Podcast Državljan D

doc. dr. Aidan Cerar se na Inštitutut za politiko prostora ukvarja s trajnostnim urbanim razvojem, skupnostnimi praksami, ustvarjanjem prostora in trajnostno mobilnostjo, predvsem pa sodelovanjem javnosti v urejanju prostora. V epizodi se pogovarjava na temo pametnih mest po svetu in doma – kakšni so trendi na tem področju, kako se scena v Sloveniji razlikuje od drugih vodilnih držav na tem...

We caught up with Jason Scott on his visit to Slovenia in december 2022 when he visited the Computer Museum in Ljubljana and participated in the fireside chat about his work with the Internet archive, the challenges of archiving the digital age and other related topics. We also talked about the best way to preserve our digital memories, how do internet historians decide on what to archive and what...

How do journalists and activists investigate black box algorithms, what happens once the reports go out and who is blame for the disasters by black box algorithms that impact human lives? We sat down with investigative reporter Gabriel Geiger from Lighthouse reports to discuss the decision-making algorithms wreaking havoc, the safe-guards against algorithmic injustice and the political discourse r...

Leto začenjamo delovno s pogovorom o delu v informacijski družbi, socio-ekonomski realnosti spletnih velikanov in vlogi medijev pri konstrukcije medijske realnosti na tem področju. Neja Berger je novinarka medija Pod črto, sodeluje pa tudi na Radiu Študent. Hkrati se v okviru študija ukvarja z vidiki dela v informacijski družbi in problemov, ki nas na tem področju še čakajo. V pogovoru debatiramo...

Dr. Rys Farthing, the director of Children’s Policy at Reset Australia, an affiliate of Reset, an initiative working to counter digital threats to democracy across the world. Dr. Farthing is focusing on securing children’s rights in the digital age and in our discussion we’ve touched upon the historical development of this field, the many misguided solutions that we have rejected over the ye...

In this month’s episode, we sat down with an investigative reporter Michael Colborne at Bellingcat that is focusing on the issues related to the far right movements in the Central and Eastern Europe. We start by talking about his work and the issues he’s covering in the field and then move to the issue of the popularization of far right movements in general european societies, the poli...

Julia Rodina is the founder of NPO Tuleviku Meedia , media consultant, and media literacy trainer. We sat down with her to talk about the estonian media aspect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the media literacy in the aspect of active citizenship and the role of digital intermediaries in that regard. We also touch upon the particulars of media literacy trainings, the role of digita...

Credit: Tony Luong Karen Hao is a former senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review, covering the field’s cutting-edge research and its impacts on society, who is now working for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the publication, she was a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz and an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google X. We sat down with her to discuss her...

Francesca Musiani (PhD, socio-economics of innovation, MINES ParisTech, 2012), is Associate Research Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2014. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS, which she co-founded with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay in 2019. She is also an associate researcher at the Center for the sociology of innovation (i3...

Per Axbom is a designer, coach and visual explainer working out of Stockholm, Sweden. He has dabbled in usability, accessibility and UX since the mid-nineties. His passion for interviews, sketches and prototypes allow him to understand vividly and explain comprehensibly. His passion for listening helps people get unstuck and move forward in work and life. Regularly contributing to the UX community...

Sophia Goodfriend is a PhD candidate at Duke University’s Department of Cultural Anthropology and Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellow. Currently based in Jerusalem, her academic work examines the ethics and impact of new surveillance technologies. She is focusing on the use and contestation of digital and biometric monitoring in particular. Alongside her academic work, she work as an independent re...

Are smart cities just another word for surveillance society or can we truly benefit from multiple sensors in public places? We sat down with members of the Technopolice initivative in Brussels that tracks, analyses and campaigns against smart city and surveillance capitalism solutions. Can smart city solutions protect our privacy, does surveillance work and what is the political reasoning for impl...

