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Regulating algorithmic discrimination through adjudication: the Court of Justice of the European Union on discrimination in algorithmic profiling based on PNR data 通过裁决规范算法歧视:欧盟法院关于基于PNR数据的算法侧写中的歧视问题
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1232601
Lucas Michael Haitsma
This article considers the Court of Justice of the European Union's assessment and regulation of risks of discrimination in the context of algorithmic profiling based on Passenger Name Records data (PNR data). On the June 21, 2022 the court delivered a landmark judgment in Ligue des Droits Humains pertaining to discrimination and algorithmic profiling in a border security context. The CJEU identifies and seeks to regulate several risks of discrimination in relation to the automated processing of PNR data, the manual review of the results of this processing, and the resulting decisions taken by competent authorities. It interpreted whether the PNR Directive that lays down the legal basis for such profiling was compatible with the fundamental right to privacy, the right to data protection, and the right to non-discrimination. In its judgment, the CJEU seems to insufficiently assess various risks of discrimination. In particular, it overlooks risks relating to data quality and representativeness, automation bias, and practical difficulties in identifying discrimination. The judges also seem to prescribe safeguards against discrimination without guidance as to how to ensure their uniform and effective implementation. Such shortcomings can be observed in relation to ensuring the non-discriminatory nature of law enforcement databases, preventing indirectly discriminatory profiling practices based on collected PNR data, and configuring effective human-in-the-loop and transparency safeguards. This landmark judgement represents an important step in addressing algorithmic discrimination through CJEU adjudication. However, the CJEUs inability to sufficiently address the risks of discrimination in the context of algorithmic profiling based on the PNR Directive raises a broader concern. Namely, whether the CJEU is adequately equipped to combat algorithmic discrimination in the broader realm of European border security where algorithmic profiling is becoming increasingly commonplace.
本文考虑了欧盟法院在基于乘客姓名记录数据(PNR数据)的算法分析背景下对歧视风险的评估和监管。2022年6月21日,法院在法国人权法院就边境安全背景下的歧视和算法侧写作出了具有里程碑意义的判决。欧洲法院查明并设法管制与自动处理PNR数据、人工审查这一处理结果以及主管当局所作决定有关的几种歧视风险。它解释了为这种分析奠定法律基础的PNR指令是否符合隐私权、数据保护权和不歧视权的基本权利。在其判决中,欧洲法院似乎没有充分评估各种歧视的风险。特别是,它忽略了与数据质量和代表性、自动化偏差以及识别歧视的实际困难有关的风险。法官似乎也规定了防止歧视的保障措施,但没有指导如何确保这些保障措施的统一和有效执行。在确保执法数据库的非歧视性、防止基于收集的PNR数据的间接歧视性分析做法以及配置有效的人在环路和透明度保障措施方面,可以观察到这些缺陷。这一具有里程碑意义的判决是通过法院裁决解决算法歧视问题的重要一步。然而,欧洲法院无法充分解决基于PNR指令的算法侧写背景下的歧视风险,这引起了更广泛的关注。也就是说,欧洲法院是否有足够的能力在更广泛的欧洲边境安全领域打击算法歧视,因为算法侧写正变得越来越普遍。
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Large language models and political science 大型语言模型和政治科学
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1257092
Mitchell Linegar, Rafal Kocielnik, R. Michael Alvarez
Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence that uses information from very large datasets to model the use of language and generate content. While LLMs like GPT-3 have been used widely in many applications, the recent public release of OpenAI's ChatGPT has opened more debate about the potential uses and abuses of LLMs. In this paper, we provide a brief introduction to LLMs and discuss their potential application in political science and political methodology. We use two examples of LLMs from our recent research to illustrate how LLMs open new areas of research. We conclude with a discussion of how researchers can use LLMs in their work, and issues that researchers need to be aware of regarding using LLMs in political science and political methodology.
