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Engaged Research-Led Teaching: Composing Collective Inquiry with Digital Methods and Data

This article examines the organisation of collaborative digital methods and data projects in the context of engaged research-led teaching in the humanities. Drawing on interviews, field notes, projects and practices from across eight research groups associated with the Public Data Lab (publicdatalab.org), it provides considerations for those interested in undertaking such projects, organised around four areas: composing (1) problems and questions; (2) collectives of inquiry; (3) learning devices and infrastructures; and (4) vernacular, boundary and experimental outputs.Informed by constructivist approaches to learning and pragmatist approaches to collective inquiry, these considerations aim to support teaching and learning through digital projects which surface and reflect on the questions, problems, formats, data, methods, materials and means through which they are produced.

Like a virus

Het verlies van geld, geluk en gezicht

Onze samenleving is sterk gedigitaliseerd. Het internet is de arena waarin wij werken, onze financiën regelen, boodschappen doen, waar ons sociale leven plaatsvindt en we liefde zoeken.1 Als gevolg van deze digitalisering is cybercriminaliteit in toenemende mate een probleem. De prevalentie van deze ‘nieuwe’ vormen van criminaliteit overstijgt inmiddels de ‘traditionele’ vormen van criminaliteit. Statistieken over de gehele wereld laten een vergelijkbaar beeld zien. Onderzoek laat zien dat slachtoffers van cybercriminaliteit negatieve (financiële, psychologische en emotionele) gevolgen ondervinden (bijv. Cross e.a. 2016; Jansen & Leukfeldt 2018; Worsley e.a. 2017; Reyns & Randa 2015). Deze gevolgen worden geregeld versterkt door onbegrip voor het slachtoffer, gebrek aan ondersteuning (Worsley e.a. 2017; Cross e.a. 2016; Notté e.a. 2020) en onvoldoende kennis en mogelijkheden vanuit de politie en justitie om zaken succesvol aan te pakken (Leukfeldt e.a. 2013a; 2013b; 2018). Het bestaande slachtofferbeleid is gebaseerd op kennis over en onderzoek naar de ervaringen van slachtoffers van offline criminaliteit (zie bijv. Leukfeldt e.a. 2018). Het is van belang om meer kennis over deze vormen van slachtofferschap te genereren en te delen over de hele linie van wetenschap, beleid, opsporing, vervolging en ondersteuning.

Unravelling the Web: Exploring Russian Interference targeting the EU during the 2019 European Parliament Elections

While there is extensive research on how Russian interference – in particular Russian disinformation operation – has played out in different European countries, indications of Russian interference directly targeting EU, its institutions or policies received little attention. This paper argues why there is good reason to assume that the EU, its institutions and its policies are an ideal a target for authoritarian regimes to exploit. It then explores in what ways, if any, Russian disinformation campaigning targeted EU institutions and their policies during the political and electoral campaigns leading up to the European Parliament (EP) elections of May 2019. In this context disinformation campaigning in terms of both network flows and contents (‘narratives’) have been examined, on the basis of a review of various reports identifying Russian interference and disinformation and of analyses of overall disinformation flows in Europe and the use of a database monitoring occurrences of disinformation.

Our experiences with experience-based co-design

Emergency care (from ambulance to emergency room) is focused on somatic care: fixing the body. When a patient with mental dysregulation who experiences ‘disproportionate feelings like fear, anger, sadness or confusion, possibly with associated behaviours’ (Van de Glind et al. 2023) does not get appropriate attention, this can result in the disruption of treatment and even psychological trauma upon trauma. To improve the emergency care process, the authors of this paper - health researchers and design researchers engaged in a project based on the experience-based co-design (EBCD) approach (Donetto et al. 2015; Bate and Robert 2007). EBCD is a method used to design better experiences in healthcare settings, in cooperation with (former) patients and healthcare professionals. The process of EBCD involves partnerships between stakeholders and the discovery and sensemaking of experiences through specialized methods to gain an understanding of the interface between user and service, to design new experiences (Bate and Robert 2007, 31). There is, however, an interesting challenge in bringing patients and care professionals together. In emergency care, patients depend greatly on their healthcare providers. The patients in this study had existing mental vulnerabilities and may have been traumatized by previous visits. We needed to enable these stakeholders to be equal partners with ownership and power, one of the characteristics of co-design in EBCD (Donetto et al. 2015). In this paper, we describe how we adapted and applied the EBCD method, with a focus on creating equal partnerships. We also reflect on the extent of our success and the diBiculties we encountered in attaining this objective.

Content governance on social networking sites: Battling disinformation and upholding values

Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have millions of users logging in every day, using these platforms for commu­ nication, entertainment, and news consumption. These platforms adopt rules that determine how users communicate and thereby limit and shape public discourse.2 Platforms need to deal with large amounts of data generated every day. For example, as of October 2021, 4.55 billion social media users were ac­ tive on an average number of 6.7 platforms used each month per internet user.3 As a result, platforms were compelled to develop governance models and content moderation systems to deal with harmful and undesirable content, including disinformation. In this study: • ‘Content governance’ is defined as a set of processes, procedures, and systems that determine how a given platform plans, publishes, moder­ ates, and curates content. • ‘Content moderation’ is the organised practice of a social media plat­ form of pre-screening, removing, or labelling undesirable content to reduce the damage that inappropriate content can cause.