Digitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen

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Auflistung Digitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen nach Autor:in "Ausloos, Jef"

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    Fulfilling data access obligations: How could (and should) platforms facilitate data donation studies?
    (2024) Hase, Valerie; Ausloos, Jef; Boeschoten, Laura; Pfiffner, Nico; Janssen, Heleen; Araujo, Theo; Carrière, Thijs; de Vreese, Claes; Haßler, Jörg; Loecherbach, Felicia; Kmetty, Zoltán; Möller, Judith; Ohme; Schmidbauer, Elisabeth; Struminskaya, Bella; Trilling, Damian; Welbers, Kasper; Haim, Mario
    Research into digital platforms has become increasingly difficult. One way to overcome these difficulties is to build on data access rights in EU data protection law, which requires platforms to offer users a copy of their data. In data donation studies, researchers ask study participants to exercise this right and donate their data to science. However, there is increasing evidence that platforms do not comply with designated laws. We first discuss the obligations of data access from a legal perspective (with accessible, transparent, and complete data as key requirements). Next, we compile experiences from social scientists engaging in data donation projects as well as a study on data request/access. We identify 14 key challenges, most of which are a consequence of non-compliance by platforms. They include platforms’ insufficient adherence to (a) providing data in a concise and easily accessible form (e.g. the lack of information on when and how subjects can access their data); (b) being transparent about the content of their data (e.g. the lack of information on measures); and (c) providing complete data (e.g. the lack of all available information platforms process related to platform users). Finally, we formulate four central recommendations for improving the right to access.
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    OSD2F: An Open-Source Data Donation Framework
    (2022) Araujo, Theo; Ausloos, Jef; van Atteveldt, Wouter; Loecherbach, Felicia; Moeller, Judith; Ohme, Jakob; Trilling, Damian; van de Velde, Bob; De Vreese, Claes H.; Welbers, Kasper
    The digital traces that people leave through their use of various online platforms provide tremendous opportunities for studying human behavior. However, the collection of these data is hampered by legal, ethical, and technical challenges. We present a framework and tool for collecting these data through a data donation platform where consenting participants can securely submit their digital traces. This approach leverages recent developments in data rights that have given people more control over their own data, such as legislation that now mandates companies to make digital trace data available on request in a machine-readable format. By transparently requesting access to specific parts of this data for clearly communicated academic purposes, the data ownership and privacy of participants is respected, and researchers are less dependent on commercial organizations that store this data in proprietary archives. In this paper we outline the general design principles, the current state of the tool, and future development goals.