大型语言模型(llm)是一种人工智能,它使用来自非常大的数据集的信息来建模语言的使用并生成内容。虽然像GPT-3这样的法学硕士已经广泛应用于许多应用程序中,但OpenAI最近公开发布的ChatGPT引发了更多关于法学硕士潜在用途和滥用的争论。在本文中,我们简要介绍了法学硕士,并讨论了它们在政治学和政治方法论中的潜在应用。我们用我们最近研究中的两个法学硕士的例子来说明法学硕士如何打开新的研究领域。最后,我们讨论了研究人员如何在他们的工作中使用法学硕士,以及研究人员在政治学和政治方法论中使用法学硕士时需要注意的问题。
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Methodology challenge in political science research 政治学研究中的方法论挑战
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1295055
Camelia Florela Voinea
SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Polit. Sci., 11 October 2023Sec. Political Science Methodologies Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1295055
专业大挑战文章前沿。Polit。科学。2023年10月11日政治学方法论卷5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1295055
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UNdefined regions: toward a new typology of regions in the UN 未定义区域:迈向联合国区域的新类型
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1214101
Philippe De Lombaerde, Marco D'Attoma, Neil Dullaghan, Hana Umezawa, Caroline Verhelst
Even though the UN interacts with regions and regionalism, a systematic analysis of the development of the regional dimension within their bodies is still needed. Traditional categories identifying simply electoral or operational roles for regions fall short in accounting for their multi-layered and increasing impact. Aiming at formulating a new typology and research agenda in this area, the authors approached the issue inductively. First, they provided a historical mapping of the regional manifestations in the framework of the UN and UN-regional organization interactions. Second, they analyzed relevant debates for the UN on peace, security, and sustainability through the lens of the regional dimension. What emerges is that, though vaguely defined and seriously fragmented, regions are largely used as electoral bodies, socio-economic areas, and statistical categories by the UN, that follow historical, cultural, and political rather than purely geographical criteria in their shaping. Besides, in the last 20 years, regions have become crucial for peacekeeping and conflict resolution in specific areas, as well as they are paramount to the implementation of global sustainability goals. All in all, the inductive approach has outlined three dimensions of UN regionalism: regions' political and operational roles; institutionalized vs. non-institutionalized groupings; and their formal vs. informal status. Finally, the authors suggest that strengthening partnerships between the UN and regional entities should be a milestone for a new era of networked and multi-layered multilateralism, while the harmonization of statistical regions is desirable at the operational level.
尽管联合国与区域和区域主义相互作用,但仍需要对其机构内区域层面的发展进行系统分析。仅确定区域选举或业务作用的传统类别在考虑其多层次和日益增加的影响方面存在不足。作者对这一问题进行了归纳性探讨,以期在这一领域形成新的类型学和研究议程。首先,它们提供了联合国和联合国-区域组织互动框架下的区域表现的历史地图。其次,他们从地区角度分析了联合国关于和平、安全和可持续性的相关辩论。现在的情况是,尽管区域的定义模糊且严重分散,但它们在很大程度上被联合国用作选举机构、社会经济领域和统计类别,它们的形成遵循历史、文化和政治标准,而不是纯粹的地理标准。此外,在过去20年中,区域已成为特定地区维持和平和解决冲突的关键,对实现全球可持续发展目标至关重要。总而言之,归纳方法概述了联合国区域主义的三个方面:区域的政治和业务作用;制度化与非制度化群体;以及他们的正式和非正式地位。最后,作者建议,加强联合国和区域实体之间的伙伴关系应该成为网络化和多层次多边主义新时代的一个里程碑,而统计区域的协调在业务层面是可取的。
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Modern episteme, methodological nationalism and the politics of transnationalism 现代认识论、方法论民族主义与跨国主义政治
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1172393
Abbas Jong
Methodological nationalism can be understood in the broadest sense possible as any kind of correspondence between society and the unit of the nation-state. This equation can be traced and understood at two levels: firstly, within the socio-historical context of the rise of nationalism and the development of human and social sciences; and secondly, within the cognitive context of the emergence of nationalism and these sciences, or the modern episteme, in other words. By focusing on the latter, the present article aims to indicate that the problem of methodological nationalism can be effectively grasped by exploring the intricate interplay among modernity, the discourse of nationalism, and the emergence of social science, particularly concerning the modern episteme. It becomes apparent that the regime of foundationalist differentiation ingrained within the modern episteme has established the foundation for this correspondence or congruence—a regime that, while constructing determined, regulated, unified and completed categories, such as society and the social/nation-state and the national, simultaneously sets the ground for the exclusion of other non-social/non-national phenomena and events. In this paper, the objective is to demonstrate how, by disclosing the implementation of this regime as well as highlighting the contingent nature and, consequently, the conditions of the possibility of social phenomena in the path of their grounding, alongside prioritizing the indeterminate social configurations and arguing for a post-foundationalist approach and the politics of transnationalism, it becomes possible to overcome the problem of methodological nationalism. This, in turn, sets a basis for taking into account excluded and indeterminate phenomena and actors within a global context.
