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Weizenbaum-Institut

Who Owns Free Knowledge? 📚 💡
Last week, digital researchers and free knowledge practitioners came together at the Weizenbaum Institute to examine the power hierarchies embedded in free knowledge today, and to imagine a more just future of the commons. It was a wonderful conference, with @wikimediaDE full of enlightening thoughts and new questions.

Read the full report here: weizenbaum-institut.de/news/de

OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power #Wikimedia #DigitalSpaces #Commons #Platforms #Culture

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Expert Panel on stage in the main hall of the Weizenbaum Institute.
Close up of an expert panel on stage at the Weizenbaum Insitute. Obove the title: The Role of Enlightenment in Knowledge Production
A small group of people sitting on orange sofas in the midst of a discussion.
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Petra van Cronenburg

I know, it's crazy to try a summary about #Mastodon and #Bluesky after only some days (it can be different in some weeks). I had opened an account on Bluesky for professional reasons, so the result is different than if I were to use it purely privately. It's my absolutely subjective impression!
steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut (BTW, I bridge from there to Mastodon but not vice versa. Bridges are good for crossposting, they are not a real integration).

SteadyIncessant Chatter“Are you still living or are you already alive?” That was once an advertising slogan for a furniture store. Today we could ask: Are you still alive or are you already…
#socialMedia#platforms#communication
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Ecologia Digital

"Protecting #democracy from threats created by Internet #platforms is a laudable goal. But it is not worth the cost imposed by legislative attempts so far: empowering the government to control legal speech online. Lawmakers’ attempts to impose their own top-down speech rules are particularly unwarranted given the far more promising possibilities offered by #usercontrolled and #decentralized #contentmoderation systems."

techpolicy.press/regulated-dem

Tech Policy Press · Regulated Democracy and Regulated Speech | TechPolicy.PressThe First Amendment is meant to protect us from short-sightedness about state power, writes Daphne Keller.
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Weizenbaum-Institut

The conference will feature thematic sessions on key issues such as epistemic authority in digital spaces, asymmetries in knowledge production, and the challenges of platform governance. We will critically examine how historical legacies and current technological developments influence contemporary knowledge systems.

#Platforms #DigitalSpaces #OpenKnowledge #Equality #Power

@bherlo
@claraigk
@dscheykopp
@frankeschoen
@avilarenata @San_amd

PROGRAM 10:30 – 12:15 Session: The Future of the Knowledge Commons AND Session: The Role of Enlightenment in Knowledge Production
PROGRAM 13.15-15.00 Session: Epistemic Authorities on Digital Platforms – Who Has the Power to Inform? AND Session: Asymmetrical Power Structures in Free Knowledge Today
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