications to and of law. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9780190067397 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067397.013.1 PB - Oxford University Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bryson, Joanna T1 - The Past Decade and Future of AI’s Impact on Society T2 - Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade N2 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technical term referring to artifacts used to detect contexts or to effect actions in response to detected contexts. Our capacity to build such artifacts has been increasing, and with it the impact they have on our society. This article first documents the social and economic changes brought about by our use of AI, particularly but not exclusively focusing on the decade since the 2007 advent of smartphones, which contribute substantially to “big data” and therefore the efficacy of machine learning. It then projects from this political, economic, and personal challenges confronting humanity in the near future, including policy recommendations. Overall, AI is not as unusual a technology as expected, but this very lack of expected form may have exposed us to a significantly increased urgency concerning familiar challenges. In particular, the identity and autonomy of both individuals and nations is challenged by the increased accessibility of knowledge. Y1 - 2019 SN - 9788417141219 VL - 11 PB - BBVA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Darius, Philipp A1 - Stephany, Fabian ED - Weber (et al.), Ingmar T1 - “Hashjacking” the Debate: Polarisation Strategies of Germany’s Political Far-Right on Twitter T2 - Social Informatics. SocInfo 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11864 N2 - Twitter is a digital forum for political discourse. The emergence of phenomena like fake news and hate speech has shown that political discourse on micro-blogging can become strongly polarised by algorithmic enforcement of selective perception. Recent findings suggest that some political actors might employ strategies to actively facilitate polarisation on Twitter. With a network approach, we examine the case of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and their potential use of a “hashjacking” strategy (The use of someone else’s hashtag in order to promote one’s own social media agenda.). Our findings suggest that right-wing politicians (and their supporters/retweeters) actively and effectively polarise the discourse not just by using their own party hashtags, but also by “hashjacking” the political party hashtags of other established parties. The results underline the necessity to understand the success of right-wing parties, online and in elections, not entirely as a result of external effects (e.g. migration), but as a direct consequence of their digital political communication strategy. KW - Hashtags KW - Networks KW - Political communication strategies Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_21 SN - 978-3-030-34971-4 VL - 11846 SP - 298 EP - 308 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bryson, Joanna A1 - Eisenlauer, Martin T1 - Artificial Intelligence and ethics T2 - Faster than the Future Y1 - 2021 SP - 57 EP - 73 PB - Digital Future Society CY - Barcelona ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dempsey, Mark A1 - McBride, Keegan A1 - Haataja, Meeri A1 - Bryson, Joanna T1 - Transnational Digital Governance and Its Impact on Artificial Intelligence T2 - The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance N2 - The rapid pace of technological advancement and innovation has put existing governance and regulatory mechanisms to the test. There is a clear need for new and innovative regulatory mechanisms that enable governments to successfully manage the integration of digital technologies into our societies, and to ensure that such integration occurs in a sustainable, beneficial, and just manner. Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out as one of the most debated of such innovations. What exactly is it, how should it be built and deployed, how can it be used, and how should it be regulated? Yet across the period of this debate, AI is becoming widely used and addressed within existing, evolving, and bespoke regulatory contexts. The present chapter explores the extant governance of AI and, in particular, what is arguably the most successful AI regulatory approach to date, that of the European Union. The chapter explores core definitional concepts, shared understandings, values, and approaches currently in play. It argues that not only are the Union’s regulations locally effective, but, due to the so-called “Brussels effect,” regulatory initiatives within the European Union also have a much broader global impact. As such, they warrant close consideration. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9780197579329 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197579329.013.16 N1 - A pre-print version is available at: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xu3jr PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kupi, Maximilian A1 - McBride, Keegan ED - Edelmann, ‪Noella T1 - Agile Development for Digital Government Services: Challenges and Success Factors T2 - Electronic Participation ePart 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science N2 - Many governments have problems with developing digital government services in an effective and efficient manner. One proposed solution to improve governmental digital service development is for governments to utilize agile development methods. However, there is currently a lack of understanding on two important and related topics. First, whether or not agile development might help to overcome common failure reasons of digital government projects. Second, what the challenges and success factors of agile digital government service development are. This paper addresses both of these gaps. By gathering insights from six cases where agile methods were used in the development of new digital services, it identifies five core categories of challenges and success factors encountered when utilizing agile development methods for governmental digital service development: organizational, methodological, end-user-related, technological, and regulatory. Furthermore, based on these findings, it makes initial recommendations on when and how to best use agile methods for digital government service development. KW - Agile development KW - Digital government KW - Public administration