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Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E06 (Français): Exploration des défis des femmes* dans le paysage numérique de la Mauritanie
Cet épisode de "Exploring Digital Spheres" nous emmène en Mauritanie, un pays d'Afrique du Nord-Ouest, pour explorer l'intersection entre technologie, genre et migration.
Au cours de ce séjour, nous avons eu la chance de rencontrer deux femmes réfugiées remarquables, Fadimata Aicha Walet Mohamed Issa et Moueny Abdoulwahab, qui nous ont parlé de leur expérience en tant que femmes dans l'industrie de la technologie en Mauritanie.
Toutes deux racontent leurs histoires personnelles depuis le Mali et l'Afrique centrale vers la Mauritanie, soulignant les défis particuliers qu'elles affrontent en tant que femmes r...2024-08-2639 minExploring Digital SpheresS02 E06: Exploring the challenges of women* in Mauritania's digital landscape
This episode of Exploring Digital Spheres takes us to Mauritania, a country in Northwest Africa, to explore the intersection of technology, gender, and migration. It features in-depth interviews with two remarkable refugee women, Fadimata Aicha Walet Mohamed Issa and Moueny Abdoulwahab, who are talking about their experiences as women in the tech industry in Mauritania.
Both share their personal journeys from Mali and Central Africa to Mauritania, highlighting the unique challenges they face as refugee women navigating a new digital landscape. With internet access primarily limited to WhatsApp, Facebook, Tiktok and despite mobile internet being a scarcity, people have...2024-08-2243 minExploring Digital SpheresS02 Spezialfolge: Schule neu denken – mit dem Werkzeugkasten “Making sense of the future”
Alexander Triebsees spricht in dieser Folge mit der Politikwissenschaftlerin Katharina Mosene und der Demokratiebildungsexpertin Hanna-Sophie Bollmann, die an der Didaktisierung der Toolbox für die Sekundarstufe I mitarbeitete und bereits Erfahrungen im Einsatz mit dieser sammeln konnte.
Welche neuen Entwicklungen sind im Lehrbetrieb zu beobachten und wie können offene Lehrmethoden, wie der vom HIIG entwickelte, frei zugängliche Werkzeugkasten, Schüler*innen und Lehrkräften einen Mehrwert bieten? Auf welche Kompetenzen ist in der Schulbildung zukünftig vor allem zu achten – gerade vor dem Hintergrund von KI, anhaltender globaler Krisen und nötiger Medienkompetenz? Wie sehen die Chancen u...2024-06-0340 min
DigiKompetenz Podcast146: Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Jansen – Auf dem Weg zu sozio-technologischen Lösungen: Innovationsansätze neu denkenUnser Gast in dieser Folge ist Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Jansen, Professor für Urbane Innovation an der Universität der Künste und Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet & Gesellschaft (HIIG) Berlin, Geschäftsführer »Gesellschaft für Urbane Mobilität BICICLI« und deren Mobilitätskonzeptberatung MOND.org.
Seit 1999 ist Stephan regelmäßig als Visiting Scholar an der Stanford University und fungiert als wissenschaftlicher Berater für verschiedene Bundesministerien und das Bundeskanzleramt. In den letzten Jahren hatte er darüber hinaus Vorstands- und Beiratspositionen bei renommierten Unternehmen wie Audi, BASF, Bayer, Caritas, Deutsche Teleko...2024-04-2651 min
Was geht - was bleibt? Zeitgeist. Debatten. Kultur.KI-FakeNews in Bild und Ton: Droht uns die Infokalypse?
Mitten drin im „Informationskrieg“ – nach dem Anschlag der Hamas in Israel hat die Menge an Fake-News in den Netzwerken eine nie da gewesene Qualität erreicht. Nachrichten werden für die einen selbst Kriegswerkzeug dank Manipulation.
