Making sense of our connected world
1st Berlin Colloquium – Workshop “Patterns of participation”
by Stefan Stumpp During the first workshop two speakers presented on the subject of “patterns of participation” from different points of view: Sabine Thürmel from the TU München reported on the…
Wikipedia Academy: Registration started!
From 29 June until 1 July 2012 the Wikipedia Academy (#wpac2012) will take place in Berlin, under the theme “Research and Free Knowledge”. For the first time, Wikimedia Deutschland organises…
Fair Use in Europa? Workshop with Pamela Samuelson
In the course of the debates on the anti-piracy-agreement ACTA, the discussion about copyright within the digital society hit new dimensions. The debate about reforms, condensing parallel to this, is…
“Utilising Creative Potential by Crowdsourcing”
On May 24, 2012 the book „Information Management 2.0“ by Lutz Becker, Walter Gora and Matthias Uhrig (Eds.) will be presented and published to which Thomas Schildhauer contributed the article „Utilising…
Crowdfunding for Artists in Australia
In April 2012 Institutes Director Thomas Schildhauer visited the ECU Centre for Innovative Practice in Perth, Australia, to discuss recent developments in the area of „Internet-enabled Innovation“. Invited by Dr Paul…
Freedom House Report 2012
The Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society will pen this year’s Freedom on the Net Report for Freedom House. Freedom House is an NGO based in Washingon, D.C., best known…
How COVID-19 impacts digital technologies
The current lockdown is boosting online activity – everything is increasingly shifting to the digital sphere. In this dossier we ask if, how and why the Corona pandemic will affect key subjects of digital technologies. What does this mean for the regulation of content on digital platforms? How is Covid-19 activating the digital society? How does it transform our online culture? How safe are tracing apps? What lessons can be learned regarding cyber security? Busy times for our researchers!
How metaphors shape the digital society
Cloud, Big Data, Piracy, Virus are common terms in the debates about digital technologies. At the same time they are methaphors that originate from other fields than technology. What normative or political baggage do they therefore carry? How does this vocabulary shape the emerging digital society? In the series of articles on the How metaphors shape the digital society different authors analyse the assumptions and meanings of metaphors in the digital era.