KW - e-government KW - Public services Y1 - 2021 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-82824-0_11#Abs1 VL - 12849 SP - 139 EP - 150 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bryson, Joanna A1 - Bogani, Ronny ED - Campbell, Aifric T1 - Robot Nannies Will Not Love T2 - The Love Makers N2 - How artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays.A chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It's Christmas Eve, and Scarlett, banker-turned-technologist, is leaving a secret underground lab to catch the last flight that will get her home in time to open presents with her three-year-old son. She offers a lift to a young woman in distress, who shares her intimate life story as they drive to the airport. These revelations will have devastating consequences for both of them. The Love Makers is a philosophical thriller about female friendship, class, motherhood, women, and work--and how artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire. Aifric Campbell combines her novel with essays from leading scientists and commentators who examine what's at stake in our human-machine relationships. What is our future as friends, parents, lovers? Will advances in intelligent machines reverse decades of progress for women? From robot nannies to generative art and our ancient dreams of intelligent machines, The Love Makers blends storytelling with science communication to investigate the challenges and opportunities of emergent technologies and how we want to live. ContributorsRonny Bogani, Joanna J. Bryson, Julie Carpenter, Stephen Cave, Anita Chandran, Peter R. N. Childs, Kate Devlin, Kanta Dihal, Mary Flanagan, Margaret Rhee, Amanda Sharkey, Roberto Trotta, E. R. Truitt, and Richard Watson Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/the-love-makers/ SN - 97819126858442 SP - 249 EP - 258 PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Darius, Philipp A1 - Stephany, Fabian T1 - How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter: ‘Hashjacking’ as a Disinformation Strategy in Times of COVID-19 T2 - Complex Networks & Their Applications X. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1016 N2 - Twitter influences political debates. Phenomena like fake news and hate speech show that political discourses on social platforms can become strongly polarised by algorithmic enforcement of selective perception. Some political actors actively employ strategies to facilitate polarisation on Twitter, as past contributions show, via strategies of ‘hashjacking’(The use of someone else’s hashtag in order to promote one’s own social media agenda.). For the example of COVID-19 related hashtags and their retweet networks, we examine the case of partisan accounts of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and their potential use of ‘hashjacking’ in May 2020. Our findings indicate that polarisation of political party hashtags has not changed significantly in the last two years. We see that right-wing partisans are actively and effectively polarising the discourse by ‘hashjacking’ COVID-19 related hashtags, like #CoronaVirusDE or #FlattenTheCurve. This polarisation strategy is dominated by the activity of a limited set of heavy users. The results underline the necessity to understand the dynamics of discourse polarisation, as an active political communication strategy of the far-right, by only a handful of very active accounts. KW - COVID-19 Hashtags Networks Political communication strategies #CoronaVirusDE #FlattenTheCurve Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-93413-2 SN - 978-3-030-93412-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93413-2_9 SP - 100 EP - 111 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - McBride, Keegan A1 - Kupi, Maximilian A1 - Bryson, Joanna ED - Stephens, Melodena ED - Awamleh, Raed ED - Salem, Fadi T1 - Untangling Agile Government: On the Dual Necessities of Structure and Agility T2 - Agile Government: Emerging Perspectives in Public Management N2 - The governments of today are not able to transform and adapt to changes in the world around them, as demanded by their constituents. The nature of work, value of public goods, and the constant bombardment of crises are making the old bureaucratic structures obsolete. Agile Government is an emerging theme, that of government-wide reinvention for adaptiveness and responsiveness. It places the accountability, delivery, capture, design and creation of public value at the heart of the government. The concept of agile government is confused with terms like Agile Manifesto, agile governance, agility among others, and because of this, needs some unpacking. This book is a deep dive into this topic. It offers insights from the theoretical development of the topic of agile government, some lessons from government practices around the world, and ongoing academic and policy research. The project is spearheaded by the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, which is the first teaching and research institution in the Arab world focusing on public policy and governance. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9789811239694 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811239700_0002 PB - World Scientific Publishing CY - Singapur ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Quintarelli, Stefano A1 - Misuraca, Gianluca A1 - De Biase, Luca A1 - McBride, Keegan T1 - The Information Society and the Future of Digital Well-being T2 - Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report 2022 Y1 - 2022 UR - https://s3.amazonaws.com/happinesscouncil.org/GHC_2022.pdf SN - 978-1-7348080-3-2 SP - 115 EP - 133 PB - Sustainable Development Solutions Network CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - McBride, Keegan A1 - Misnikov, Yuri A1 - Draheim, Dirk ED - Charalabidis, Yannis ED - Flak, Leif Skiftenes ED - Viale Pereira, Gabriela T1 - Discussing the foundations for interpretivist digital government research T2 - Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance and Transformation. Concepts, Approaches and Challenges N2 - As the research domain of digital government continues to develop as an important body of scholarly research, it is important to understand the core theoretical and philosophical basis of the discipline. Yet, in the domain of digital government, such an understanding does not exist. Therefore, there is currently a need for critical discussion about the concrete role of research philosophy in digital government research. This paper makes a first step in driving such a discussion by presenting arguments and discussion on the relevance of an interpretivist research philosophy for the domain of digital government. