Making sense of our connected world
How Love Steaks almost changed the German film industry
If the inside magazine “The Hollywood reporter” is writing about a German film school movie, it is worth reading, especially when it is connected in the next sentence to a new…
Demonstrate and Disobey
In February 2014 I had the chance to be a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. As a finishing touch to these exciting weeks,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Digital Ethics
Whether civil society, politics or science – everyone seems to agree that the New Twenties will be characterised by digitalisation. But what about the tension of digital ethics? How do we create a digital transformation involving society as a whole, including people who either do not have the financial means or the necessary know-how to benefit from digitalisation? And what do these comprehensive changes in our actions mean for democracy? In this dossier we want to address these questions and offer food for thought on how we can use digitalisation for the common good.
