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Süssenguth, Florian

doi:10.1515/9783839427644-001

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“…By means of these data, the social can be captured in binary form, that is, in a form that reduces complexity, can be archived and can be networked and combined multiple times (Baecker 2018;Nassehi 2019). In this sense, digitalization serves to capture different social domains, such as politics, the world of work, the economy or the (objects of) science in digital data form, to network heterogeneous data sets, to generate Big Data and to evaluate them by means of algorithms (Borgwardt 2018;Prietl and Houben 2018;Reichert 2014;Süssenguth 2015). The goal of this approach is to decipher secret mechanisms and functions and subsequently to map behavioral patterns, make diagnoses, predict voting behavior, optimize production processes, develop marketing strategies and address advertising or content in a person-specific way.…”

Section: The Infrastructure Of Digitalization and Its Social Functionmentioning

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When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics

Seeliger,

Baum

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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In our text, we follow the traces of a (1) paradox, (2) an ambivalence and (3) a dialectic that constitute digitalized public spheres and discuss the resulting tensions in discourse-ethical and political-theoretical perspectives using the blocking of Donald J. Trump’s Twitter account as an example. Starting from this, we determine the conditions of constitution of the digital public sphere and locate the dynamics of its development in the dialectical tension between private and public: The fact that the two other relations of autonomy and heteronomy, intensification and polarization come to such a head is based on an insufficient socialization of all those means of production that produce the current digital public sphere. Using the example of Donald J. Trump’s recently suspended Twitter account and with a view to Habermas’s discourse ethics, we illustrate the extent to which Trump’s partly racist and conspiracy-theoretical post violates discourse ethics standards and is also highly problematic with regard to the political; however, banishment from a part of the digital public sphere is certainly not an act that should be incumbent on a private company. From this, we conclude that the normative potentials of digital public spheres can only be vol.

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Section: The Infrastructure Of Digitalization and Its Social Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics

Seeliger,

Baum

2023

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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“…Die Kontrollfunktionen von "Algorithmen" lenken den Blick auf die technischen Verfahren, die Information und Partizipation gleichermaßen kanalisieren und konditionieren (Grimmer 1974;Esposito 2017), damit vielfältige Prozesse und Praktiken unseres Alltagslebens formen und eine kulturformende Wirkmacht erlangt haben (Seyfert und Roberge 2017). "Daten" sind nicht nur das "neue Öl" (Houben und Prietl 2018), sie "verdoppeln" -eigentlich: multiplizieren -die Welt (van Dijck 2014;Kitchin 2014;Süssenguth 2015;Nassehi 2019), sind aber zugleich überschießend (Baecker 2019) und hoch selektiv (Boyd und Crawford 2012), schaffen ganz eigene "Nexistenzen" (Lindemann 2015), verändern die Qualität von Normen (Barth et al 2023 in diesem Heft) und generieren "digitale Praktiken" (Schäfer 2021) mit erheblichen sozialen Folgen, etwa mit Blick auf soziale Ungleichheit (Mau 2023 in diesem Heft). "Interfaces" lassen bislang klare Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Maschine verschwimmen und erwecken den Eindruck von Symmetrien zwischen beiden (Lipp und Dickel 2022;Dickel 2023 in diesem Heft).…”

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Digitalisierung als Herausforderung für die soziologische Theorie

Block,

Pohle

2023

Berlin J Soziol

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I have examined numerous books with terms like computer revolution or information revolution in their titles. Remarkably, none of these books carefully characterizes computer revolutions analytically or behaviorally. They do not explain how we would know one when we saw it. They usually refer to the pervasiveness of computer systems in social life and suggest that when powerful technologies become commonplace, social life must be altered. I do not mean that a case could not be made. But to my knowledge, no one has tried to make a careful case -indicating what kinds of social relations have been transformed, at what level of social activity, under what conditions, and what has not changed." (Kling 1991, S. 346 f., Hervorh. i. Orig.

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Technik als Trost

Selke

2023

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Verheißungen über Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) sind spekulative Bedeutungszuschreibungen und Heilsversprechen, die aus KI ein kollektives Tröstungsprojekt machen - so die These von Stefan Selke. In einer Metastudie vergleicht er vier prototypische Zukunftsnarrative und zieht dazu Quellen von Fachtexten bis zu Science-Fiction heran. Sein gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher 360-Grad-Blick auf das opake Phänomen KI macht deutlich: Verheißungen spielen eine zentrale Rolle für das zukünftige, technisch geprägte Weltdesign. Dank des innovativen Zugangs zum Gegenstand sind nicht nur Wissenschaftler*innen angesprochen, sondern alle, die Interesse an KI und anderen Transformationsthemen sowie einer Ausweitung des Diskurses haben.

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When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics

When Twitter blocked Trump: The paradox, ambivalence and dialectic of digitalized publics

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