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Back to the bad old days, as civil service infighting threatens UK’s only hope for digital government
The Government Digital Service (GDS) isn’t perfect, but to erase the progress it has put…
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Information Architecture meets the Philosophy of Information
Advancing the practical and theoretical basis for how we conceptualise and shape the infosphere.
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Sexism Typology: Literature Review
– in Social Data ScienceDrawing on the rich history of gender studies in the social sciences, coupling it with…
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Alan Turing Institute and OII: Summit on Data Science for Government and Policy Making
Leading policy makers, data scientists and academics came together to discuss how the ATI and…
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Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
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P-values are widely used in the social sciences, but often misunderstood: and that’s a problem.
We need to make standards for interpreting p-values more stringent, and also improve transparency in…
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Facts and figures or prayers and hugs: how people with different health conditions support each other online
Online support groups are one of the major ways in which the Internet has fundamentally…
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Topic modelling content from the “Everyday Sexism” project: what’s it all about?
– in Social Data ScienceHow does the topic modelling algorithm ‘discover’ the topics within the context of everyday sexism?
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The limits of uberisation: How far can platforms go?
Homejoy was slated to become the Uber of domestic cleaning services. It was a platform…
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
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New Voluntary Code: Guidance for Sharing Data Between Organisations
For data sharing between organisations to be straight forward, there needs to a common understanding…
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Controlling the crowd? Government and citizen interaction on emergency-response platforms
Government involvement in crowdsourcing efforts can actually be used to control and regulate volunteers from…