Summer School REDA - Opening: Ethics in the Age of Information

Datum

06.09.2015

Zeit

17:30 - 19:00

Sprecher

Prof. Luciano Floridi

Zugehörigkeit

Director of Research and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Biologie

Andere Themen

Biologie

Host

Farina Dobrick, Bereich Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften der TU Dresden / Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft

Beschreibung

Digitization and mediatization are core processes of ongoing social change. In the course of mediatization, communication increasingly manifests itself via mass media or telecommunications. Thus, more and more information becomes accessible in the form of data. Digitization converts data into universal digital  formats which eases computer processing, leads to the convergence of different media, and thus further fosters mediatization. While consequences concerning the subjects, objects, and addressees of research in the social sciences and humanities have rarely been reflected upon, this  reflection will lie at the center of the Summer School REDA. The summer school is  supposed to bring together researchers who systematically illuminate research ethics in the above-mentioned sense.

The opening Keynote „Ethics in the Age of Information“ will be held by Luciano Floridi. Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of Research of the Oxford Internet Institute. Among his current positions, he is member of Google Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten” and Chairman of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF).

The German Excellence Initiative funds the summer school and its participants from all over the world.

Links

• http://tu-dresden.de/veranstaltungen/termin?id=TUD55e82996b00ee

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