Understanding Privacy as a Multilevel Concept
How do privacy-invasive business practices and technologies gain societal acceptance? To what extent are the associated legitimization processes reflected in the media?
Factsheet
- Lead school Business School
- Institute(s) Institute for Applied Data Science & Finance
- Research unit(s) Applied Data Science
- Funding organisation SNSF
- Duration (planned) 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2027
- Project management Prof. Dr. Patrick Cichy
- Head of project Prof. Dr. Patrick Cichy
- Project staff Prof. Dr. Patrick Cichy
Situation
In an increasingly digitized world, data is becoming an ever more important resource. However, creating value from data can also affect the individuals’ privacy. Although privacy-invasive business practices and technologies are considered socially controversial, they are still widespread. Against this backdrop, it is questionable how these practices and technologies gain legitimacy and how this is reflected in societal discourse.
Course of action
In the context of the project, large amounts of media data are analyzed (e.g., newspaper articles and content on social media). State-of-the-art machine learning approaches and large language models (LLM) are used to examine legitimization processes as they become visible in the media data.
Result
The novel text-based metrics and analytical procedures developed in the project open up the possibility of generating valuable insights regarding the legitimation of privacy-invasive business practices and technologies through automated media analyses.