Von angeblichen Kidnapping-Videos palästinensischer Mädchen, über aus dem Kontext gerissene ägyptische Fallschirmspringer bis hin zu Cristiano Ronaldo angeblich mit einer palästinensischen Flagge im Stadion. Das stellt den Journalismus vor neue Herausforderungen, sagt Joscha Weber, Journalist beim Fact-Checking Deutsche Welle: “So eine Flut an aus dem Kontext gerissenen Falschinformationen wie wir sie derzeit erleben, hat es so auch im Ukrainekrieg noch nicht gegeben. Wir ko...2023-10-2027 min
Digitaler SalonGroßbaustelle DatenByte für Byte zur Smart City
Intelligente Ampeln, effizientere Busfahrpläne und automatisierte, energiesparende Straßenbeleuchtung – digitale Daten könnten viele Bereiche des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens verbessern. Diese Daten liegen verteilt bei Unternehmen, Kommunen und auch bei Bürger*innen. Berücksichtigt man deren unterschiedliche Interessen, wird deutlich, wie schwierig es ist, Daten verschiedenster Quellen gemeinwohlorientiert einzusetzen. Wer bekommt wann welche Daten? Welche Interessen stehen sich hier überhaupt gegenüber und welche Spannungen entstehen dadurch? Könnten wir nicht alle profitieren, wenn der Zugang zu Daten allen Menschen gleich zur Verfügung stehen würde? Warum Daten bislang nicht...2023-06-291h 02
Digitaler SalonFaktenfieberWissenschaft als Fels in der Brandung des Unwissens
Fakten können wehtun: insbesondere, wenn sie pessimistische Prognosen ergeben, falsche Aussagen widerlegen und politische Entscheidungen infrage stellen. Ganze Forschungszweige wie die Klima- oder Medizinforschung werden deswegen immer wieder zur Zielscheibe von Hass und Kritik. Die einzelnen Forschenden sind dabei oft unvorbereitet auf die Gefahren, die eine öffentliche Kommunikation in den Medien mit sich bringt. Gleichzeitig erwarten wir immer mehr von ihnen, dass sie sich in öffentliche Diskurse einmischen und uns ihre Erkenntnisse zur Verfügung stellen. Denn wir brauchen die Wissenschaft, um uns in gesellschaftlichen Krisensituationen zu orientieren und Lösunge...2023-06-011h 00
Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E05: Exploring Mexico’s sustainable entrepreneurs fight for climate change
In the last episode of Season 2 we visit Mexico City to explore the potentials and challenges of sustainable digital entrepreneurship to mitigate climate change.
In February 2023 Christian Grauvogel, project coordinator of the SET Project and Paul Vilchez, research fellow at the HIIG and author of a discussion paper on sustainable entrepreneurship in Mexico travelled to Mexico City to learn more about how entrepreneurs are navigating different challenges in the ecosystem. They spoke with Nadia Stand, Co-Founder and Impact catalyzer of Sakbé Hub and Juan Pablo Escobar, CEO and co-founder at Civica Digital to find out how you c...2023-05-1739 min
Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E04: Exploring Indonesia's digital solution for rainforest protection
The growing importance of digital technologies for rainforest protection is accompanied by profound challenges related to their deployment and use.
How can digital skills and technologies be trained and implemented in remote regions where the rainforest is of particular importance for local development?
