Wahlkompass Digitales: Online-Tool to compare election programmes
How do we use data purposefully and justly? How should we react to populism and social bots? How can we protect ourselves against cyber attacks? More than ever, the German federal elections will deal with questions of the digital age. Our digital election compass opens up the political …
Dossier: How metaphors shape the digital society
Cloud, big data, piracy, virus are common terms in the debates about digital technologies. At the same time they are methaphors that originate from other fields than technology. What normative or political baggage do they therefore carry? How does this vocabulary shape the emerging digital society?
Now available: HIIG Quarterly
What is an elephant doing inside a lab? Which metaphors can teach us something about the digital society? How do political parties deal with questions of the digital age? When does the Game Jam take place? The July edition of »HIIG Quarterly« covers our latest research projects, publications and events in general.
Blog launch: Elephant in the Lab
Elephant in the Lab targets problems in science. The new blog explicitly adresses »elephants in the lab«, so that scientists can keep up with digital developments and serve as informed partners for society. We’re celebrating its launch at a press event on 11 July:
Privacy, data protection & surveillance – the contested consent
While the third interdisciplinary workshop on privacy, data protection & surveillance in our series focused primarily on theoretical questions, the fourth workshop mainly concerned more practical issues. We put a major focus on the concept of informed …
Wahlkompass Digitales: Online-Tool to compare election programmes
The “Wahlkompass Digitales” guides voters through the digital topics of the German Federal Elections in 2017. Researchers of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) analysed the election programmes regarding topics …
Key resource knowledge: learning in a digitalised world
The digitalisation challenges existing paradigms in almost all areas of society. It is not – although often claimed – a force of nature that we have to adapt to. It is rather a process that we can shape. The study “Key resource knowledge: learning in a digitalised world” helps to better understand the …
Innovative and regulated
Telemedius is a law internet project concentrating on questions of the information society. On the first July weekend they held their annual summer conference with the topic: The law of the digital world – between algorithms, autonomous systems and disruption. Die Telemedicus Sommerkonferenz zu neuen technischen Trends …
- Online-Tool vergleicht Programme
Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Jörg Pohle, Christian Djeffal
Kommune21 27.07.2017
HIIG IN MEDIA
- Djeffal, C.
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