BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:678@hiig.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190605T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190605T220000 DTSTAMP:20190701T113935Z URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/jose-van-dijck-europe-and-responsible-pl atform-societies/ SUMMARY:José van Dijck: Europe and responsible platform societies DESCRIPTION:The growing pains of digitisation involve intense struggles bet ween competing ideological systems and contesting societal actors – mark et\, government and civil society — raising important questions about re sponsibility and accountability. Two large ecosystems rule the global onli ne world: a Chinese and an American-based ecosystem. The latter has overwh elmingly penetrated Western-European societies\, disrupting markets and la bor relations\, circumventing institutions\, transforming social and civic practices\, and affecting democracies. Online platforms paradoxically byp ass the institutional processes through which European democratic societie s are organised\, while at the same time they clash with local\, national\ , and supra-national governments over who controls data-flows and algorith ms.\n\nOnline architectures are governed by platform mechanisms (e.g. data fication and commodification) that dominate both private and public sector s. Public values and the common good are the very stakes in the struggle o ver the platformisation of societies around the globe. This lecture concen trates on the position of European (private and public) interests vis-à-v is the interests of an American-based online ecosystem\, driven by a handf ul of high-tech corporations. At the heart of the online media industry’ s surge is the battle over information control: Who owns the data generate d by online social activities? Who is responsible for anchoring public val ues in an online world? Particularly in the European context\, governments and civil society organisations can be proactive in negotiating public va lues on behalf of citizens and consumers.\n\n\nJosé van Dijck: Europe and responsible platform societies\n5 June 2019 | 7 pm | doors open 6.30 pm\n Säälchen am Holzmarkt | Holzmarktstraße 25 | 10243 Berlin\n \;\nJos é van Dijck's keynote (PDF)\n \;\n\nJosé van Dijck is a distinguishe d university professor at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)\; sh e was the president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2015 until 2018. She was a visiting professor at MIT (USA)\, Universi ty of Toronto (CAN)\, Stockholm University (SWE) and University of Technol ogy\, Sydney (AUS). She received an honorary doctorate from Lund Universit y (SWE).\n\nVan Dijck’s academic field is media studies and digital soci ety. Her work covers a wide range of topics in media theory\, media and co mmunication technologies\, social media\, and digital culture. She is the (co-)author and (co-editor of ten books and over one hundred journal artic les and book chapters. Van Dijck’s book The Culture of Connectivity. A C ritical History of Social Media (Oxford UP\, 2013) was distributed worldwi de and was translated into Spanish\, Chinese and Farsi. Her latest book\, co-authored by Thomas Poell &\; Martijn de Waal is titled The Platform Society. Public values in a connective world (Oxford University Press\, 20 18).\n\n[photospace ids="60222\,60224\,60226\,60228\,60230\,60232\,60234\, 60236\,60238\,60240\,60242\,60244\,60246\,60248"]\n\n \;\nAgenda\n\n\n \n18:30\n  Doors open\n\n\n19:00 – 19:15\n  Welcome and introduction\n \n\n19:15 – 20:00\n  Europe and responsible platform societies\n  Jos é van Dijck (University of Utrecht)\n\n\n20:00 – 21:00\n  Moderated di scussion and questions from the audience\n\n\n\n21:00 – 22:00\n  Get-to gether\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe event will be held in English and simultaneou sly translated into German.\n\nFor press accreditation\, please contact F lorian Lüdtke.\n\nThis event will be recorded and broadcasted live. By si gning up you consent to be photographed\, filmed and/or otherwise recorded during the event and to the use of the content in connection with the pro motion and public relations of the event.\n\n \;\nMaking Sense of the Digital Society\n\n\nThe current rapid pace of technological change create s enormous uncertainties - and thus the need for explanations that help us better understand our situation and shape the future. The Alexander von H umboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Federal Agency f or Civic Education (bpb) are therefore continuing the Lecture Series Maki ng Sense of the Digital Society that was launched in 2017. The aim of the format is to develop a European perspective on the current processes of t ransformation and its societal impact. The first speaker of this year's se ries was sociologist Eva Illouz\, followed by Dirk Baecker. Louise Amoore  will be the upcoming speaker on 1 July.\nRegistration\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/V anDijck_01-Castells-–-16zu9-Kopie.png CATEGORIES:Making sense of the digital society LOCATION:Säälchen - Holzmarkt\, Holzmarktstraße 25\, Berlin\, 10243\, Ge rmany X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Holzmarktstraße 25\, Berli n\, 10243\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Säälchen - Holzmarkt:geo: 0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR