Auf der #republica25 diskutierte die Netzgemeinde über die wachsende Gefahr des digitalen Faschismus und wie Demokratie im Netz geschützt werden kann. Lösungen sind gefragt! 💻🛡️ Mehr dazu im Artikel: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/re-publica-25-digitaler-faschismus-und-was-dagegen-hilft-100.html #Demokratie #BigTech #DigitalSociety #newz
#digitalsociety
“I became disabled—and the internet became my world.”
In this week’s clip, Professor Mark Griffiths shares how going online became essential to staying part of society after becoming disabled.
🎧 We also explore the blurry line between digital addiction and intense internet use.
🔗 Listen here: https://youtu.be/hJ62AERmZjM
#DisabilityTech #DigitalSociety #InternetAddiction #BehavioralAddiction #TheInternetIsCrack #PodcastClip
Live today at re:publica 25:
Peer Heinlein – A community has to do what a community has to do
In his keynote speech, Peer Heinlein explains why #OpenSource means freedom to him and uses a real-life example to highlight the importance of open source software for a digitally sovereign Europe.
📅 May 27, 2025 | 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
https://re-publica.com/de/session/community-has-do-what-community-has-do
🌍 Brave Conversations is coming to Stuttgart! 🚀
🟢 5/7/2025, 10am to 04pm
🟢 @Aquarium Campus Vaihingen
🟢 Pfaffenwaldring 45
Since 2017, Brave Conversations has created spaces around the world for people to explore how emerging technologies are transforming our lives—and how we are shaping them in return. Rooted in the spirit of the Web Science Conferences, these events bring critical discussions into the public sphere, inviting diverse voices to reflect, question, and co-create our digital future.
🗓️ Join us for Brave Conversations: Stuttgart 2025 – a dynamic, day-long event open to everyone interested in the societal impact of digital innovation.
We at IRIS – the 🔵 Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems are proud and excited to co-organize this event alongside School for Talents (with Lisa Kohler), Stuttgarter Change Labs (Spela Setzen), and Intersticia, and to host it at the Universität Stuttgart.
Whether you're a student, researcher, creative thinker, or simply curious about how humans and technologies shape one another — your voice matters in these conversations.
💡 Expect thoughtful dialogue, hands-on learning, and a welcoming atmosphere led by an experienced team of facilitators, including Anni Rowland-Campbell, Hannah Stewart, and Ghada Ibrahim, with contributions from our brilliant team at the University of Stuttgart.
💬 We believe that change begins with dialogue. Come share your perspective and help shape the digital world we want to live in.
📲 Registration: https://lnkd.in/e4NpUCKz
#BraveConversations
#Stuttgart2025
#IRIS
#DigitalSociety
#WebScience
#HumanTechnology
#DigitalTransformation
#AIandSociety
#TechForGood
#FutureOfTechnology
#EthicsInTech
#DigitalHumanities
#CriticalThinking
#TechDialogue
#DigitalLiteracy
#STEM
#Innovation
#UniversityOfStuttgart
#Intersticia
#ChangeLabs
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#PublicEngagement
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IRIS Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. André Bächtiger
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Bauer
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach
Dr. Miriam K.
Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Wirzberger
If you're part of the IRIS community – like Cyber Valley, @izkt_stuttgart – Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung der Universität Stuttgart, ARENA2036 or @alexanderbrem we’d love to see you join the conversation!
📢 This Sunday: Part 2 of my #SurveillanceCapitalism series.
👁️🗨️ It's about the hidden incentives behind “personalized” experiences. How choice, behavior, and even dissent are being shaped upstream.
📬 Want it in your inbox?
Do Algorithms Choose Who I See?
Prof. Brian Ekdale breaks down how your feed is curated—and how that shapes your reality.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/35Nj0Y53Puo
#AlgorithmicPower #SocialMediaLogic #TheInternetIsCrack #DigitalSociety #BlackBoxTech
How do recommendation algorithms shape science content on social media? Weizenbaum scholars Clarissa Walter & Sascha Friesike have investigated this question in a two-year ethnography at a German Public Broadcast Service.
Read their paper via JCom: https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2402_2025_A02/
#research #mediastudies #socialscience #scicom #digitalsociety #socialmedia #journalism #ai #tech
Explosive #virality is one of the emergent features of a hyperconnected #digitalsociety. It can be enhanced by the incentives and designs of platforms, but is intrinsic to the low friction and dense topology of digital #socialnetworks.
Like so many tech changes, cannot be simply labelled as "bad" or "good". It simply means more people act in a coordinated, synchronized fashion.
*What* their action is is the real issue. Good or bad gets multiplied dramatically.
🔔 Reminder: Two RESPOND seminars next week!
📅 Apr 14 – Prof. Ceva on conceptualising corruption
📅 Apr 15 – Dr. Ivanov on corruption & inequality
📍 University of Bologna or online
🔗 Full info: https://www.eu-respond.eu/events/
See you there!
#RESPOND #EUProjects #HorizonEurope #ResearchAndInnovation #PoliticalCorruption #Transparency #SocioEconomicInequality #PublicPolicy #AcademicEvents #InstitutionalTrust #DigitalSociety #RESPONDProject #RespondSeminarSeries #AcademicTalks
🎙️✨ #RSAC 2025 Kickoff Chat | Many Voices, One Community!