In this episode we discuss with Dr. Roeland Hemsteede his findings from a study on rainforest protection & digital solutions. The study centres around Open Access to relevant data (e.g. from satellites), digital literacy & funding for tech-based rainforest conservation projects. We also interviewed Florian Reimer, Chief Climate Officer at Koltiva, an agri tech company...2023-05-0438 min
Digitaler SalonNur mal kurz die Welt retten?Die Hürden grüner Innovationskraft
Wenn es um den Klimawandel geht, fokussiert sich die öffentliche Debatte oft auf die Rolle von Konzernen, Staaten und Konsumentinnen. Weit weniger Aufmerksamkeit bekommen hingegen Startups, die oft Pioniere beim Einsatz neuer, nachhaltiger Dienstleistungen und Produkte sind. Reicht für den Klimaschutz eine passive Schadensreduzierung mit Klimazertifikaten & Co. oder sind wir auf aktive Ideen und Entwicklungen von Unternehmerinnen angewiesen? In der April-Ausgabe des Digitalen Salons nehmen wir Nachhaltigkeit im Unternehmertum in den Fokus. Welche Chancen und Risiken ergeben sich hierbei und wo sind den Möglichkeiten privater Akteur*innen Grenzen gesetzt? Und wie überwin...2023-05-031h 02
Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E03: Exploring Kenya's gig work opportunities
Digital platforms are fundamentally changing the world of work. While the platform economy opens immense opportunities for flexible, gainful and convenient entrepreneurship, the precarious livelihoods of workers and service providers often remain unaddressed.
Right after our Multi-stakeholder dialogue in November 2022 in Nairobi, SET-researchers Marie Blüml and Fabian Stephany talked with Tom Kwanya, the main author of our study on gig platform regulations in Kenya, and Teresios Bundi, gig work researcher and member of Kenyan gig workers union to discuss possible pathways towards a fairer online platform economy in Kenya. Find out which opportunities gig work can offer and w...2023-04-2734 min
Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E02: Exploring Kosovo's sustainable spatial developments
In this episode we shine a light on the transformation of a former military camp into the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) Prizren in Kosovo, an aspiring hub for innovation, economic development and digital transformation in the city and wider region. We discuss the connection between spatial development, innovation and digitalisation at the ITP with local experts.
In June and October 2022, Christian Grauvogel travelled to the former KFOR camp to investigate the spatial potentials of the ITP. As part of our research project we explored how the sustainable transformation of the park could foster the innovation ecosystem...2023-04-2438 min
Exploring Digital SpheresS02 E01: Exploring Benin's rising digital economy
At the SENIA, Benin’s first AI conference, our team had the opportunity to talk to local experts about the possibilities of digitalisation for the improvement of the agricultural sector and its working conditions.
Christian Grauvogel, Marie Blüml and Georg von Richthofen travelled to Benin in July 2022 to discuss the opportunities and risks of applying Artificial Intelligence in sustainable entrepreneurship in Benin and Francophone West and Central Africa. They had the opportunity to interview Seth Ayim, operational manager of the international NGO TechnoServe, and Theodore Gboyou, data scientist and regional manager of the digital platform Digital Rice Africa in...2023-04-0432 min
Chaos Computer Club - archive feedBetween Benin & Berlin: Research & Impact at the Intersection of Sustainability & Digitalization (EN (bub2022)How can digital innovations be used to tackle sustainability challenges in the global south? How can research contribute to developing locally sensitive solutions? In this session, members of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society share insights from the Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Global Digital Transformation project that spans 10 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
While sustainability challenges such as climate change, desertification, decent work and inequality are global in nature, their implications are particularly severe in the global south, where governments, international cooperation and development organizations are increasingly looking for ways to leverage digital technologies to address these challenges...2022-10-0139 min
EduFutures - Die Zukunft der BildungAnne Lammers: Gemeinwohl im digitalen Zeitalter - was braucht es dafür?Schwerpunkt: Transformatives Lernen im ländlichen Raum
In enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Digitales Europa e.V. hat das iRights.Lab die Studie "Gemeinwohl im digitalen Zeitalter. Engagement und Ehrenamt zukunftsfähig gestalten" erstellt. Gefördert wurde die Studie von der Deutschen Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt (DSEE). Inhaltlich geht es darin um die Frage, was Gemeinwohl im digitalen Zeitalter bedeutet und welche Handlungsempfehlungen für Engagement und Ehrenamt sich daraus ergeben.
