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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Gernot Grabher
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Fachübergreifende Studienangebote
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Q:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Location:
Hamburg
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: Q-Studies Bachelor
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Beschreibung:
We are permanently immersed in it and feel disconnected from the world if it’s not available: the Internet. The Internet in fact has changed the ways in which we communicate, shop and exchange, work and play, search for company and romance, browse global headlines or the menu of the local pub. The Internet has freed us from the limitations of our own small local habitat; at the same time we create new small worlds online by socializing primarily with like-minded people. This seminar explores the ambivalent impacts of the ongoing shift from ‘social collectives’ to ‘online connectives’, and examines the following issues in particular.
Metaphors of the Internet: Of Superhighways, Infrastructures and Clouds.
Digital Machines: Algorithms, Big Data and Predictive Products.
Digital Companies: Platforms, Match-Makers and Monopolies.
Crowd-Sourcing: Peer-Production and Innovation.
Deep Search: The Politics of Information and Surveillance.
Valuation Systems: Recommendation and Algorithmic Filtering.
Identity Curating: Display, Self-Branding and Control.
Intimate Encounters: Tinder, Dating and Impression Management.
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