Democracy needs a healthy internet. We don’t have one.
Here’s a story about how democracy, our very way of organizing our society and our lives, is under existential threat — because our public information sphere, our media environment,…
Category: media
The link not clicked
Have you ever not clicked a link because you didn’t want to send a signal to an algorithm or the entity behind it? To avoid being targeted with…
A healthy public infosphere is the missing building block in the fight for democracy right now
As we see democracy under pressure from populists and other malign hustlers around the globe, one essential issue has become painfully clear: We do not currently have a…
Some thoughts on News & Democracy
The Reuters Institute published their 2024 Digital News Report. It’s a great resource. Today I want to use it as an occasion to talk about some structural considerations.…
Emotional Algos
Recently, this graph made the round on Twitter. It shows how news headlines have been getting more emotionally intense over the years: They appear to be written specifically…
CSR Magazin: Freie Technologien für die Gesellschaft
Im CSR Magazin wurde eine überarbeitete Version unseres Artikels zu Open Source Hardware veröffentlich. Den Artikel hatte ich gemeinsam mit meinen Co-Autoren Stephan Bohn und Hendrik Send vom…
Interview: Brand Eins
I was very happy to be interviewed by Christoph Koch for the current issue (07/2018) of Brand Eins. We spoke about the Internet of Things (IoT), how it…