[Commlist] colloquium “Publicness and the public sphere under the threat of digital oligarchy”

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THE SLOVENIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS cordially invites you to the 
colloquium “Publicness and the public sphere under the threat of digital 
oligarchy” on the occasion of Slavko Splichal’s book Datafication of 
Public Opinion and the Public Sphere (Ljubljana, December 9, 2022 at 9 
a.m.). The colloquium will be held in the MiTeam interactive digital 
environment and will be accessible on the YouTube video platform: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10RAok9udgk&ab_channel=RokSTERNAD

To register for online participation in the colloquium (via MiTeam) 
click here: https://events.miteam.eu/asset/bkNqKXiT35tqdRfFG

PROGRAMME

9.00
Opening words and introduction by Slavko Splichal
Hannu Nieminen: The faltering utopia of liberal democracy: the public 
sphere and the digitization of inequality
Ksenija H. Vidmar: Collapse of reason? Between private anxieties and the 
fall of the public sphere
Risto Kunelius: The public sphere and the contemporary lifeworld: 
reconstruction in the context of systemic crises

10.45 COFFEE BREAK

11.00
Christian Fuchs: Towards a public service Internet
Stephen Coleman: The invention of segmented publics: How ‘publics’ are 
generated through data cluster analysis
Bart Cammaerts: On the need to revalue old radical imaginaries for 
asserting epistemic media and communication rights today
Ed Mcluskie: Distancing publics through managed engagement and 
ideologized transparency

13.00 LUNCH

14.00
Jernej A. Prodnik, Igor Vobič: Journalistic sources in the normative 
framework of the public sphere
Jernej Kaluža, Boris Mance: Digital platforms and the revaluation of 
journalistic values: a case study of Google’s Digital News Initiative
Tanja Kerševan: New European media law and the strengthening of the 
democratic public sphere

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

15.45
Sašo Slaček Brlek, Peter Sekloča: Datafication of the public and digital 
advertising in Slovenian news media
Nina Cvar, Jure Trilar: Proposal for an epistemic AI’s public use-model
Jan Kostanjevec: Software development and quantification of public opinion

17.15
Closing discussion

Additional information:

https://www.sazu.si/events/6374d290b5387a8265667ba4
https://www.sazu.si/uploads/files/57ee1d95c23371144545f64a/Program.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/events/680380106935563

Contact email: (jernej.kaluza /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si)

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