方法论民族主义可以在最广泛的意义上被理解为社会与民族国家单位之间的任何一种对应关系。这个等式可以在两个层面上追溯和理解:首先,在民族主义兴起和人文社会科学发展的社会历史背景下;其次,在民族主义和这些科学出现的认知背景下,或者换句话说,在现代知识论的背景下。通过关注后者,本文旨在表明,通过探索现代性、民族主义话语和社会科学(特别是有关现代知识论)的出现之间错综复杂的相互作用,可以有效地把握方法论民族主义的问题。很明显,根植于现代认知中的基础主义区分制度为这种对应或一致性奠定了基础——这种制度在构建确定的、规范的、统一的和完整的类别(如社会、社会/民族-国家和民族)的同时,也为排除其他非社会/非国家现象和事件奠定了基础。在本文中,我们的目标是通过揭示这一制度的实施,以及突出偶然性,从而揭示社会现象在其基础路径中可能出现的条件,同时优先考虑不确定的社会结构,并主张后基础主义方法和跨国主义政治,从而有可能克服方法论民族主义的问题。这反过来又为在全球范围内考虑被排除的和不确定的现象和行为者奠定了基础。
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The paradox of civic education in Malawi's education system: regaining the missed opportunities 马拉维教育体系中公民教育的悖论:重新获得失去的机会
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1221565
Mackenzie Ishmael Chibambo, Joseph Jinja Divala
There is a common assumption that the removal of civics from the curriculum between 1995 and 2002, when Malawi became a democracy might have deformed citizenship and civic education (CE). This narrative assumes that civics, as a discipline, was critical for instilling democratic and civic values among Malawians. This then prompted the Tonse Alliance Government (TAG) to change the Ministry of Civic Education and Culture (MoCC) to the Ministry of Civic Education and National Unity (MoCENU) as the first step. Additionally, the then Minister of MoCENU proposed a policy change to reintroduce civics in schools arguing that, it is only through this subject that democratic citizenship can be realized. Accordingly, this paper sought to argue that mere changing of MoCC to MoCENU, and reintroducing civics in schools may add nothing toward the creation of democratic citizenship when we consider global trends. This paper therefore utilized qualitative research design especially Critical Hermeneutics to analyze available literature on citizenship and CE trends, its conceptions and common issues around the globe. In doing so, the paper sought to explain whether Malawi's CE projects have been on the right trajectory or not, and how power-relations and political interests have shaped its development. Mainly, we ascribed to the epigram that, straightening a tree is better done in its sapling . In other words, the best spaces for behavior change and habit formation remain the schools because they are naturally designed to prepare children for such roles and functions. While our arguments might not be final, we still understand that many researches have held a fragmented view of citizenship and CE. We thus sought to analyze these two concepts in the lenses of Critical Pedagogy as suggested by Paulo Freire and Henry Giroux who understood schools as political spaces where the hegemony captures the curriculum to oppress society while protecting their interests. By advocating for a democratic model of education anchored in humanization, problem-posing, and critical conscientization, Critical Pedagogy molds students into future citizens who values critical thinking, transparency and democratic values.
