Die Verbreitung des Internets, die zunehmende Digitalisierung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung und Politik, sowie die Entfaltung der Civic Technology Bewegung haben über die letzten Jahre zu einer starken Zunahme an hochdetaillierten digitalen Datenbeständen über politische Akteure und...

Part 1. Setting the Scene: Analyzing Big Data 1. What is Big in Big Data? 2. Approaches to Analyzing Big Data 3. The Two Domains of Big Data Analytics Part 2. Platform: Software and Computing Resources 4. Software: Programming with (Big) Data 5. Hardware: Computing Resources 6. Distributed...

We study the impact of web search personalization on ideological segregation in search results. We deploy 150 synthetic internet users with randomized partisan preferences across 25 US cities. These users generate authentic browsing histories and are active during the US 2020 election and its...

World governance today is characterized by international organizations lacking democratic legitimacy and control by the citizens they claim to represent. They are also criticized for being inefficient. This leads to violent protests and to NGOs having great influence. To address these problems,...