LFU:online

This lecture consists of two parts:

Part one (Weiskopf) discusses ethical questions and challenges associated with processes of datafication. This includes questions of responsibility in algorithmic decision-making, the concept of surveillance capitalism and its ethical implications, ethical dimensions of digital work and labour as well as ethical dimensions of new forms of transparency and visibility.

Part two  (Brodig) is concerned with social media and its effects and implications on society.

Theory inputs, group discussions, short student presentations

active participation

discussion inputs based on reading papers in advance

individual reflection paper on agreed topic

tba.