| Time: | November 28, 2019, 6:00 p.m. (CET) |
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| Venue: | University library Stuttgart Holzgartenstr. 16 70174 Stuttgart |
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There is currently much public discussion on the topic of the influence of digitalization on democracy. This lecture continues this discussion and raises the question of whether it is even useful to describe the relationship between digitalization and democracy as a causal relationship. One alternative would be to understand digital media as Andreas Reckwitz understands it – as a practice space where society can experiment with the possibilities of democratic transformation.
Prof. Jeanette Hofman is research director at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Her work focuses on the relationship between digitalization and democracy, the creation of network policy as a political field in Germany and the role of trust in global regulation of the internet.
This public lecture opens the conference “Demokratische Wissenschafts- und Technikgestaltung: Neue Herausforderungen, Schwierigkeiten, Möglichkeiten und Visionen”, organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies (ZIRIUS). https://www.zirius.uni-stuttgart.de