🤔 Hey, Sean Martin, CISSP? Did we arrive at our first RSA Conference by carriage and horses? Was it 1871? Well, it feels like it’s been that long—and yet, here we are again, keeping the tradition alive.
Every year, Sean Martin and I sit down with our friends Britta Glade (SVP, Content & Communities) and Linda Gray Martin (Chief of Staff & SVP, RSA Conference) for what’s become a TRADITIONAL kickoff conversation on the road to RSAC.
Whether you’re packing your bags for San Francisco or following along from anywhere else around the world, we’ve got you covered!
Watch or listen up to to this pre-conference conversation—exploring what’s new, what’s exciting, and what you absolutely cannot miss at #RSAC2025.
📺 Teaser Video: https://youtu.be/w3CNsANTPF8
🎥 Full Video Conversation: https://youtu.be/azfBY8vs-8c
🌐 RSAC 2025 Coverage Page: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsac
Our mission is simple: to bring the conversations from RSA Conference into every corner of the world—for those attending in person, and for those who can’t make the trip.
Let’s stay connected and make cybersecurity a truly global conversation.
See you soon—whether in San Francisco or online!
Marco Ciappelli | Sean Martin, CISSP | ITSPmagazine
#RSAC2025 #RSAConference #CyberSecurity #Innovation #Community #ITSPmagazine #TechEvents #InfoSec #GlobalVoices #RSACOnLocation #RSACCommunity #CyberLeadership #DigitalSociety #TechPodcast #SecurityEvents #CyberInsights #GlobalSecurity #OneCommunity #ManyVoices #RSACPreview Ben Waring #tech #technology #infosec
🤝 SPOTLIGHT ON OUR PARTNER!
⚖️ GTI is a #Hungary -based think tank dedicated to researching corruption, collusion, and public procurement inefficiencies.
🔍 In #RESPOND, GTI contributes its expertise in big data, econometrics and qualitative methods to analyze public spending and help build a new repository for stakeholders.
🔗 INFO : https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/
#HorizonEurope #Democracy #DigitalSociety #Research #Collaboration #EUProjects #Transparency #EU #PublicSpending #Data #PartnerSpotlight
Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change
From this feature:
Mark Carrigan, senior lecturer in education at the University of Manchester, says that efficiency gains from better digital technology always carry a risk for interaction between actual humans. The key question, says Carrigan, is “whether those gains can be used to free up people to interact in richer and more engaging ways, or whether they’re used to process more people at a lower cost. Unfortunately it’s almost always the latter.” In other words, do supermarkets use self-service tills so bosses can free up staff to help us in the aisles? Or are they used to save that supermarket time and money? Swipe left for the answer. As Carrigan points out, none of this is the fault of touchscreens per se – it’s all about how organisations decide to use the technology.
Not a real #FASoS town hall meeting --- but still a topic related to real-world challenges in Dutch #highereducation: Students of our BA #DigitalSociety at Maastricht University presented an academic role-play on cryptocurrency donations as a means to back up university finances this morning and also created an invitation poster that participants could use to take notes.
The map shows very clearly the scale of the industry of universities. Yes Walmart is massive but the amount of states/area covered by universities as lead employer is vast. When we think about edtech, and now AI apps sold as standard process for 'digital transformation', we can visualise the billions of dollars generated by this sales pitch. It just prints mountains of money.
#edtech #digitalsociety #academicchatter #academic #ai #genai #employers
⚖️ LIBERA is an Italian network of Civil Society Organizations committed to fighting corruption and mafias to promote social justice and democracy.
🔍 In #RESPOND, LIBERA promotes empowerment actions integrity, ethics and anti-corruption using its expertise and wide network as well as assessments of its own educational program.
🔗 More Info https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner
#RESPONDProject #HorizonEurope #PoliticalCorruption #Democracy #DigitalSociety #AntiCorruption #Research #Collaboration #EUProjects
🤝 Proud to have the Anti-Corruption Research and Education Center (ACREC) in the #RESPOND team! .
📌 #ACREC is the Ukraine’s first dedicated anti-corruption center, combines hands-on research with innovative training programs to tackle corruption at its roots. Through organizing consortium meetings and connecting with a diverse group of stakeholders, ACREC strengthens RESPOND’s mission.
🔗INFO: https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/!
#PoliticalCorruption #Democracy #DigitalSociety #Research #Collaboration
These findings on gender discrimination in advertising algorithms are definitely of interest to my #DigitalSociety students as well as job seekers using #Facebook...
In the #RESPOND project, Bulgaria’s Institute for Global Analytics (IGA) plays a crucial role in supporting democracy and transparency across Central and Eastern Europe. As an independent NGO, IGA combines research and advocacy, focusing on legal and regulatory assessments that shape governance, and analyzing the impact of foreign influence and disinformation.
Learn more: https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/!
#HorizonEurope #PoliticalCorruption #DigitalSociety #AntiCorruption
Spotlight on our partner!
🌍 Meet CNRS, a world’s leading research institutions, bringing its expertise to advance theoretical frameworks on political corruption and developing a dynamic open data repository transparency. CNRS plays a leading role in developing theoretical insights into political corruption and its societal impacts.
More info https://www.eu-respond.eu/partner/
#RESPOND #HorizonEurope #Democracy #DigitalSociety #AntiCorruption #corruption
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