re:publica 17 - All Sessions

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re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting with 700 participants into a wide-ranging “society conference”, with 8.000 visitors at the anniversary edition re:publica TEN. Representatives of digital culture share their knowledge and decision-making tools, and discuss the future of the information society. Here they can mingle with activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts, and many others. This fosters innovation and creates synergies between net politics, online marketing, network technology, digital society, and (pop) culture. What is more, around 46 percent of re:publica speakers are female – far more than at many other similar events.

  1. 05/10/2017

    Closing Ceremony (de)

    Johnny Haeusler, Tanja Haeusler, Markus Beckedahl, Andreas Gebhard

  2. 05/10/2017

    Closing Ceremony (en)

    Johnny Haeusler, Tanja Haeusler, Markus Beckedahl, Andreas Gebhard

  3. 05/10/2017

    Scraping Art - Mapping the Neuland

    Marlene Ronstedt, Ahmed Alsharif Web scraping is a technique to algorithmically scavenge websites for information, images and videos. The place where this data harvest is taking part is the stack, or the internet. The Stack has become a new site of power, a transnational layer of control. Internet infrastructures allow for new modes of control which act outside of the realm of nation states. Due to its planetary scale infrastructure the Stack holds a governing function. Web scraping can be used as a tool to visualize the constantly changing present of this new territory or the “Neuland,” as Angela Merkel has called it. The “Neuland” is more familiar to us than to conservative politicians beyond 50, but its constant way of updating itself and extending makes it a territory which can never be fully grasped. New technologies, new ways of encryption, faster chips render the old ones obsolete and constantly change the political playing field. The answer to the question of who governs and controls, who sits in the center of the panopticon changes with every new feature. The Internet is no longer an anarchist playground, but it is also still far away from being a unison virtual shopping mall. Scraping a fraction of it to expose its infrastructures shows us the messiness of online power struggles. On the more technical side we will explain how we are using scrapers to get live data, streams and simulations. Here the dinosaur brain of a C programmer meets the simplicity of Python. We will talk about why giving up on the ego-shot you get doing everything yourself C-style is the way forward and how to hack your way into video streaming and using Selenium, an ugly solution rendered beautifully with Open GL.

  4. 05/10/2017

    A tale of two cities: comparing “smart city” approaches

    Vanessa Thomas, Ding Wang Marketing materials and business communications about the ‘smart city’ seem to be everywhere, to the point that ‘smart city’ rhetoric is verging on being an invasive species. But behind the scenes of the snazzy buzzwords and futuristic photos, many city governments are working to adopt, adapt, and implement new and existing digital systems to serve city residents best. In this presentation, we discuss research about public administration of smart city projects in Toronto, Canada, and London, England. We draw on publicly available documentation as well as interviews with key influencers of government strategies—including policy makers, academics, and private sector designers—to dissect how and why city administrators adopted and implemented “smart” technologies in their cities. The presentation describes some of the organisational issues and policy challenges that can occur while deploying “smart” technologies. It highlights some of the complex material, infrastructural, political, social, and environmental challenges that have emerged thus far in London and Toronto’s smart city projects, and challenges some of the simplistic rhetoric about the benefits of “smart” cities and “smart” technologies. The presentation closes with a call for more open discussion of these nuanced issues between and amongst people, public sector employees, academics, and the private sector.

  5. 05/10/2017

    Geh sterben du F°tze (de)

    Laura Sophie Dornheim "Love out loud" ist ein großartiges Motto, aber online herrscht mittlerweile oft "Hate out loud". Gerade die priviligierten Menschen, unter ihnen viele weiße Männer, kennen Shitstorms oft nur vom Hörensagen oder Zusehen. Vielleicht gibt es sogar re:publica Besucher, die sich schon einmal an einem solchen beteiligt haben. Zuviele Frauen, PoC, Muslime oder anderweitig Andersdenkende hingegen haben oft wöchentlich Hasslawinen in ihren sozialen Netzwerken, ihren Maileingängen und sogar dem physischen Briefkasten. Dieser Talk gibt eine Gelegenheit, diesen "Wissensvorsprung" aufzuholen. 30 Minuten lang werden Hassbotschaften vorgelesen und über die Leinwand flackern, die einzelne Menschen erhalten haben. Die Zuhörenden sollen die Möglichkeit bekommen, selbst zu fühlen, was Opfer von Shitstorms fühlen. Denn nur wer das Problem wirklich erkannt und in seinem vollen Ausmaß realisiert hat, kann erfolgreich dagegen ankämpfen. Dazu wird es abschließend ein paar kurze Handlungsempfehlungen geben. Und das wollen wir am Ende doch, gemeinsam dafür sorgen, dass "Love out loud" das Internet dominiert!

