Making sense of our connected world
Workshop on Participation: Enabling or Hindering Democracy?
Political participation is usually considered to be a basement of democracy, as the sovereign people legitimise their leaders through it. But can it also pose an impediment to it in…
Making Participation Effective. An Informal Workshop Summary
Starting from the observation that the promises of participation are not self-fulfilling and that participation has to be actively realized, the workshop “Making Participation Effective” was held at the meeting on Chances…
Open Hardware – Participatory future of physical goods
In this session of the Meeting on Chances and Risks of Social Participation Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä (lecturer at the University of Arts, Berlin and researcher in the Rethinking Prototyping Project), …
How much difference can technology make for societal participation?
Whereas the morning sessions of the meeting on Chances and Risks of Social Participation sought to further and facilitate the ongoing academic discussions about participation in economic, political or civil society…
Some impressions from the 2013 Early Stage Researchers Colloquium
Nihil sub sole novum? Is there nothing new under the sun, has everything been thought through and been said? Well, John Perry Barlows’s 1966 Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace…
This is How We Will Be Watching TV in the Future – Challenges for TV in a Convergent Media World.
Thanks to the digitalisation and interconnection between various devices, we watch “TV” in the cloud today. This makes the so-called “multi-room viewing” possible and thus TV content can be accessed…
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.