Anne Lammers ist Co-Autorin der Studie und arbeitet für das iRights.Lab. Das iRights.Lab ist ein unabhängiger Think Tank zur Entwicklung von Str...2022-04-0648 min
Der IT und Rechtspodcast(6) Informatiker Dr. Jörg Pohle, wird die Informatik die Juristin/ den Juristen ersetzen?In unserer 6. Folge spricht Nima (Der Jurist) mit Dr. Jörg Pohle über die Zukunft der juristischen Disziplin, IT und Recht Schnittstellen, die Geschichte der Rechtsinformatik, Legal Tech und unser Rechtssystem. Dr. Jörg Pohle ist PostDoc am Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) und leitet das Forschungsprogramm "Daten, Akteure, Infrastrukturen". Jörg Pohle studierte Jura, Politikwissenschaft und Informatik. Ein pointierter IT- und Rechtstalk! Timeline: 2:00 – Rechtskybernetik, Rechtsinformatik oder Legal Tech? 11:00 – Was ist Legal Tech für einen Techie 15:00 – Zeitalter des Technizismus? 23:00 – Juristen ohne IT-Kompetenz? 31:00 – Ausbildungsupdate? 34:00 – Widersprüche zwischen Informatik und Rechtswissenschaft 39:00 – Technische Auslegungsmethode 43:00 – Primat des Rechts in der Blockchain? 49:00 – Wann wi...2021-02-111h 00
Exploring Digital Spheres"CoRisk Index"An economic indicator of industry-specific risk assessments related to Covid-19
In a collaborative project researchers from Oxford and Berlin developed an index as the first economic indicator of industry-specific risk assessments related to Covid-19, based on financial disclosures of US companies. The index can provide valuable real-time information about economic risks associated with the pandemic, and it has already been featured in Oxford University News, the Washington Post, and the Wirtschaftswoche.
In today's special episode we welcome the data scientists Dr. Fabian Stephany and Dr. Fabian Braesemann from the University of Oxford. The two speak with HIIG Ph.D. student...2020-06-0218 min
EuroparamaTWENTYFORTYWhy should it be unscientific to think about the future? Why shouldn’t we be allowed to take a critical scientific stance in thinking about the future? There is no contradiction in being scientific and turning towards the future—towards what is not yet known. Wouldn’t it be scientific, in the best sense of the word, if researchers examined utopias and investigated, with the best available knowledge, why they cannot become true? The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) offered scientists a platform for imagining utopias beyond the usual research. The visionar...2020-05-0736 min
Exploring Digital SpheresDigital MomentumLorenz Grünewald-Schukalla on the music industry in the digital age
How do you build Digital Monumentum? How do you stay visible? As the music industry is changing, big music labels are reinventing their branding strategy. This podcast explores the resulting consequences in terms of power-relations and digital flows.
Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla is a project manager in the project team Third Engagement Report, where he deals with questions of civic engagement in the digital world. Besides that he is researching the digital mediatization of music business and music culture. Therefore his Ph.D. project is about the ch...2020-03-0922 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAI technology for healthcareJulia Hoxha on AI-based medical assistance
HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss is talking to Julia Hoxha about the collection and monitoring of medical data. Julia Hoxha is a former postdoctoral research scientist in Medical Informatics at Columbia University and co-founder and CEO of Zana, an AI-based health assistant. It is available via app, wearables and a platform, that can directly answer questions about health via voice input and enables continuous monitoring of medical factors for both patient and doctors. The episode is part of the "Demystifying AI in Entrepreneurship" project at HIIG.
In this episode:
find out...2020-02-0625 min
Exploring Digital SpheresHuman rights onlineWolfgang Schulz on the role of intermediaries
Wolfgang Schulz studied law and mathematics and is now an expert on media law and algorithmic decision taking. He is the director of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg and also advises the European Council on intermediaries – such as social media platforms, search engines and micro blogging services – and human rights. In this episode, he explains the difficulties of regulating intermediaries that increasingly can be seen as hybrids between state and society.
