Making sense of our connected world
1st Berlin Colloquium – Open Science is an umbrella term
by Benedikt Fecher Open Science is an umbrella term Last thursday the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society invited early stage researchers to its colloquium at the HomeBase close to…
1st Berlin Colloquium – Workshop “Transformation of the Public Sphere”
by Julian Staben The workshop „Transformation of the Public Sphere”, moderated by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, was concerned with changes of the public sphere under the influence of modern internet…
[Update: Presentation online] Open Journal Club – Andreas Kuehn on Deep Packet Inspection
[Update] The presentation by Andreas Kühn is now available for download (PDF). The Journal Club is an experimental format for the exchange of scientific ideas, thought provoking artefacts and internal evaluations of…
Social Media Workshop @ HIIG
Media representatives from industry (e.g. Vodafone, Materna, Dussmann) will share their experiences and ideas about social media with experts of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) on April 17, 2012. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, one of the Institutes Directors, will…
Jeanette Hofmann @ Quo Vadis
On the 24th of April, our director Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann is attending the “Quo Vadis” developers conference for computer games. She is participating in the panel “illegal fans – is…
Berlin Talks on Internet and Society
On February 9, 2012, the kick-off meeting of the “Berliner Gespräche” on Internet and Socitey took place at the new Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). The…
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.
