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URL:https://www.hiig.de/en/events/power-counter-power-in-digital-society/
SUMMARY:Manuel Castells: Power and counter-power in the digital society
DESCRIPTION:How is power constituted in the digital society? Who is powerfu
 l – and how can power be countered and contested? The advent of digitall
 y networked technologies has long been thought to foster democratisation a
 nd emancipation\, to empower people that have previously been marginalised
  and neglected. Today\, we know that the story is more complex: only a few
  companies dominate the internet ecosystem\, democratic uprisings like the
  much-cited "Arab Spring" have faced severe repressions.\n\n\n\nAlready wi
 th his highly influential trilogy The Information Age\, Manuel Castells ha
 s highlighted the ambiguities of this development. Traditional forms of po
 wer might erode\, but new\, distributed forms of power emerge\, Castells a
 rgued back then. In this lecture\, he revisited the development of the las
 t 20 years and explained the re-distribution of power and counter-power in
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 nManuel Castells is Professor of Sociology\, Open University of Catalonia 
 (UOC)\, in Barcelona. He is as well University Professor and the Wallis An
 nenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the Ann
 enberg School of Communication\, University of Southern California\, Los A
 ngeles. He has authored 26 books\, including the trilogy The Information A
 ge: Economy\, Society\, and Culture\, 1996-2003\, published by Blackwell a
 nd translated in 23 languages. This trilogy is probably the most-influenti
 al piece of academic work addressing the transformation of contemporary so
 ciety in the context of the Internet.\nAgenda\n\n\n\n18:30\nDoors open\n\n
 \n19:00 – 19:15\nWelcome and introduction\nPetra Grün (bpb)\nJeanette H
 ofmann (HIIG)\n\n\n19:15 – 20:00\nPower and counter-power in the digital
  society\nManuel Castells (University of Catalonia / University of Souther
 n California)\n\n\n20:00 – 21:00\nModerated conversation and questions f
 rom the Audience\n\n\n21:00 – 22:00\nGet-together\n\n\n\nThe event was h
 eld in English and translated simultaneously into German.\nMaking sense of
  the digital society\nThe Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet an
 d Society (HIIG) and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundes
 zentrale für politische Bildung/bpb) are organising an academic lecture s
 eries on Making sense of the digital society. The high-profile series thr
 ives to develop a European perspective on the processes of transformation 
 that our societies are currently undergoing. Starting with an inaugural le
 cture by Manuel Castells on December 12\, 2017 the series will continue th
 roughout 2018. Further confirmed speakers are Marion Fourcade\, professor 
 of sociology at the UC Berkeley\, Christoph Neuberger\, professor of commu
 nication studies at the LMU München\, Elena Esposito\, Professor for Soci
 ology at University of Bielefeld and University of Modena-Reggio Emilia\, 
 and José van Dijck\, author of the forthcoming book The Platform Society 
 and president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Making sense of the digital society
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