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Kaja Scheliga | 11. February 2014

Exploring Doradical Futures with Sputniko!

This blog post reflects upon the work of Sputniko!. Sputniko! is a Designer/Artist who currently works at MIT Media Lab as Assistant Professor of the Design Fictions Group. Recently, she…

Emma Peters | 7. November 2013

Review of the X. Conference on Public International Law of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) on „Law and Security / Cyber Security“

On 16 and 17 October 2013 the junior researchers team of the Network for Civil Security Law in Europe (KORSE) at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society…

Elena Pfautsch | 29. October 2013

Fellow Footprint 2013 – The “Big Data, Small Data” YouTube Cinema

2In mid-August we met with Elena Pfautsch, the project manager for the Summer Fellow Programme and discussed the possibility of the four of us working together on what we called…

Benedikt Fecher | 28. October 2013

There is no Knowledge Society. A Case for Critical Research on Internet and Society

For more than five decades, the term “knowledge society” has been buzzing around in discourses about society, technology and research (for some examples: Lane 1966, Toffler 1980; Naisbitt 1984, Drucker…

Theresa Züger | 14. October 2013

Public breakfast

Exchange offer: coffee for ideas of digital public Which theories do you know concerning the digital publicity? Which of them do you think are capable of bearing, which are rather…

Larissa Wunderlich | 4. September 2013

Open Invitation: Early Stage Researchers Colloquium

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society is pleased to invite all interested researchers to its annual Early Stage Researchers Colloquium to be held in Berlin on 21 November…

Stefan Stumpp | 17. May 2013

Balanced Scorecard for performance measurement of social media

Companies have different approaches to use social media tools: for management, advertising, public relations, research and development, customer service or for recruiting. However, companies are faced with problems when measuring…

Martin Pleiss | 10. April 2013

Of serial activists and sock puppets: The relevance of language, topics and politics on Twitter

by Cornelius Puschmann Does the Internet cause revolutions? Frequently that is being suggested, whether in the discourse surrounding the Arab Spring, Stuttgart 21, or the Occupy movement. The Internet, conventional…

Martin Pleiss | 25. March 2013

European Commission publishes report on internet of things

by Uta Meier-Hahn What does politics have to take into account when ever more objects are connect to the internet? In the end of February the European Commission published its expert…