人们普遍认为,1995年至2002年马拉维成为民主国家期间,将公民教育从课程中移除,可能会扭曲公民和公民教育(CE)。这种叙述假定,公民作为一门学科,对于向马拉维人灌输民主和公民价值观至关重要。因此,统联政府第一步将公民教育文化部(MoCC)改为公民教育民族统合部(MoCENU)。此外,当时的MoCENU部长提议改变政策,在学校重新引入公民课程,认为只有通过这门课程才能实现民主公民身份。因此,本文试图论证,当我们考虑到全球趋势时,仅仅将MoCC改为MoCENU,并在学校重新引入公民学,可能对民主公民的创造没有任何帮助。因此,本文利用定性研究设计,特别是批判性解释学来分析现有的关于公民身份和公民教育趋势、其概念和全球共同问题的文献。在此过程中,这篇论文试图解释马拉维的能源项目是否走在正确的轨道上,以及权力关系和政治利益是如何影响其发展的。我们主要归结于一句警句:“矫直树不如矫直树苗”。换句话说,行为改变和习惯形成的最佳空间仍然是学校,因为学校的设计自然是为了让孩子们为这些角色和功能做好准备。虽然我们的论点可能不是最终的,但我们仍然明白,许多研究对公民身份和行政长官的看法是支离破碎的。因此,我们试图从保罗·弗莱雷和亨利·吉鲁提出的批判教育学的视角来分析这两个概念,他们将学校理解为政治空间,在那里霸权抓住课程来压迫社会,同时保护他们的利益。通过倡导以人性化、问题提出和批判性尽责为基础的民主教育模式,批判性教育学将学生塑造成重视批判性思维、透明度和民主价值观的未来公民。
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Operationalizing the blue economy in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa 在非洲几内亚湾实施蓝色经济
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1070508
Olusola Olalekan Popoola, Ayo Emmanuel Olajuyigbe
The Blue Economy is crucial for sustainable development in Africa, and the Gulf of Guinea, one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most economically dynamic countries, faces several challenges in transitioning into this economy. This study assesses the situation of the Blue Economy in the Gulf of Guinea and proposes strategies for its operationalization. A qualitative research approach was used to examine each member state's marine conservation initiatives, regional collaboration, management approaches, and strategic frameworks. Findings show that the Gulf of Guinea is already experiencing blue economy activities, but challenges like rapid population growth, urbanization, piracy, unsustainable anthropogenic activities, poor institutional frameworks, and climate change hinder the transition. The Gulf of Guinea's ocean economy accounts for less than 10% of GDP, so integrating the blue economy into trade strategies is crucial for its transformation. A systematic approach based on national priorities, social context, and resource base is needed to foster social inclusion, economic progress, and sustainable ocean development. Enablers of blue growth, such as integrated coastal zone management, marine spatial planning, marine protected areas, marine biodiversity, and blue justice discourse, must be integrated into policy design, prioritizing sustainability and equity. A cautious, phased approach is suggested, focusing on establishing traditional sectors, growing them, integrating value chains, and implementing regional collaboration so that the blue economy delivers on its social, environmental and economic goals in the Gulf of Guinea.
蓝色经济对非洲的可持续发展至关重要。几内亚湾是撒哈拉以南非洲经济最具活力的国家之一,在向蓝色经济转型的过程中面临着若干挑战。本研究评估了几内亚湾蓝色经济的情况,并提出了实施蓝色经济的战略。采用定性研究方法来检查每个成员国的海洋保护倡议、区域合作、管理方法和战略框架。研究结果表明,几内亚湾已经在经历蓝色经济活动,但人口快速增长、城市化、海盗、不可持续的人为活动、糟糕的制度框架和气候变化等挑战阻碍了这一转变。几内亚湾的海洋经济占国内生产总值不到10%,因此将蓝色经济纳入贸易战略对其转型至关重要。需要根据国家优先事项、社会背景和资源基础采取系统的方法,以促进社会包容、经济进步和可持续的海洋开发。必须将海岸带综合管理、海洋空间规划、海洋保护区、海洋生物多样性和蓝色正义话语等蓝色增长的推动因素纳入政策设计,优先考虑可持续性和公平性。建议采取谨慎的、分阶段的方法,重点是建立和发展传统部门,整合价值链,并实施区域合作,以便几内亚湾的蓝色经济实现其社会、环境和经济目标。
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Understanding and evaluating harms of AI-generated image captions in political images 理解和评估人工智能生成的政治图像标题的危害
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-20 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1245684
Habiba Sarhan, Simon Hegelich
The use of AI-generated image captions has been increasing. Scholars of disability studies have long studied accessibility and AI issues concerning technology bias, focusing on image captions and tags. However, less attention has been paid to the individuals and social groups depicted in images and captioned using AI. Further research is needed to understand the underlying representational harms that could affect these social groups. This paper investigates the potential representational harms to social groups depicted in images. There is a high risk of harming certain social groups, either by stereotypical descriptions or erasing their identities from the caption, which could affect the understandings, beliefs, and attitudes that people hold about these specific groups. For the purpose of this article, 1,000 images with human-annotated captions were collected from news agencies “politics” sections. Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services was used to generate AI-generated captions with the December 2021 public version. The pattern observed from the politically salient images gathered and their captions highlight the tendency of the model used to generate more generic descriptions, which may potentially harm misrepresented social groups. Consequently, a balance between those harms needs to be struck, which is intertwined with the trade-off between generating generic vs. specific descriptions. The decision to generate generic descriptions, being extra cautious not to use stereotypes, erases and demeans excluded and already underrepresented social groups, while the decision to generate specific descriptions stereotypes social groups as well as reifies them. The appropriate trade-off is, therefore, crucial, especially when examining politically salient images.
