Schlagwort: Überwachung

Mareile Kaufmann: Hacking as a Practice of Disputing Online Surveillance

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Dienstag, 11. Juni 2019 14:00-16:00 Uhr
Weizenbaum-Institut, Raum A104-A105  
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Mareile Kaufmann will first introduce current debates about hackers as interrogators of surveillance. Instead of portraying hacking as a simple counterculture she seeks to complicate dichotomies of power vs. resistance, online vs. offline, and technological system vs. social practice. Based on qualitative interviews she introduces the diverse sometimes ambiguous hacking practices that question online surveillance. She will then develop the concept of dispute as capturing exactly these multiplicities. The small, but constitutive dynamics of disputing online surveillance not only create political momentum but call for a rethinking of the totality of surveillance metaphors used today. The talk is part of a larger project that explores dataveillance and answers to dataveillance.

Alexander Weiß: Chinese and Indian Perceptions of the Digital Challenge for Democracy

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Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2018
Weizenbaum-Institut, Raum A104  
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What should a democracy know about citizens? While in times of digital surveillance and Big Data we may need new answers to this question, the general relation between digital transformation and democracy as object of democratic theory remains complex – on the one hand for the conceptual diversity of ‘digital transformation’ but also and additionally because ‘democracy’ itself is understood and conceptualized differently. In his talk, Alexander Weiß showed that the spectrum of understandings and meanings of democracy is even broader than we know from Western discourses: Democratic thought specifically reacting to regional and historical constellations is existing in all regions of the world, e.g., democratic thought from India and China has evolved in rich and diverse traditions. Before this horizon his question was: How is digital transformation perceived, framed, and evaluated in Chinese and Indian theories of democracy?