Fall 2019

September 18th - Paul Dourish and Data Materiality

Paul Dourish, Stuff of Bits

October 15 - Adrian Mackenzie and Jenna Burrell

Adrian Mackenzie, The production of prediction: What does machine learning want?, 2015 (Recommended: Adrian Mackenzie, Machine learners : archaeology of a data practice, 2017 (Whole Book))

Jenna Burrell, How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms, 2016

November 7th - Data structures/data bases

Matthew Jones, “Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank” in Science in the Archives, ed. Lorraine Daston. 

And Design of Data Mining of WeChat Public Platform Based on Python

November 18th / 18th - Pricing data 

S. A. Fricker, Y.V. Maksimov: Pricing of Data Products in Data Marketplaces, in: A. Ojala, H. Holmström Olsson, K. Werder (eds.), International Conference of Software Business, 2017, pp. 49–66.

D. Moody, P. Walsh: Measuring the Value of Information: An Asset Valuation Approach, in: J. Pries-Heje, C. Ciborra, K. Kautz, J. Valor, E. Christiansen, D. Avison et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Systems, 1999, pp. 496–512.

• December 9 - Zuboff vs. Morozov
  • Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Introduction 
    • OPTIONAL: The rest of the book is available at this link
  • Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. Capitalism’s New Clothes. The Baffler. (A review of Zuboff)
  • OPTIONAL:
    • Data & Society talk by Shoshana Zuboff
    • Interview of Zuboff by John Naughton: "The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism" 

Spring 2020

• February 25
  • Richter & Slowinski, “The Data Sharing Economy: On the Emergence of New Intermediaries”,  P.R. IIC (2019) 50: 4.   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-018-00777-7
  • Malte Ziewitz, Rethinking gaming: The ethical work of optimization in websearch engines
• March 12 - Data markets
  • Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Leiponen, Aija; Thomas, Llewellyn D. W. (2017) : “The (Unfulfilled) Potential of Data Marketplaces,” ETLA Working Papers, No. 53, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki, https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/201268
  • Spiekermann, Markus. “Data Marketplaces: Trends and Monetisation of Data Goods.” Intereconomics (2019) 54: 208.
• March 26 - Infrastructure
  • Value Modeling and Calculation for Everything as a Service (XaaS) Based on Reuse https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6299275
  • Muschalle A., Stahl F., Löser A., Vossen G. (2013) Pricing Approaches for Data Markets. In: Castellanos M., Dayal U., Rundensteiner E.A. (eds) Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence. BIRTE 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
• April 13 - Platform business models 
  • Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole. Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 1, Issue 4https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article/1/4/990/2280902
  • The New Economics of Multisided Platforms, D. Evans and R. Schmalensee, Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.