In this episode:
More about Wolfgang Schulz on our website: hiig...2019-12-1023 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAutomised paper workUli Erxleben on AI and the human in the loop
HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss interviews Uli Erxleben (Hypatos) on how exactly the startup uses deeplearning automation technology for document processing and how this frees up some of our time. The episode is part of the "Demystifying AI in Entrepreneurship" project at HIIG.
In this episode:
find out more about the Demystifying AI in Entrepreneurship project
and articles on our blog about companies using AI
2019-11-2621 min
Exploring Digital SpheresDigital civil disobedienceTheresa Züger on resistance in the digital age
What do Edward Snowden, Aaron Swartz and Phil Zimmermann have in common? This episode is all about whistleblowers, activists and other people deliberately breaking the law for a specific ideological conviction. What are the parallels to for example the civil rights movement in the US, Ghandi, Rosa Parks or the anti-nuclear energy protests in Germany. And what's new?
Theresa Züger, researcher at HIIG, talks with Wouter about her research insights into practices and characteristics of digital disobedience. Listen to her sharing stories of encryption, hacking and whistleblowing. ...2019-11-1223 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAutonomous weaponsFrank Sauer on how to regulate autonomous weapon systems
Suppose they gave war and nobody has to come. The idea of autonomous weapons is tempting for some and troubling for most, because it raises many ethical issues. Yet, what exactly do we mean when saying 'autonomous weapon systems' (AWS) – does it mean we're really taking the human out of the loop?
Thomas C. Bächle and Frank Sauer met at HIIG to talk about the question of how to regulate these systems, how China or the UK deal with this, what the future of weapons looks like, wha...2019-10-2941 min
Exploring Digital SpheresOrganised stupidityBenedikt Fecher on the impact of science
Are universities the best option we have?
In this episode, Benedikt Fecher and Wouter talk about this question to discuss what research actually is and how we create knowledge in our society today. Science is not only about research and education, but more and more about trying to bridge the gap between scientific results and society. Also they speak about increasing science's actual impact on society and HIIG's recent project "twentyforty", an essay competition on the future of digital society in 2040.
In this episode:
Benedikt Fecher
his...2019-10-1420 min
Exploring Digital SpheresWelches Problem löst eigentlich Digitalisierung?Armin Nassehi über Digitalität und Alternativen
In dieser Folge geht es um die großen Fragen unserer Zeit: die Komplexität in der modernen Gesellschaft, wie Facebook Facebook geworden ist und ob es überhaupt vorstellbare Alternativen zur Digitalisierung gibt.
Die digitale Technologie ist jung, aber das grundlegende Problem, dass sie zu lösen versucht, ist alt. Das ist die These, die Armin Nassehi in seinem Buch „Muster“ formuliert. HIIG-Direktorin Jeanette Hofmann diskutiert mit Nassehi, worin dieses Problem genau besteht und ob wir Digitalisierung eventuell auch anders verstehen können.
In dieser Folge:
Armin Nassehi (z...2019-10-0237 min
Exploring Digital SpheresGoverning the internetChristian Katzenbach on rule-making in the digital space
HIIG researcher Christian Katzenbach speaks about the responsibility of platforms and the content that they host, regulative mechanisms as well as the widely discussed EU directive on copyright better known for its proposed upload filter and Article 13. Also in the conversation with Wouter Bernhard, they discuss Zuckerberg's hearing in the US as well as the role of AI for content moderation.
In this episode:
The research program "The evolving digital society"
Discover Christian Katzenbach's recent publications
and his presentation during LNDW 2019 "Overhyped, but real – Die soziale Konstruktion von Kü...2019-09-1719 min
Exploring Digital SpheresHolding internet companies accountableNathalie Maréchal on Ranking Digital Rights
By ranking the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet.
Nathalie Maréchal, Senior Research Analyst at Ranking Digital Rights, talked with Frédéric Dubois about the wrong doings of Internet and telecommunication companies such as facebook, apple or Deutsche Telekom. Learn about free basics and Myanmar and how RDR is rethinking human rights – maneuvering from only looking at individual rights to understanding the collective consequences of the companies doings.
