WSI Distinguished Lecture with Professor Jeanette Hofmann, Friday 12 October - SOLD OUT Event
- Time:
- 16:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 14 October 2016
- Venue:
- University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Building 53, Room 4025, Level 4, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Sam Collins on 023 80 593255 or email S.A.Collins@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The Web Science Institute is delighted to have Professor Jeanette Hofmann delivering the next distinguished lecture here at the University of Southampton.
Professor Hofmann will be giving a talk entitled "Democratic self-determination in the digital age" followed by a drinks reception.
"We usually associate democracy and societal self-determination with voting, political parties or, more recently, with expressing our will in the form of a referendum. However, the digital transformation of modern societies offers the opportunity to reconsider this understanding and draw a broader picture of democratic action. A possible starting-point for such an endeavour is the evolution of the Internet and its drivers. Does the course of digitalisation follow its own logic or are societies shaping this process? In this talk, I will use ideas from the area of sociology of technology to explore this question."
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Speaker information
Professor Jeanette Hofmann,Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Professor Hofmann, a political scientist, heads the project group The Internet Policy Field at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). She is also one of the founding directors of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin. Jeanette Hofmann is honorary professor of internet politics at the Central Institute of Further Education at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). She was a member of the Enquete Commission on Internet and Digital Society of the German Bundestag from 2010 to 2013. Jeanette Hofmann’s latest publications focus on conceptualizing Internet Governance, the emergence of internet politics as a new policy domain in Germany and the role of trust in the global regulation of the Internet.