Making sense of our connected world
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…
CfP: Wikipedia Academy
Call for Papers: Wikipedia Academy 2012 – Research and Free Knowledge, 29th of June until 1st of July in Berlin In cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet…
BarCamp: How the Internet Changes our Reality
Organized by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Future Challenges and The Club of Rome, the one-day BarCamp on November 28th 2011 was intended to explore the ways in…
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.
