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22.04.2021

Homo Digitalis: Critical Perspectives on Digital Society

With a evening lecture by Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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  • Date: 22.04.2021, 15.30 - 19.00 CET
  • Place: Online on Zoom
  • Typology: Online Conference
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“I cannot get rid of the ghosts I have called.”

Like Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, we sometimes stand helpless before the countless possibilities of our virtual world. With digitalization we have created a powerful tool – now we ourselves are becoming the object, our data the product of this revolution. Until the turn of the century, life in the gigabit society was still accompanied by broad euphoria. With the abolition of the classic sender-receiver model, the possibility for everyone to communicate with the whole world and a new culture of participation through the Internet, one hoped for a more democratic society. Now however, the digital space has revealed itself not only as the extended arm of existing social conflicts and threats, but partly also as their origin. Microtargeting, negative campaigning, social bots, troll armies and the attention economy in social media seem to threaten democracy. Questions of privacy, free speech, questions of data protection and the future of employment loom large. Solutions are needed so that society may deal appropriately with these new technologies that pose a potential danger to our political system.

Together with experts from technology, communication, business and law, Eurac Research’s Center for Advanced Studies sheds light on the Homo Digitalis.

Programme

15.30 |Welcome and Opening
Roland Psenner, Präsident Eurac Research
Harald Pechlaner, Head of the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research

15.50 | Digitale Zukunft - Heiliger Gral oder Büchse der Pandora? (DE)
Petra Grimm, Leiterin des Instituts für Digitale Ethik, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart

16.15 | Netzsicherheit und Netzgesellschaft im Zeitalter des Internet der Dinge: Technischer Datenschutz und Smart Home (DE)
Frederik Möllers, Rechtsinformatiker, Professur für Rechtsinformatik, Universität des Saarlandes

16.40 | Break

16.55 | Dati e conoscenza in Intelligenza Artificiale - Due facce della stessa medaglia? (IT)
Diego Calvanese, Professore di Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano

17.20 | Erwachsen werden: Für eine Gesellschaftspolitik der Digitalisierung (DE)
Harald Welzer, Rat für Digitale Ökologie, Berlin

17.45 | Break

18.00 | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (EN)
Shoshana Zuboff, Emerita Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School

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Petra Grimm, Leiterin des Instituts für Digitale Ethik, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart

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Frederik Möllers, Rechtsinformatiker, Professur für Rechtsinformatik, Universität des Saarlandes

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Diego Calvanese, Professore di Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano

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Harald Welzer, Rat für Digitale Ökologie, Berlin

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