In this...2019-09-0324 min
Exploring Digital SpheresFor the good of the internetUta Meier-Hahn about those who keep the internet running
The internet is currently built of more than 60.000 autonomous systems. Without connectivity among those, the internet simply doesn't exist. Associated HIIG researcher Uta Meier-Hahn looks in her research at the question, how network operators, such as Netflix, Youtube and Deutsche Telekom jointly provide internet connectivity. Since they constantly have to negotiate whether to cooperate or compete with each other, a very particular form of connectivity economics exists.
In this episode, Wouter goes on a journey into the very depth of the internet. Together with Uta Meier-Hahn, they explore...2019-07-0222 min
Exploring Digital Spheres(K)I verstehen?Dirk Baecker: Wie die Systemtheorie auf Künstliche Intelligenz schaut
Ein automatischer Staubsauger überfährt eine Katze. Ist der Hersteller oder der Besitzer Schuld? Luhmann-Schüler und Systemtheoretiker Dirk Baecker meint: Vielleicht einfach die Katze? Mit Thomas C. Bächle spricht Dirk Baecker über „Künstliche Intelligenz“ und wie wir die derzeitigen Entwicklungen aus systemtheoretischer Sicht verstehen können. Schlussendlich geht es um die Frage, was Intelligenz überhaupt ist und was die systemtheoretische Forschung leisten kann.
In dieser Folge:
Dirk Baeckers Vortrag bei der Redenreihe des HIIG und der bpb
Baecker: 4.0 oder Die Lücke die der Rechner lä2019-06-0433 min
Exploring Digital SpheresGDPR revisitedMax von Grafenstein about the legal challenge of protecting data
This week its the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) first anniversary. Wouter speaks with HIIG-researcher and data protection expert Max von Grafenstein on the difficulties of data protection and his research on the innovation potential of the GDPR.
Follow this exciting episode on how Max – once a film maker – became a lawyer specialised on data protection and the GDPR. If you like the conversation, please rate us on iTunes.
In this episode:
Max von Grafenstein's thesis on the GDPR
Website of the Initiative Innovation and 2019-05-2122 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAdvertising: Just statistics?Marcel Pirlich on AI in online marketing
Online advertisement companies have been using statistical models for many years. HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss interviews Marcel Pirlich (Adspert) on how exactly the startup uses AI technologies in online marketing and how this results in a successful business model. The episode is part of the "Demystifying AI in Entrepreneurship" project at HIIG.
In this episode:
More on the company adspert
Jessica's take on AI in online marketing on the Digital society blog
2019-05-0718 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAfrican digital entrepreneurshipNicolas Friederici on tech businesses in Kenia, Ghana and beyond
"Silicon Savannah", "Africa is rising" – much attention is directed at Africa as a continent of economic opportunity and growth. HIIG researcher Nicolas Friederici stresses that relative to the hype and hope, things are not that easy and we shouldn't limit our focus on how to copy silicon valley models.
Friederici has been doing field research in different African innovation hubs while working for the world bank and the Geonet project of the Oxford Internet Institute and is now researching at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HI...2019-04-1620 min
Exploring Digital SpheresSmart CitizensMarleen Stikker on the fairphone, fablabs and unleashing technologies' potentials
"People think it’s inherent of the internet that you lose your privacy, but it’s not, it’s based on the business model of those companies.” – Marleen Stikker speaks about how the fairphone was invented, what fablabs are for and how we eventually should get involved ourselves to decide what to do with disruptive technology. This is an episode for smart citizens!
