2016 / 1: Privatheit und Quantifizierbarkeit

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Transparenz und Berechenbarkeit vs. Autonomie- und Kontrollverlust: Die Industrialisierung der gesellschaftlichen Informationsverarbeitung und ihre Folgen
Pohle, Jörg (2016) , S. 1-21
The far-reaching digitization of all areas of life is blatantly obvious, its individual and societal consequences are the subject of a broad public and scientific debate. The concept of privacy with its traditional notion of a categorical separation between ‘private’ and ‘public’ is the wrong starting point to describe, analyze or explain these consequences. Instead, a thorough analysis must take the processes of modern societal and especially organized information processing as a starting point, the organizations and institutions they’re producing as well as the power relationship between organizations and the datafied individuals, groups and institutions. After the first industrialization (of physical or manual labor), a second industrialization is now taking place: that of ‘intellectual work’, i.e. of societal information processing. It undermines the old mechanisms of distribution and control of power in society and threatens the bourgeois society’s promise of liberty by structurally rescinding individual and societal areas of autonomy. This very development and its consequences are what Datenschutz is addressing. Its function is the maintenance of contingency for the structurally and informationally weak under the terms of the industrialization of societal information processing and against the superior normalization power of organizations.
Advanced Wellbeing: Digitale Techniken der Vermessung von Affekten in der Cyberpsychologie
Schreiber, Lisa (2016) , S. 1-12
The interdisciplinary research field affective computing, a combination of psychology and computer sciences, seeks to design and develop digital devices that can recognize and simulate human affect and emotions. This article presents two examples from this field that problematize the concept of privacy in the digital age: first, a virtual therapist that can simulate a therapy consultation, and second a digital device developed to read minds by analyzing facial expressions. The focus of the article is less on matters of privacy protection in affective computing, but on questions of how the border between private and public is realigned in the digital age and how the production of a private sphere is needed to foster the relationship and communication between humans and machines.
Von Quantifying und Coaching-Apps - Digitale Lebensführung zwischen Selbst- und Fremdkonstitution
Schauerte, Eva (2016) , S. 1-21
The essay picks up Hannah Arendt’s diagnosis of the instability of the modern subject, which has led to a boom of self-help-literature within the 19th century. The article reflects upon some digital descendants of this genre: a series of self-help applications, the quantified-self-community, and a recently developed analysing tool for quantified data. From a media-archaeological perspective, the article not only enquires into the social and technological conditions of self-help in digital culture, but equally aims to discuss corresponding concepts of privacy and quantification.
Elternzeit und Bio-Politik. Subjektivation, Gender und (Re-)Konstituierung von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit
Neumann, Benjamin (2016) , S. 1-27
The paper addresses the juridical norm of the German Parental Leave legislation as an instrument of bio-politics. Referring to Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, three questions are discussed: (a) which productive power can be identified within Parental Leave in terms of the government of the subject as well as in technologies of the self? Both aspects are intertwined through processes of surveying, (self-) measuring and normalization. These issues are especially discussed regarding the fields of politics, economy and social sciences. (b) How do these technologies of subjectivation affect the constitution of gendered subjects? (c) Which transformation processes (can possibly) emerge with regard to the relation of the private and the public sphere? The discussion of these questions is based on first findings of a research project on “Fathers in Parental Leave”.
Privatheit und Quantifizierbarkeit: Zwei Einleitungen
Püschel, Florian; Degeling, Martin (2016) , S. 1-16

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