Elena Maris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maris’s research is concerned with the interactions and tensions between media/tech industries and their users or audiences. She is particularly interested in the ways they use technology to understand and influence one another. She also studies how people experience and leverage thei...

Claudia Prettner is a legal/policy adviser on technology, data protection and human rights at Amnesty Tech, a part of Amnesty International. The topic of our discussion is surveillance advertising and the current regulatory attempts to solve this problem. With the current Digital Services Act heading for the trialogue and civil society highlighting the issue of surveillance society that still rema...

Dr. Daniel Rogers is a physicist, an author, and an expert in cryptography, cybercrime, disinformation, and security. He’s currently working as a CTO at the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) where they aim to disrupt, defund and down-rank disinformation sites. He is a co-founder of Terbium Labs. Previously, Danny managed a portfolio of physics and sensor research projects at the Johns Hopkin...

Leto zaključujemo s pregledom leta. Z dr. Zarjo Muršič , znanstveno novinarko, evolucijsko antropologinjo, biologinjo in kognitivno znanstvenico se sprehajamo po pandemičnem svetu, ugotavljamo razloge in posledice prelaganja odgovornosti na posameznika, vloga množičnih in družabnih medijev za nastalo krizo, mogoče rešitve in razlikami med komuniciranjem znanja in neznanja. Pri tem je eden od vpraš...

Mareile Kaufmann is an associate professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. Her background is in Criminology, Sociology and Cultural Studies and she seeks to consolidate the field of Digital Criminology. In particular, she studies digital surveillance practices and how people engage critically with these practices from within surveillance systems. She work...

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad who leads the development of better, more ethical digital policies and standards at the Norwegian Consumer Council . He is focusing on highlighting the issues of privacy, user data and security and is currently engaged in a campaign against online surveillance advertising. He’s currently leading the world-wide campaign against surveillance advertising and has been en...

Marta Peirano is a journalist specialized in technology and power. She works for main Spanish media outlets, including El Pais, La Sexta TV, Muy Interesante and Radio Nacional de España. She is a well-known public speaker and long-time advocate of free software, digital privacy and the radical decentralization of the critical infrastructure. Her most recent books are The Little Red Book of Online...

The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism was co-founded by Heidi Beirich, Ph. D. and Wendy Via. Beirich is an international expert on American and European extremist movements, including the white supremacist, anti-immigrant, antisemitic and antigovernment movements, and is the author of numerous academic publications on hate and extremism movements. Prior to co-founding GPAHE, Beirich l...

Alexandrine Royer is the educational program manager at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing AI ethics literacy. With the rising local political interest in Uber we sat down with Alexandrine to talk about the issue of ghost work and the platformization of digital economy in general. What are some issues that are having negative impact on the socia...

Amy Brouillette is the Research Director of Ranking Digital Rights, responsible for planning and managing the research and production of the RDR Corporate Accountability Index. Prior to joining RDR, Brouillette served as director of the European Media Program at the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) at Central European University in Budapest. Her work at CMDS involved developing and managi...

The Sleeping Giants campaign highlighted the issue of hate funding through digital advertising and showed that relationship between ad companies and propaganda outlets is higly problematic and highly ignored by the people responsible. We sat down with tech marketer turned activist, Nandini Jammi , who made her name with the Sleeping giants movement which targeted propaganda funders online. She&#82...

Davi Ottenheimer is the Vice President of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt , a company striving to restore the power of balance on the web through data decentralization technology. For over 25 years, he has worked to apply security models to preserve human rights and freedoms. He is the co-author of Securing the Virtual Environment: How to Defend the Enterprise Against Attack (2012) and the auth...

Based in Berlin, Germany, Qian Sun works as a freelance journalist for multiple media outlets in China and Europe. She mainly works for Phoenix TV, Hong Kong, as a correspondent covering German and European politics. Her writing, however, takes a human angle and mostly focuses on Chinese investment in Africa refugee and migration issues in Europe. She also works as a digital content producer for F...