In this episode:
WAAG: https://waag.org/en/about-us
Fairphone: https://www.fairphone.com/
Fablabs: https://www.fablabs.io/
2019-03-2625 min
Exploring Digital SpheresDemystifying AIJessica Schmeiss on AI startups in Germany
Germany is at the top of its game researching Artificial Intelligence. Many a digital product launched today is made possible by services developed through German research. But when it comes to actually making a digital product itself, Germany seems to be lacking behind. When did you hear of the last German Facebook, Uber or Amazon? Today’s episode is on the question why Germany tends to find it difficult to make the translation between researching AI and creating a successful AI startup. We’ll be speaking with Jessica Schmeiss, doctoral researcher at the...2019-03-0521 min
Exploring Digital SpheresIch, einfach außerordentlichAndreas Reckwitz über Einzigartigkeit in der Internetgesellschaft
Wie kann dein Selfie noch origineller sein? Der Versuch, immer und überall authentisch und unverwechselbar zu sein, ist keine Modeerscheinung. Das meint zumindest der Soziologe Andreas Reckwitz. Mit HIIG-Forscher Thomas Christian Bächle diskutiert er, wie neben der Standardisierung der modernen Gesellschaft die Einzigartigkeit von Subjekten und Kollektiven im gegenwärtigen Fokus steht.
Über die Theorie der Singularität – die behauptet, dass das Einzigartige in der spätmodernen Gesellschaft dominiert – wurde bereits viel diskutiert. Ob diese Beobachtung nur für die heutige Zeit gilt, welche Rezeption Reckwitz' Werk hervorrief und vor allem, w...2019-02-1936 min
Exploring Digital SpheresSmart bureaucracy?Untangling AI in administration
Christian Djeffal advocates for creative thinking around artificial intelligence in public administration. Djeffal has a background in law and invests his time thinking about sustainable ways for using AI inside of governmental organisations. He believes that AI can help public administrations cut costs and resources, and re-allocate them to be of better service to its citizens.
More on Christian Djeffal
https://negz.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NEGZ-Kurzstudie-3-KuenstlIntelligenz-20181113-digital.pdf
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wissen/berliner-weltverbesserer-er-entwickelt-leitlinien-fuer-kuenstliche-intelligenz-29733484
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-_mhMye6E
https...2019-02-0518 min
Exploring Digital SpheresBad content, good contentJulia Krüger and Amélie Heldt on different ways of moderation
Often we don't see the same content on the internet as others do. Content moderation is responsible for the way we scroll through social media and consume videos on the web. This raises crucial questions: What is good content? Should algorithms do all the moderation for us? How do we decide what should be deleted? For example, what is hate speech, and what is terrorist content? Are there ways to structure content moderation differently, while still maintaining democratic values?
Julia Krüger, an editor for Net...2019-01-2222 min
Exploring Digital SpheresSqueaky-clean internetMartin Riedl about the well-being of content moderators
Wouter met Martin Riedl in the middle of Berlin to discuss how platforms keep the internet "clean" from undesirable content – but what is undesirable? And what does it mean for moderators when they click through thousand of graphic images?
To assure that the content on social media platforms adheres to the standards set by those platforms thousand of content moderators decide everyday which content should be deleted. Martin Riedl, former fellow and currently associated researcher at the HIIG, is interested in the labour conditions and well-being of those workers. In...2019-01-0817 min
Exploring Digital SpheresAre we colonised by data?Nick Couldry on media rituals and data colonialism
Nick Couldry has recently coined the term 'data colonialism' in order to highlight continuities from colonialism’s historic appropriation of resources to today's datafication of everyday life.
Couldry, professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), visited us in Berlin for his lecture "Colonised by data". HIIG researcher Thomas Christian Bächle met with Couldry – who once was his professor at Goldsmiths College in London eleven years ago – for a talk on the digital society. In this episode, we learn about C...2018-12-1826 min
Exploring Digital SpheresRithm of algoBjörn Scheuermann on algorithms and trust in machines
In this second inside episode, Wouter dives deeper into the universe of algorithms in order to clean up the mess of buzz words we are confronted with on a daily basis. Did you also wonder why certain videos pop up in your timeline that seem most unlikely you ever wanted to see them? How do computers recognise objects and animals on photos?
