1st Edition
Governing the Digital Society Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values
264 Pages
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Routledge
Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can digital societies still be effectively governed? This book brings together insights from various... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, About the Authors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Governing the Digital Society, Section 1: Governing Platforms, Decentralized Online Social Networks: Technological and Organizational Choices and Their Public Value Trade-offs, Section 2: Governing Artificial Intelligence, Governing the Global Proliferation of Digital Surveillance Technologies: Lessons from the EU, Section 3: Governing Public Values, The Techno-Politics of Conversational AI's Moral Agency: Examining ChatGPT and ErnieBot as Examples, Concluding comments: An assessment of governing the digital society, Index
Biography
José van Dijck is Distinguished University Professor of Media and Digital Society at Utrecht University since 2017. In 2021, she received the Spinoza Prize, which has made this edited volume possible. Karin van Es is Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies and project lead Humanities at Data School, both at Utrecht University. Anne Helmond is Associate Professor of Media, Data and Society at Utrecht University. She is co-director of the focus area Governing the Digital Society. Fernando van der Vlist is Assistant Professor and program coordinator for the Master’s Cultural Data at the University of Amsterdam.
