Navigating Platforms, AI, and Public Values
This volume, “Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values,” delves into the complexities of governing digital realms dominated by platforms and AI. It offers interdisciplinary insights and empirical studies on embedding public values in algorithmic systems, strengthening public institutions, and balancing governance principles in data-driven democracies. The book is a product of Utrecht University’s Governing the Digital Society focus area, supported by a Spinoza grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Points clés
- The book “Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values” is edited by José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and Fernando van der Vlist.
- The volume is a result of the Utrecht University focus area Governing the Digital Society (GDS).
- The publication is made possible by a Spinoza grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), awarded in 2021 to José van Dijck.
- The Digital Studies book series, which includes this volume, is edited by Tobias Blanke, Liliana Bounegru, Carolin Gerlitz, Jonathan Gray, Sabine Niederer, and Richard Rogers.
- Section 1, “Governing Platforms,” includes chapters on decentralized online social networks by Mathilde Sanders and José van Dijck, platform cooperatives by Gabriël van Rosmalen, content moderation by Cedric Waterschoot, and trusted flaggers in the Netherlands by Jacob van de Kerkhof.
- Section 2, “Governing Artificial Intelligence,” features contributions on digital surveillance technologies by Machiko Kanetake, the governance of generative AI by Fabian Ferrari, and regulating AI in the EU by Lisanne Hummel.
- Section 3, “Governing Public Values,” explores topics such as the techno-politics of conversational AI’s moral agency by Jing Zeng and Karin van Es, inclusion in smart cities by Michiel de Lange, Erna Ruijer, and Krisztina Varró, motherhood in the datafied welfare state by Gerwin van Schie, Laura Candidatu, and Diletta Huyskes, and fostering autonomy in the digital classroom by Niels Kerssens and Karin van Es.
- The book includes interviews with experts such as Catalina Goanta, Natali Helberger, and Janneke Gerards.
- Albert Meijer provides concluding comments, offering an assessment of governing the digital society from a public governance perspective.
- The book is published by Amsterdam University Press and is available under a Creative Commons License CC-BY NC ND.
À retenir
So, apparently, governing our increasingly digital lives is a bit more complicated than just yelling at your smart speaker. This book suggests we actually need to think about things like public values and how those pesky algorithms are making decisions for us. Who knew? It seems we can’t just let Big Tech run the show; we might need to, you know, govern them. What a novel concept!
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