東京大学大学院 情報学環・学際情報学府 The University of Tokyo III / GSII

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April 23, 2018

【Lecture at UTokyo】 “Digitalisation, Public Sphere and Democracy——Observations from Germany”

*日時/Time*
2018年4月23日(月)18:00-20:00
April 23rd 2018 (Monday) 18:00-20:00

*場所/Venue*
東京大学本郷キャンパス情報学環本館2階
2nd Floor, iii Main Building, Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo

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*講演者/Speaker*
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Berlin Social Science Center)

*使用言語/Language*
英語
English

*講演要旨(英語のみ)/Lecture Abstract*

The talk will start with short overview of the political issues concerning digitalisation that are currently discussed in Germany. Among them are fake news, hate speech, but also the potential power of artificial intelligence. There are growing demands for legislative action, and Prof. Hofmann will show how the German government responds to them. The second part of the talk looks at the recent controversies over digital politics in Germany from a democratic perspective: How do modern societies perceive the relationship between technology development and their proclaimed social self determination? How do we intend to maintain control over the digital transformation? Prof. Hofmann will argue that we tend to overestimate the autonomy or power of technology but also, paradoxically, our political capacity to control it.

*講演者紹介(英語のみ)/About the Speaker*

Prof. Jeanette Hofmann is a political scientist with a focus on Internet regulation. At the WZB Berlin Social Science Center she heads the research group ‘The Internet Policy Field’, which studies the institutionalization of Internet regulation on the national level. She is co-director of the Berlin-based Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, professor of Internet policy at the Freie Universität Berlin, and principal investigator at the newly founded Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. At the latter institute, she heads two research groups on ‘digitalisation and democracy’ and ‘quantification and regulation’. In addition to her academic work, Prof. Hofmann has been involved in various political processes such as the UN World Summit on the Information Society, the Internet Governance Forum, and, as an expert member, in the committee of inquiry of the German Parliament “Internet and Digital Society”.

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*主催/Host*
東京大学大学院情報学環・学際情報学府 林香里研究室「メディア研究のつどい」
Kaori Hayashi Research Group, Interfaculty Initiative in InformationStudies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies), University of Tokyo

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Project S (“Producing Multicultural Communities”) of the Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity (IHS), University of Tokyo

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