scholarly journals Algorithmic accountability

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2128) ◽  
pp. 20170362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hetan Shah
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Ethics Training ◽  
The Public ◽  
Algorithmic Accountability ◽  
Licence To Operate ◽  
The Public Sphere

There is enormous opportunity for positive social impact from the rise of algorithms and machine learning. But this requires a licence to operate from the public, based on trustworthiness. There are a range of concerns relating to how algorithms might be held to account in areas affecting the public sphere. This paper outlines a number of approaches including greater transparency, monitoring of outcomes and improved governance. It makes a case that public sector bodies that hold datasets should be more confident in negotiating terms with the private sector. It also argues that all regulators (not just data regulators) need to wake up to the challenges posed by changing technology. Other improvements include diversity of the workforce, ethics training, codes of conduct for data scientists, and new deliberative bodies. Even if these narrower issues are solved, the paper poses some wider concerns including data monopolies, the challenge to democracy, public participation and maintaining the public interest.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘The growing ubiquity of algorithms in society: implications, impacts and innovations’.

scholarly journals The analysis of the hashtag #Jokowi404NotFound on Twitter in protesting mural removal in the public sphere

INFORMASI ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Luky Fitriani ◽  
Pawito Pawito ◽  
Prahastiwi Utari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere

The removal of mural looking like President Joko Widodo's face with the words 404 Not Found triggered a wide range of reactions from the public, including some on Twitter, who saw the action as an anti-critical form of government. As a result, the hashtag #Jokowi404notfound became a popular topic and was used over 11,000 times on August 14, 2021. The purpose of this study is to look at how people use the hashtag #Jokowi404notfound on Twitter to protest the removal of murals. In August 2021, this study takes a qualitative approach, collecting data in the form of observation of media texts on Twitter's public timeline. According to the findings of this study, the hashtag #Jokowi404notfound was used to protest the government's anti-critical decision to remove murals as a form of suppression of individual freedom. When the public interest is at stake and the movement is mobilized by Twitter activists with large social media followings, the hashtag activism movement has the potential to drive and influence government policy. Messages to the government are also conveyed using various styles of language.

Indigenous Museum Curatorship in the United States and Canada: Roles and Responsibilities

Libri ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Iulian Vamanu
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
The Public Sphere

AbstractIndigenous curatorship has become an increasingly visible presence in the public sphere as part of the long process of North American Native people’s efforts to regain control over the representations and uses of their cultures in Western societies. Even though scholars consider this profession fundamental to Native American struggles for sovereignty, many do not have a clear understanding of what it involves. In the context of scarce scholarship on Indigenous curatorship, this qualitative study relies on interview and textual data to articulate Indigenous curators’ understandings of their work of preserving and promoting Indigenous knowledge. It emphasizes the uniqueness of Indigenous curatorship by mapping out this profession’s specific roles and responsibilities within the broader arena of museum curatorship. The study identifies two main directions Indigenous curators take in their work, namely activism and engagement of the public. Activism consists in Indigenous curators’ efforts to critique oppressive knowledge structures, raise awareness of controversial topics of public interest related to Indigeneity, and support Native artists and tribal communities. Engagement of the public refers to Indigenous curators’ strategies of involving source communities in the design of exhibits and diverse audiences in the interpretation of exhibitions.

The Fall of the Public and the Moral Contestation in the Journalistic Culture of Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozan Aşık
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
State Pressure ◽  
Ruling Party

The deepening social polarization and increasing state pressure in Turkey undermines the participation of journalists as the custodians of public interest in the public sphere based on the principle of common good. Using the data of my ethnographic fieldwork in newsrooms, I explore the features of legitimate journalistic activity without normative connection to the public. The Islamic-based ruling party (AKP) attempts to transform the public into its own intimate, family-like sphere. Journalists are compelled to either totally merge with the AKP-friendly family that dominates the public, or retreat to the privacy of the newsroom as an act of resistance and withdraw from contact with the ‘other’ journalistic community. Examining this “otherization” and isolation is crucial to understanding the ways in which the pursuit of professional ethics is replaced by self-centered norm-defining practices articulated in the rhetoric of intimacy rather than of the debate-oriented public sphere of journalists.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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