DIGITAL PARTICIPATION OR THE RIGHT TO ANALOGUE
Lecture + Talk Digital Culture Talks & Workshops
Five percent of the population aged 16 to 74 in Germany remain offline. There are various reasons for this: Some do not want to be online, while others cannot. Nevertheless, even public services display an increasing shift towards digital-only availability. Local post and bank branches are being replaced by online services. The Kulturpass (Culture Passport) for 18-year-olds or a 200-euro one-off payment for students were only available to those who were able to apply online. All those who cannot cope are, at best, the subject of ridicule. Yet this affects quite a number of people who are left out in the rain carrying a crowbar in the face of this digitisation. They are often already disadvantaged in one way or another and are left even further behind by purely digital offers. Ideally, digitisation should simplify life. But a certain type of digitisation contributes to the growth of even more social division. Anne Roth worked in the German federal parliament as an expert on internet policy for many years. In her lecture, she asks what needs to change in order for the promise of more participation through digitisation to be fulfilled.
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As a graduate political scientist, Anne Roth has been dealing with the internet and politics for 25 years. Until December 2023, she was a consultant on network policy for Die Linke (the Left Party) in the Bundestag and supervised the Bundestag’s Digital Committee for that parliamentary group. Prior to that, from 2014 to 2017, she was a consultant in the so-called NSA Parliamentary Inquiry Committee of the Bundestag for the parliamentary group Die Linke as well as a research assistant to Anke Domscheit-Berg, independent member of the Bundestag for Die Linke. Anne Roth lives in Berlin and has been a part of the Berlin internet community for over 20 years while also being a political scientist and a mother of two. She rose to prominence in July 2007 as the partner of Andrej Holm, who was arrested as a terrorist. Following this, she began blogging about the inner workings of terrorism investigation. She has been dealing with the topics of surveillance, police forces, and fundamental rights since the 90s.
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ON/LIVE is organised in cooperation with the medienwerk.nrw office. The guest performance of In Skills We Trust as well as the ON/LIVE accompanying programme receive support from Fonds Darstellende Künste, with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. You and A.I. is funded by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.