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of an interpretivist ontology and epistemology for digital government, discusses relevant theories and methods, and concludes with an overview of what is essential for conducting and carrying out interpretivist digital government research. This paper’s contributions represent one of the first concentrated efforts to lay out initial foundations for the role of interpretivism, and research philosophy more generally, for digital government research. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-030-92945-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92945-9_6 SP - 121 EP - 147 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Shah, Syed Attique A1 - Yahia, Sadok Ben A1 - McBride, Keegan A1 - Jamil, Akhtar A1 - Draheim, Dirk T1 - Twitter Streaming Data Analytics for Disaster Alerts T2 - 2021 2nd International Informatics and Software Engineering Conference (IISEC) N2 - In today's world, disasters, both natural and manmade, are becoming increasingly frequent, and new solutions are of a compelling need to provide and disseminate information about these disasters to the public and concerned authorities in an effective and efficient manner. One of the most frequently used ways for information dissemination today is through social media, and when it comes to real-time information, Twitter is often the channel of choice. Thus, this paper discusses how Big Data Analytics (BDA) can take advantage of information streaming from Twitter to generate alerts and provide information in real-time on ongoing disasters. The paper proposes TAGS (Twitter Alert Generation System), a novel solution for collecting and analyzing social media streaming data in realtime and subsequently issue warnings related to ongoing disasters using a combination of Hadoop and Spark frameworks. The paper tests and evaluates the proposed solution using Twitter data from the 2018 earthquake in Palu City, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The proposed architecture was able to issue alert messages on various disaster scenarios and identify critical information that can be utilized for further analysis. Moreover, the performance of the proposed solution is assessed with respect to processing time and throughput that shows reliable system efficiency. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-1-6654-0759-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/IISEC54230.2021.9672370 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Römmele, Andrea A1 - Darius, Philipp ED - Faas, Thorsten ED - Huber, Sascha ED - Krewel, Mona ED - Roßteutscher, Sigrid T1 - KI und datengesteuerte Kampagnen: Eine Diskussion der Rolle generativer KI im politischen Wahlkampf T2 - Informationsflüsse, Wahlen und Demokratie: Festschrift für Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck Y1 - 2023 SN - 9783756008001 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748915553 VL - Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung. Band 35 SP - 199 EP - 211 PB - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stockmann, Daniela A1 - Luo, Ting ED - Lynch, Daniel ED - Rosen, Stanley T1 - Xi Jinping’s Partnership with Technology Companies and Social Media Platforms T2 - Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference N2 - Contrary to conventional wisdom, even Xi Jinping, who is often depicted in the media and pundit world as having centralized control over nearly every dimension of Chinese governance, still must rely on powerful technology corporations to carry out his will in the increasingly important Internet sector. This suggests a model of political control significantly more nuanced than most observers realize. This chapter argues that Xi Jinping does not rule the Internet and more specifically social media via a tight command-and-control structure, which implies that he is the ultimate decision-maker and companies simply implement his policy decisions. Instead, the chapter demonstrates based on process-tracing that China’s governance of the Internet is best understood as a corporate management model, whereby the Chinese state engages in a partnership with technology companies. Xi Jinping assumes a leadership role enforced by state instruments of control and cooptation strategies. At the same time, the state remains dependent on companies due to their informational, organizational, and institutional resources. KW - China Y1 - 2024 SN - 9781032191522 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257943-5 PB - Routledge CY - London ET - 2 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Darius, Philipp A1 - Urquhart, Michael ED - Ginsborg, Lisa ED - Gori, Paula T1 - Informational Power and Disinformation: Actors, Messages, Incentives, and Techniques of Disinformation Campaigns T2 - Disinformation N2 - Disinformation has become a pivotal concern for policymakers globally. While the issue has been a longstanding issue for communication and foreign affairs scholars and practitioners, recent years have seen an escalation in its severity driven by geopolitical conflicts like the Ukraine war or the Israel-Gaza conflict. These conflicts, coupled with international tensions, are exacerbated by state-led foreign interference and information manipulation intersecting with domestic partisan disinformation campaigns. Democracies with open media systems are particularly exposed to disinformation campaigns by other actors. In this article, we understand disinformation campaigns as a political instrument of increasing the power of interpretation among target groups. These may be populations of foreign states but also domestic citizens that are targeted with disinformation by partisan groups or autocratic governments. To better assess the aim of disinformation campaigns, we propose to focus on informational power as a mediator underpinning Michael Mann’s IEMP model based on ideological, economic, military, and political power. Working from this theoretical framework, we discuss the actors, messages, incentives, and techniques and tactics of disinformation campaigns from a European perspective. KW - Political communication KW - Information Ethics Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-00480-2_11 SP - 187 EP - 211 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -