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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schneider
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem Digit EU+Global
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: Anmeldegruppe Seminare
Comments/contents:
The digital transformation and artificial intelligence are permeating all areas of society. In the early days of net politics, utopias of freedom, equality and democratisation of the public sphere on the internet were advocated. Today, the focus is on the dominance of large digital platforms and their business models, as well as undesirable developments such as hate speech, disinformation and surveillance. Issues of digital sovereignty are increasingly being discussed in the context of geopolitical tensions.
The EU has become an international reference model thanks to the General Data Protection Regulation. Further EU legal acts on the risk regulation of artificial intelligence (AI Act), competition law (Digital Services Act and Digital Market Act) and data governance (DGA, Data Act) have been adopted.
Digital policy is also on the agenda in the Global South. Brazil will hold the G20 presidency in 2024, after India in 2023 and Indonesia in 2022, and we will be looking at the social credit system in China, the Aadhaar biometric ID system in India, content moderation in the Philippines and data protection laws in Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa and other countries. We will analyse and evaluate the implications of these regulatory processes in various areas.
Learning objectives:
The seminar conveys theoretical and empirical approaches to digital policy in comparison between the European Union and countries of the Global South. It will enable a profound comparative analysis of the prerequisites and effects of legal and technical regulations in digital governance.
Didactic concept:
After an introductory phase with lectures by the professor, the participants work on the seminar topics through presentations, literature provided and their own research. At the end of the seminar, you will write a paper (10-15 pages). Good preparation, regular participation and active participation are expected. The seminar takes place in double sessions.
Literature:
Bradford, Anu (2020): The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World. Oxford
Bradford, Anu (2023): Digital Empires. Oxford University Press
Belli, Luca/Doneda, Danilo (2022): Data protection in the BRICS countries: legal interoperability through innovative practices and convergence, International Data Privacy Law, ipac019, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipac019
Chin, Josh /Lin, Liza 2022: Surveillance State. Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control. Macmillan.
de Bastion, Geraldine / Mukku, Sreekanth (2020): Data and the Global South: Key Issues for Inclusive Digital Development. HBS-Studie. Washington.
European Commission: A European Strategy for data, https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/strategy-data
Fischer, David (2022): The digital sovereignty trick: why the sovereignty discourse fails to address the structural dependencies of digital capitalism in the global south. Z Politikwiss 32, 383–402 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-022-00316-4
IMF: 2024: Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work. Washington.
Rudinow Saetnan, Ann; Schneider, Ingrid; Green, Nicola (Hg.) (2020): The Politics of Big Data: Big Data, Big Brother? New York: Routledge.
Schneider, Ingrid (2020): Democratic Governance of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence? Exploring Governance Models of China, the US, the EU and Mexico. In: JeDEM – EJournal of EDemocracy and Open Government, 12(1), S. 1–24; https://doi.org/10.29379/jedem.v12i1.604
UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2021): Digital Economy Report 2021. New York, https://unctad.org/page/digital-economy-report-2021
UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2021): Digital Economy Report 2021. New York, https://unctad.org/page/digital-economy-report-2021
Additional examination information:
Term paper, 10-15 pages, deadline: 30 August 2024
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