人工智能生成的图像标题的使用一直在增加。残障研究学者长期以来一直在研究有关技术偏见的可访问性和人工智能问题,重点关注图像标题和标签。然而,人们很少关注图像中描绘的个人和社会群体,并使用人工智能进行说明。需要进一步的研究来了解可能影响这些社会群体的潜在代表性危害。本文调查了图像中描绘的社会群体的潜在代表性危害。通过刻板的描述或从标题中删除他们的身份,这可能会影响人们对这些特定群体的理解、信仰和态度,因此伤害某些社会群体的风险很高。为了本文的目的,从新闻机构的“政治”部分收集了1000张带有人工注释的图片。微软的Azure云服务在2021年12月的公开版本中用于生成人工智能生成的字幕。从收集到的政治上突出的图像及其说明文字中观察到的模式突出了用于生成更多通用描述的模型的趋势,这可能会潜在地伤害被歪曲的社会群体。因此,需要在这些危害之间取得平衡,这与生成通用描述与特定描述之间的权衡交织在一起。产生一般性描述的决定,特别小心地不使用刻板印象,消除和贬低被排斥和已经代表性不足的社会群体,而产生特定描述的决定,刻板印象社会群体,并具体化。因此,适当的取舍至关重要,尤其是在审视政治上引人注目的形象时。
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Navigating the demographic shift: an examination of China's new fertility policy and its implications 驾驭人口结构的转变:对中国新生育政策及其影响的考察
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1278072
Wengtong Chan, Chonin Cheang
OPINION article Front. Polit. Sci., 18 September 2023Sec. Comparative Governance Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1278072
观点文章前面。Polit。科学。2023年9月18日比较治理卷5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1278072
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Twitter as political acclamation 推特是一种政治欢呼
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1150501
Simon Hegelich, Saurabh Dhawan, Habiba Sarhan
Acclamation as political form of communication has been used to understand political phenomena by a range of 20th century thinkers and recently has been used to analyze social media. However, if the notion of social media as acclamation is to be fruitful, it should be closely connected to inherent features of social media as technology and should be available to empirical analysis. To do so, this study follows a mixed-method approach. First, we offer a theoretical analysis of acclamation and how it links to each of the constituent parts of social media. Next, we build upon this theoretical analysis to study acclamation and social media as a matter of empirical data analysis to analyse the Tweets of the US-Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden. We apply regression models to measure the effects of acclamation. Our results show that acclamation is an essential feature of political communication but different for each President. This is in parts caused by the algorithms of Twitter which have different effects on the communication of the three Presidents. Our findings expand the idea of social media as acclamation and prove its relevance to the current political discourse.
鼓掌作为一种政治形式的交流已经被20世纪的思想家用来理解政治现象,最近也被用来分析社交媒体。然而,社交媒体作为鼓掌的概念要想取得成果,就必须与社交媒体作为技术的固有特征紧密联系起来,并可供实证分析。为此,本研究采用混合方法。首先,我们提供了鼓掌的理论分析,以及它如何与社会媒体的每个组成部分联系起来。接下来,我们在此理论分析的基础上,对鼓掌和社交媒体进行实证数据分析,分析美国总统奥巴马、特朗普和拜登的推文。我们运用回归模型来衡量鼓掌的效果。我们的研究结果表明,鼓掌是政治沟通的基本特征,但对每位总统都有所不同。这部分是由于推特的算法对三位总统的沟通有不同的影响。我们的研究结果扩展了社交媒体作为鼓掌的想法,并证明了它与当前政治话语的相关性。
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