Making sense of our connected world
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
1st Berlin Colloquium – Workshop “Open Software & Open Design”
by Kaja Scheliga This workshop was marked by an interdisciplinary approach: A lawyer examined software interoperability, a sociologist explored developments in the field of open design and a computer scientist…
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.
