27 November 2024 @ 14:00 – 17:00 – The Special Interest Group Network Science (Utrecht University) will host talks and debate on prediction methods to gain insights from social networks on Wednesday, 27 November at the Minnaert building …

10 April 2025 – 11 April 2025 @ All Day – On 10 & 11 April 2025, AlgoSoc is organising the AlgoSoc International Conference 2025: The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society. This two-day conference will be held in-person …

24 September 2024 @ 13:00 – 14:30 – On 24 September, Data School will host a free webinar discussing their report ‘FRAIA in action – Lessons learned through 15 FRAIA procedures in Dutch governmental organisations’. This webinar is …

The report ‘FRAIA in action‘ summarises the results of the pilot in which Data School (Centre for Digital Humanities, Utrecht University) collaborated with the Rijks ICT Gilde (RIG) for the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Over the Fall of 2023 and Spring of 2024, a range of government bodies applied the FRAIA to…

A call for abstracts has been published for ‘The Future of Public Values in the Algorithmic Society’, a two-day international conference hosted by AlgoSoc, taking place at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam on 10 & 11 April 2025. The submission deadline is 30 September 2024. Public Values in the Algorithmic Society (AlgoSoc) is an interdisciplinary research programme which…

The Fundamental Rights and Algorithm Impact Assessment (FRAIA) helps to map the risks to human rights in the use of algorithms and to take measures to address these risks.

Together with news magazine De Groene Amsterdammer and television news service RTL Nieuws, Data School conducted research into TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. The researchers created 12 automated accounts that started with an initial interest in dieting, fitness, or slim women; within half an hour they spiraled into a constant stream of videos relating to eating disorders. “The happiest place on earth”,…