Join us on a journey into the realms of our digital society: In the new season of Exploring Digital Spheres our SET-project research team travels to five different countries on three continents in order to explore the intersection of sustainability and digitalisation and talk to local experts about their endeavours. In the first season of the podcast you got to know HIIG researchers and their diverse research backgrounds. We asked them how our digital society works and what its future might look like. Every other episode, the researchers entered into a dialogue with other digital mavericks!
http://www.hiig.de/podcast-exploring-digital-spheres
Bad content, good content
Julia Krüger and Amélie Heldt on different ways of moderation
Often we don't see the same content on the internet as others do. Content moderation is responsible for the way we scroll through social media and consume videos on the web. This raises crucial questions: What is good content? Should algorithms do all the moderation for us? How do we decide what should be deleted? For example, what is hate speech, and what is terrorist content? Are there ways to structure content moderation differently, while still maintaining democratic values?
Julia Krüger, an editor for Netzpolitik.org and assistant to a German member of parliament, is deeply convinced that we need to create alternative moderation schemes to uphold liberal values. Together with HIIG-researcher Amélie Heldt, she discusses the different methods of moderation, the role of AI yet to come, and what she personally hopes for.
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In the episode are the following references:
The coral project (by Mozilla)
The EU Internet Forum (EU presse release)
Alphabet Jigsaw (website)
Get to know Amélie Heldt (on youtube)
Julia Krüger on Twitter and Netzpolitik