  6. 05/10/2017

    Geh sterben du F°tze (en)

    Laura Sophie Dornheim "Love out loud" ist ein großartiges Motto, aber online herrscht mittlerweile oft "Hate out loud". Gerade die priviligierten Menschen, unter ihnen viele weiße Männer, kennen Shitstorms oft nur vom Hörensagen oder Zusehen. Vielleicht gibt es sogar re:publica Besucher, die sich schon einmal an einem solchen beteiligt haben. Zuviele Frauen, PoC, Muslime oder anderweitig Andersdenkende hingegen haben oft wöchentlich Hasslawinen in ihren sozialen Netzwerken, ihren Maileingängen und sogar dem physischen Briefkasten. Dieser Talk gibt eine Gelegenheit, diesen "Wissensvorsprung" aufzuholen. 30 Minuten lang werden Hassbotschaften vorgelesen und über die Leinwand flackern, die einzelne Menschen erhalten haben. Die Zuhörenden sollen die Möglichkeit bekommen, selbst zu fühlen, was Opfer von Shitstorms fühlen. Denn nur wer das Problem wirklich erkannt und in seinem vollen Ausmaß realisiert hat, kann erfolgreich dagegen ankämpfen. Dazu wird es abschließend ein paar kurze Handlungsempfehlungen geben. Und das wollen wir am Ende doch, gemeinsam dafür sorgen, dass "Love out loud" das Internet dominiert!

  7. 05/10/2017

    Diskutieren lernen - Wie die Gesellschaft im post-medialen Zeitalter über ihre Konflikte ins Gespräch kommt (de)

    Christoph Kappes Die zunehmenden Schwierigkeiten mit freier Rede im Internet, vor allem die Zunahme sprachlicher Entgleisungen, Hetze und Mobbing, verdeckt in der Öffentlichkeit ein anderes Problem: Echte Verständigung durch sachliche Auseinandersetzungen und dialogische Klärungen finden in sozialen Netzwerken kaum statt, weil diese formal so strukturiert sind, dass sie zu Entropie (Unordnung und Zerfall) neigen. Zugleich bespielt die klassische Medienöffentlichkeit den Diskursraum immer schlechter, weil sie durch Eigenlogik (z.B. Aufmerksamkeitskampf, Klickmaximierung und Schnelligkeit) weniger Authentizität, Nachdenklichkeit und Positionsvielfalt zeigt. Der einzige Weg aus dem Schlamassel: die Zivilgesellschaft muss nun selber lernen, wie sie fair und pluralistisch Debatten führt, und einen Weg dahin könnten die neuen kleinen Demokratie-Initiativen wie Schmalbart zeigen.

  8. 05/10/2017

    Digital Commons, Urban Struggles and the Right to the City?

    Andreas Unteidig, Marco Clausen Who has access? Who designs? Who uses and who profits of collaboratively produced content? In this talk, we want to argue that these questions are not only equally relevant to the physical as well as the digital space, but increasingly interdependent. This is powerfully exemplified in many prevailing smart city visions, in which highly profitable dreams of streamlining, control and efficiency are being cultivated – predominantly by a handful of global enterprises. Within the European MAZI-Network, we are querying alternatives to these corporate, top-down implemented and centralized futures. We seek to support and amplify these alternatives and we work on the development of counter-proposals, by connecting academia with urban activism in four different pilot studies across Europe. In Berlin, the Design Research Lab of the University of the Arts is partnering with the Nachbarschaftsakademie (Neighborhood Academy) within Prinzessinnengärten: At Berlin‘s Moritzplatz, we are testing how affordable and open hardware together with open source knowledge can act as a toolkit, enabling local communities to create their very own “internet outside the internet”, and to employ network technology beyond the prescribed application of Facebook or Google. To learn from practice, we are developing a locally constrained, community owned and maintained WIFI network with a set of custom designed applications. With this, we aim at providing a network for exchange, information and participation, and ultimately at the  amplification of Berlin‘s critical urban practice through technology. By applying the Neighborhood Academy‘s core concept of “collective learning”, this process is decisively participatory and involves a wide range of actors and initiatives that are engaged in the struggles for the right to the city – both in spatial and in digital terms. With this, we go beyond the mere development of technology and open up spaces for discussion on the interdependencies of Digital Commons, Urban Struggles and the Right to the City.

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re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting with 700 participants into a wide-ranging “society conference”, with 8.000 visitors at the anniversary edition re:publica TEN. Representatives of digital culture share their knowledge and decision-making tools, and discuss the future of the information society. Here they can mingle with activists, scientists, hackers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, journalists, social media and marketing experts, and many others. This fosters innovation and creates synergies between net politics, online marketing, network technology, digital society, and (pop) culture. What is more, around 46 percent of re:publica speakers are female – far more than at many other similar events.

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