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Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
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ISSN 2748-5625 · Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society · 105 artikel di indeks
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Factors That Matter
Moderating online content is essential to ensure that digital communication is safe and enjoyable. Although automation is necessary to manage the substantial volume of content on large digital platforms, human expertise is deemed indispensable in decision-making processes, as well as in the design…
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Digitalization and New Situations of Dependency
This article argues that the political effects of digitalization in peripheral societies emerge from the relationship between platform properties and the social structures that receive them. It develops this claim by recovering Cardoso and Faletto’s concept of situations of dependency, which treats…
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Tokenization Beyond the Market
The paper asks how monetary design can be grounded in social relations, territorial values, and collective objectives that precede a monetary architecture and are expected to be supported by it. While the analytical framework applies broadly to monetary experiments, the paper focuses on civic token…
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Infrastructures of Digital Democracy
This article examines the often-overlooked server-side infrastructures that sustain participatory platforms in digital democracy. Based on 40 interviews with a diverse population of digital participation professionals across four continents, the article develops a typology of three infrastructural…
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AI-Enhanced Journalism
Journalism has two main functions in democracy: news coverage and the formation of public opinion. This essay develops a theoretical framework for the role of journalism as an epistemic and evaluative intermediary. This framework can be used to discuss the two-part question: how can AI improve the…
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Navigating Negativity
Negativity and deception are widely recognized as barriers to rational and informative discourse on social media, yet their impact on local public spheres is understudied. This study addresses this gap through digital ethnographic research in four Hungarian municipalities of diverse sizes and…
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Historical Time Machines Revisited
Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used in history education to enable immersive engagement with the past. Although these applications may stimulate interest and emotional involvement, concerns have been raised about their potential to hinder critical reflection and foster uncritical acceptance…
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The Controversial Relationship Between Adolescents' Media Use and School Performance
In a deep mediatized society, adolescents' media use and its impact on school performance are hotly debated. As a result, educational policy and practice place strong demands for em-pirical evidence to inform decisions on issues such as smartphone bans at schools or social media restrictions for…
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The Authenticity Challenge
This essay examines how generative AI is reshaping journalism through both efficiency gains and deep epistemic risks, a dynamic we refer to as the “authenticity challenge.” Generative AI now supports news gathering and production through data analysis, trend detection, idea generation…
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Challenging the Myth of AI Autonomy
A common misconception is that artificial intelligence (AI) functions magically, without human intervention. In reality, AI operates within a socio-technical system reliant on vast amounts of human labor throughout its lifecycle. AI depends on two forms of human labor: “algorithmic worker” (the…
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Searching for Structure
This article provides a comprehensive examination of feminist design frameworks within the field of human–computer interaction (HCI). Despite significant scholarly contributions since the 1980s aimed at integrating gender considerations into HCI design processes, critiques have consistently…
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Untangling the Future of Diamond Access
This paper examines the future of Diamond Open Access as a non-commercial, community-driven model for scholarly publishing that challenges the growing marketization of research dissemination. Drawing on recent initiatives, such as DIAMAS, Craft-OA, the Global Diamond Summits, and ALMASI, it…
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Coworking Spaces and Alienation
This article investigates coworking spaces as ambivalent infrastructures within the landscape of digital capitalism. Through a qualitative case study of Fabbriche Binarie and Sugar Paper in Modena, Italy, it explores how these spaces mediate experiences of alienation, spatial disconnection, and…
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Will News Find Them With Generative AI?
Three key affordances of generative AI (GenAI), namely, hyper-personalization, intuitive interaction, and universality, provide the technology with the potential to disrupt current news consumption practices. While opportunities include reducing intentional news avoidance, risks involve the…
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Between Policy and Market: The Role of China’s Alliance of Industrial Internet in Industrial Digitalization
Existing research on the digital transformation of production in China has largely examined the roles of government, market, and industry associations in isolation, failing to integrate them into a unified analytical framework. This study addresses this gap by investigating how the Chinese state…
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The Regulatory Implications of Subcontracting Practices in Germany’s Location-Based Platforms
Subcontracting is becoming a dominant business model in Europe’s platform economy, enabling digital labor platforms to externalize employer responsibilities while retaining control over work through algorithmic management practices. However, it is only marginally addressed by the European Union’s…
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Generative AI and Changes to Knowledge Work
The application of generative AI (GenAI) tools has led to widespread speculation about the implications of technological change for the future of knowledge work. This article provides insights on how the use of GenAI affects work practices in the fields of IT programming, science and coaching based…
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The Ideal Worker Revisited
This paper explores technostress in office work with a focus on gender dynamics. Employing an exploratory study design and focus group discussions, the research reveals that digitalization within organizations can lead to technostress through the emergence of techno-overload, techno-invasion, and…
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Disinformation Resilience in Backsliding Democracies
Societies’ resilience to disinformation is often linked to democratic backsliding, but the relationships between these concepts remain poorly understood. To measure structural resilience to disinformation, we expand the framework developed for consolidated Western democracies by Humprecht et al…
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Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs
The proliferation of digital platforms has given rise to manipulative design practices known as “dark patterns,” which exploit users’ vulnerabilities to influence behavior, leading them to make decisions against their own interests. Among these, addictive designs have emerged as a particularly…