re:publica 17 - Love Out Loud!
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One of the programme team’s favorite studies deals with “happiness”. Researchers analyzed and processed datasets compiled from song lyrics, blogs and U.S. president’s State of the Union speeches. The three most important findings: “Love” is the most frequently used word in song lyrics – but the “content level of happiness” in songs has been steadily decreasing since the 1960s, while the level of happiness in blogs, for example between 2005 and 2009, saw a noticeable increase – this was in close correlation with the age of the bloggers.
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Update: Die Kunst des Liebens (en)
Felix Schwenzel Alle paar Jahre stolpere ich im Internet über Erich Fromm. Weniger weil das Internet voller Erich Fromm Texte ist, sondern weil ich alle paar Jahre nach Texten von ihm suche, in der Hoffnung ein Zitat zu finden, das sich pointiert auf eine aktuelle Entwicklung beziehen lässt.…
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Update: Die Kunst des Liebens
Felix Schwenzel Alle paar Jahre stolpere ich im Internet über Erich Fromm. Weniger weil das Internet voller Erich Fromm Texte ist, sondern weil ich alle paar Jahre nach Texten von ihm suche, in der Hoffnung ein Zitat zu finden, das sich pointiert auf eine aktuelle Entwicklung beziehen lässt.…
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Agitprop in the 21st Century: Memes as transgressive art, education & political weapons (en)
Edmund Schluessel, David Redelberger Socialist Meme Caucus (SMC) was founded in 2011 by Trotskyists and has since become one of the preeminent multi-tendency left meme pages on Facebook, boasting 55,000 members and inspiring countless other pages. SMC prides itself on combining inclusivess and...
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Love out Loud for #Diversity (en)
Fiona Krakenbürger, Florian Breisch, Chinmayi SK, Gabriela Agustini, Lena Kuhlmann At least the problem has been recognized: there are women missing in tech. And it isn’t just women: expert discussions, management levels or the very public forums of specialized conferences or hackspaces lack…
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Erneuern wir die Fundamente der Liebe! Ein therapeutischer Blick auf die sozialen Medien
Jan Kalbitzer Wie kommt es dazu, dass in einer Beziehung Wut und Hass entstehen? Und ist es dann überhaupt noch möglich, die Liebe zu erneuern? Insbesondere, wenn wir bereits von dem Gefühl beherrscht werden, dass wir in verschiedenen Realitäten leben - und dass uns nur noch die je eigene...
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Whatever happened to our dream of an empowering Internet (and how to get it back) (en)
Andres Guadamuz Back in 2006, Time magazine awarded its person of the year to us. The Internet. Time writer Lev Grossman wrote the following: “[2006 is] a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the...
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Nobody said it was easy: So schwierig ist queere Repräsentation in Webserien
Thilo Kasper, Jasmine Alakari, Julian Fricker, Luise Helm Der Erfolg von Webserien wie Transparent, Billions oder Please Like Me zeigt, dass queere Geschichten auch im Mainstream funktionieren. Trotzdem wurde noch nie ein*e offen queer lebende*r Schauspieler*in mit dem Oscar für die beste...
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Multisensory location-based VR as a catalyst for social change (en)
Maren Demant, Jim Rüggeberg Wearing a HMD with a 360° video with spatial audio in the staged environment, smelling Indian incense sticks, and all of the sudden meeting this girl, who is telling her lifestory adressing the visitor directly, people begin to realize and feel the horrible setting…
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Desperately under the Radar of State Censorship: Chinese LGBTQ* Communities and Social Media Usage (en)
Katharin Tai This talk will be based on research conducted in Shanghai in April 2016 and in Beijing in January 2017. After an overview of the situation of Chinese LGBTQIA* individuals in cities and rural areas, it will focus on the institution of "xinghun" (fake marriages between women and men...
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What´s love (got to do with this)? - Fireside Chat about #LOL instead of hating in silence
Clemantine Wamariya, Achol Jok Mach tbc.
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One of the programme team’s favorite studies deals with “happiness”. Researchers analyzed and processed datasets compiled from song lyrics, blogs and U.S. president’s State of the Union speeches. The three most important findings: “Love” is the most frequently used word in song lyrics – but the “content level of happiness” in songs has been steadily decreasing since the 1960s, while the level of happiness in blogs, for example between 2005 and 2009, saw a noticeable increase – this was in close correlation with the age of the bloggers.
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