Virtual Colloquium: Ingo Dachwitz – “From resources to repression: material exploitation in the digital age”

In this Virtual Colloquium session Ingo Dachwitz will hold the presentation “From resources to repression: material exploitation in the digital age”. Few tales are told as often as the relentless rise of Big Tech. They are all about innovation, ingenuity and progress. But in the story of the tech industry’s success, one chapter is usually left out: the bloody price paid by the global South. Based on extensive research and interviews with scholars and activists, this presentation focuses on three myths intertwined with the narrative of digital Fortschritt. 1. That AI works without labour 2. That digitalisation and green transformation are symbiotic 3. That the internet is a primarily liberating force.

Ingo Dachwitz is a communcation scholar and political journalist based in Berlin. He works for the nonprofit investigative digital rights news website netzpolitik.org and writes about the power of big tech, data, capitalism and the digital public sphere. His co-authored book “Digitaler Kolonialismus. Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen” will be published in fall 2024. 

Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1
Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532