Publications

Reports Link to heading

Baack, S. (2024). Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich. Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI Mozilla Foundation. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/library/generative-ai-training-data/common-crawl/

Baack, S., & Larsen, S. (2022). Who Has Power Over AI? Compilation of facts and figures for the Internet Health Report 2022, Mozilla. https://2022.internethealthreport.org/facts/

Baack, S., & Maxwell, M. (2020). Alternative Data Governance Approaches: Global Landscape Scan and Analysis. https://assets.mofoprod.net/network/documents/DataGovernanceApproaches.pdf

Baack, S., Witschge, T. & Ziyatdinova, T. (2018). The European cultural journals sector. Diversity, common characteristics, and challenges. Research report for Eurozine. https://www.eurozine.com/ecjs/

Peer-reviewed articles Link to heading

Heft, A., & Baack, S. (2021). Cross-Bordering Journalism: How Intermediaries of Change Drive the Adoption of New Practices. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884921999540

Cheruiyot, D., Baack, S. & Ferrer-Conill, R. (2019). Data journalism beyond legacy media: The case of African and European civic technology organizations. Digital Journalism 7(9), 1215-1229. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1591166

Baack, S. (2018). Practically Engaged: The entanglements between data journalism and civic tech. Digital Journalism 6(6), 673-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1375382

Baack, S. (2018). Civic Tech at mySociety: How the Imagined Affordances of Data Shape Data Activism. Krisis 2018 (1), 44-56. https://archive.krisis.eu/civic-tech-at-mysociety-how-the-imagined-affordances-of-data-shape-data-activism/

Baack, S. (2015). Datafication and empowerment: How the open data movement re-articulates notions of democracy, participation, and journalism. Big Data & Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715594634

Book chapters Link to heading

Baack, S., Djeffal, C., Jarke, J. & Send, H. (2023). Civic Tech. Ein Beispiel für Bürgerzentrierung und Bürgerbeteiligung als Leitbild der Verwaltungsdigitalisierung. In T. Klenk, F. Nullmeier & G. Wewer (Eds.), Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_29-2

Baack, S., Cheruiyot, D., Ferrer-Conill, R. (2022), Journalism is not a one-way street. Recognizing multi-directional dynamics. In P. Ferrucci & S. A. Eldridge II (Eds.), The Institutions Changing Journalism. Barbarians Inside the Gate. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003140399-10/journalism-one-way-street-stefan-baack-david-cheruiyot-raul-ferrer-conill. PDF available at https://hdl.handle.net/11370/5fb08a36-c54e-4320-ad27-e7ef2b27647a

Baack, S. (2021). Data Journalism’s Entanglements with Civic Tech. In J. Gray & L. Bounegru (Eds.), The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, pp. 286-290. Amsterdam. University Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47509

Baack, S. (2013). A New Style of News Reporting. Wikileaks and Data-driven Journalism. In B. Rambatan & J. Johanssen (Eds.), Cyborg subjects: discourses on digital culture (pp. 113–122). [S.l.]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-400253

Other publications (selection) Link to heading

Baack, S. (2023). The human decisions that shape generative AI: Who is accountable for what? Mozilla Foundation Blog. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-human-decisions-that-shape-generative-ai-who-is-accountable-for-what/

Baack, S. (2016). What big data leaks tell us about the future of journalism and its past. Internet Policy Review. https://policyreview.info/articles/news/what-big-data-leaks-tell-us-about-future-journalism-and-its-past/413

Baack, S. (2013). Die Open-Data-Bewegung. Das Verhältnis von Praktiken, Zielen und Selbstbild der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland. Masterarbeit, Universität Bremen. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-363745

Baack, S. (2012): Gibt es ein “Open Movement”? Gastkommentar auf netzpolitik.org. https://netzpolitik.org/2012/gibt-es-ein-open-movement/

Dissertation Link to heading

Knowing what counts: How journalists and civic technologists use and imagine data. University of Groningen. https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/knowing-what-counts-how-journalists-and-civic-technologists-use-a