Nothing but statistics
In an insightful conversation with Wouter, HIIG director Björn Scheuermann tells us about his research as a computer scientist and in...2018-12-0420 min
Exploring Digital SpheresFake news and electionsHow researchers tackle the problem of information manipulation strategies during election campaigns
Amélie Heldt studied French and German Law at the universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre and Potsdam. After passing the first state examination, she completed a supplementary training programme in Design Thinking at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam and worked in the legal department of a market-leading music label. She completed her two-year legal clerkship at the superior Court of Justice in Berlin and was working amongst others for the Stiftung Oper in Berlin (Berlin Opera Foundation), in the media and copyright area of the law firm Raue L...2018-11-2022 min
Exploring Digital SpheresFiltered awayRike Maier on remixes and upload filters
Ever worried about not being able to put your video up on Youtube? More than hundred hours of videos are uploaded every minute. So how do platforms make sure people obey the rules? How to make sure this content is not stolen? They use automatic filters, which have caused some nasty side effects.
Rike Maier is copyright researcher and associated at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Wouter Bernhardt interviewed Rike about her research and what upload filter exactly do.
More about what Rike does: https...2018-11-0607 min
Exploring Digital SpheresTrailer: Exploring digital spheresIntroducing a brand-new podcast for internet researchers and digital mavericks
This is Exploring Digital Spheres.
My name is Wouter Bernhardt and together with the HIIG and its researchers I’ll be diving deep into a world of coding, rating, nudging, and filtering. Asking questions on how our digital society works and what the future might look like.
In our first episodes you'll get to know…
Rike Maier and her findings on remixes and upload filter as recently discussed in the European parliament.
Research on content moderators, who work under harsh conditions much like you migh...2018-11-0201 min
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Ich mache ja jetzt schon einige Jahre Radio, aber es gibt immer noch Dinger aus der Abteilung „Das erste Mal“ zum Beispiel Feature. Die Idee so ein Feature1 zu machen, trug ich schon eine Weile mit mir herum. Wie alle Dinge, die irgendwie toll sind, aber die man doch aus Respekt vor sich herschiebt, habe ich lange eine Ausrede gefunden: „Ich hab kein richtiges Thema.“
Das änderte sich schlagartig, als wir bei Breitband Jeanette Hofmann vom Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft zur Facebooks Initiative „Free Basics“...2016-06-1632 minrichter.fmDiebstahl, Inspiration und das juristische Bauchgefühlhttpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBtfuJVU88Q
Ich mache ja jetzt schon einige Jahre Radio, aber es gibt immer noch Dinger aus der Abteilung „Das erste Mal“ zum Beispiel Feature. Die Idee so ein Feature ((also ein Radiostück über eine halbe Stunde oder länger)) zu machen, trug ich schon eine Weile mit mir herum. Wie alle Dinge, die irgendwie toll sind, aber die man doch aus Respekt vor sich herschiebt, habe ich lange eine Ausrede gefunden: „Ich hab kein richtiges Thema.“
Das änderte sich schlagartig, als wir bei Breitband Jeanette Hofmann vom Alexander vo...2016-06-1632 minrichter.fm » alle podcastsDiebstahl, Inspiration und das juristische Bauchgefühlhttpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBtfuJVU88Q
Ich mache ja jetzt schon einige Jahre Radio, aber es gibt immer noch Dinger aus der Abteilung „Das erste Mal“ zum Beispiel Feature. Die Idee so ein Feature ((also ein Radiostück über eine halbe Stunde oder länger)) zu machen, trug ich schon eine Weile mit mir herum. Wie alle Dinge, die irgendwie toll sind, aber die man doch aus Respekt vor sich herschiebt, habe ich lange eine Ausrede gefunden: „Ich hab kein richtiges Thema.“
Das änderte sich schlagartig, als wir bei Breitband Jeanette Hofmann vom Alexander vo...2016-06-1632 min