Mi. 27.04.2022

Big Data and the Risk of Misguided Responsibilization

In a culture in which individual responsibility continues to be celebrated, this raises questions about new opportunities for institutional design with a stronger focus on individual responsibility. But what is it that can be drawn from big data?

In her talk, Prof. Lisa Maria Herzog argues that we should not expect a “god’s eye view” on choice versus circumstances from big data. “Responsibility” is a social construct that depends on the logic of different social situations, as well as our epistemic access to certain counterfactuals.