Projects

Current projects

DataECO

DataECO

Funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) through the ATRAE programme, DataECO - Environmental Activism Through and Against Data in the Platform Society is a €1...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

AI, Democracy and Big Tech [AIDEMOCRACY] explores corporate activities in the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and their implications for trust, governance, and...

Recent projects

Public Involvement in AI Governance

Public Involvement in AI Governance

In spring and summer 2025, Arne Hintz led two research projects to explore and advance public involvement in the roll-out of AI in public services. The project...

Democratising the Datafied Society

Democratising the Datafied Society

Expanding on our work on advancing civic participation in data governance, we are currently exploring further ways in which people engage with, and intervene into, the...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

Big Data from the South

In collaboration with DATACTIVE. An initiative for theoretical and empirical exchange on the challenges of datafication and massive data collection as they unfold in...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

Data Scores as Governance

The mass collection and processing of data is becoming an increasingly integral part of governance. Whilst the integration of big data analytics in government practice...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

Data Policies

The project Data Policies: Regulatory Approaches for Data-Driven Platforms in the UK and EU (2017-19) was a research project conducted by Arne Hintz and Jess Brand at...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

DATAJUSTICE – ERC Starting Grant

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication. It is premised on two significant developments: 1) the shift to a focus on the collection...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

Data Harm Record

Updated August 2020 Joanna Redden, Jessica Brand and Vanesa Terzieva                           ...

AI, Democracy and Big Tech – AIDEMOCRACY

bot populi

An online magazine on current debates regarding social justice in a digital world, which the Data Justice Lab has developed together with a group of international...

Previous projects

(before the formal establishement of the Data Justice Lab)