Interdisciplinary Conference “digitality and privacy”
Innstraße 41
94032 Passau
Germany
The DFG Research Training Group 1681/2 “privacy and digitization” pursues the question,
which forms privacy can take in a digital society and the opportunities
and risks are to visualize it. The consequences for citizens,
Politics and economics are explored in the context of cultural and legal orders.
On digital media offerings include partially unprecedented cultural or altered
Media usage practices to which the border crossings with respect to conventional
Privacy standards are to be considered. The increased penetration of analog and digital
Realities often if it is considered an increasing fusion of private and
Public. Thus media cultural and ethical questions arise after the
standing behind the various applications and maxims
Scaling patterns and the need for analysis, classification and evaluation of
hereby enabled usage scenarios.
In the jurisprudence forms the review of data-based business models and
technical innovations which frequently also have extended access data
accompanied, a key challenge. Employs an internationally led discussion
whether there may be civil law ownership of data with the question. Generally, it applies in
As regards the major, global Internet services from Google, Facebook and Co.
both requirements of the public service data protection law as well as binding to
private agreements considered. The lack of transparency and complexity of the underlying
supporting technical relationships complicate not only the legal right
but throw overlooking users also questions the capacity to consent within the meaning of
Data protection legislation.
The ‘traditional’ media art, literature, film, etc. forming reflection instances this
societal and individual challenges. In them a cultural done
Self-understanding about in a society at a particular historical moment
Applicable as appropriate, for example, to the question of what and what not under what
Circumstances can be regarded as violation of privacy and is sanctioned accordingly.
Social as well as individual applications practices of digital media as well as the reflection
these processes are therefore based on character-based, media communication.
From this perspective also new opportunities offered under the technological development
to establish media literacy and to make abstract contexts understandable.
The meeting itself would the recalled here problems from an interdisciplinary
Approaching perspective, taking account both intellectual, cultural, social and media studies
Perspectives and secondly jurisprudential perspectives in focus.
The use of computing with cultural studies / legal issue are
also welcome.
Information on the organization and conduct
Organised by the DFG Research Training Group 1681/2 “privacy and digitization ‘Meeting
is from 26 to 28th October 2017 held at the University of Passau.
Your abstract (incl. Vortragstitel) with a circumference of max. 300 words and a
Curriculum vitae (scientific career, publications), please send as PDF to
to 30.04.2017 via e-mail (subject: digitality and privacy) to:
[email protected] and [email protected]
The notification of acceptance of the contributions is end of May.
The presentations have a length of 30 minutes. A publication of the contributions is planned.
As part of the conference program there will also be a panel with short presentations, the
particularly aimed at young scientists / inside at an early research phase
and this is to give the opportunity to introduce planned promotion projects. at
thematic and professional competence is a possibility in the doctoral program of
Research Training (TVL 13, 75%, as of April 2018) to be received. applications for
a 10-minute presentation on the young panel we ask according to
mark.