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Digitaler Salon: Ein Herz für Cyborgs
Smart robotic hands, leg prosthesis systems and printed organs: Is smart technology a panacea? Where does 3D printing lead us to, and what are its legal effects? Discuss with us at the upcoming Digitaler Salon on 28 June!
German Internet-Institute in Berlin
The German Internet-Institute will open in Berlin. The HIIG welcomes the decision by the ministry for education. As a network partner of the new institute, the HIIG is looking forward to future cooperation. The institute will start its work still in 2017.
Digitaler Salon: Lost in Neuland?
The special event in July is dealing with digital election issues: German politicians have overlooked digital change. During the 2017 election campaign, we raise the questions: What goes wrong, how do we make up the leeway and where do we want to go? Discuss with us on 26 July 2017!
Open Lunch: Infrastructuring Connectivity
The Internet is usually pictured as immaterial and fluid. The heavy industry and vast energy-consuming infrastructure securing the functionality of web services, as well as its social and environmental effects, remain mainly invisible. On 21 June, Asta Vonderau offers a infrastructural perspective on the Internet:
Dossier: Platform Governance
More and more people and institutions communicate via Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and co. The rules of platforms for sorting and blocking, for liking and sharing determine whose voices get heard, how content is being framed and who gets access to which data.
dwerft Conference
It’s showtime! The research alliance »dwerft« is holding its final conference on 12 May 2017. We cordially invite you to discover the latest IT-based movie- and television technologies. Plus, you'll have the chance to listen two of our PhD candidates giving keynote speeches!
Digitaler Salon: Out of the Dark
Out of the Dark. Darknet, drug-trafficking location and whistleblower’s hideout: should we disenchant the sacred halls of the underworld? And does anonymous surfing make our world appear in the right light? We are going to discover the Darknet on 26 April. Join us for discussion along with pretzels and wine!
Video: Million Bitcoin Baby!
Blockchain instead of financial institutions and bitcoins instead of loose coins? Is the internet going to be tomorrow’s money bin, and FinTech our new savings bank? And who is going to take regulatory measures? Watch the video of our latest Digitaler Salon!
HIIG research magazine: encore 2016
The latest edition of encore is hot off the press. We are glad to be able to share so many exciting findings and insights with you! Immerse yourself in the day-to-day working life of HIIG, read entertaining yet sophisticated interviews and celebrate 5 years of exploring the internet and society with us.
HIIG at re:publica 2017
In which direction is our digital society going? According to the motto »Love Out Loud«, re:publica 2017 invites activists, scientists and media-makers to Berlin. This year, we have six researchers amongst all speakers and presenters! See the full programme here:
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