Lecture: Kathrin Passig

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I often hear (and, more often, read) that many online conflicts are due to misunderstandings that arise from written communication. There is an assumption, explicit or implicit, that these misunderstandings could have been avoided simply by talking face-to-face, that evolution has optimized oral communication and that hence everything else must constitute a step backwards. For some years I’ve been replying to these claims ‘I’m not so sure that’s true.’

In this talk I will try to provide some actual arguments. I guess it would be easier (and less prone to misunderstandings) for me to write them down and for you to read them, but since the first will not happen unless I give this talk and the latter is highly unlikely for the usual reasons, we’ll have to make do with the spoken word.

Kathrin Passig is a Berlin-based writer. She runs a shop for randomly generated unique T-shirts (zufallsshirt.de) and, together with several hundred co-authors, the blog ‘Technik-tagebuch’ (techniktagebuch.tumblr.com). Recent publications include Standardsituationen der Technologiekritik (Essays, Suhrkamp 2013), Weniger schlecht programmieren (On How to Suck Less at Programming, O’Reilly 2013, with Johannes Jander), and Die Gegenwart ist schon da, sie ist nur ungleichmäßig verteilt (Techniktagebuch ebook, 2018).
For more (in German), see: kathrin.passig.de

Видео Lecture: Kathrin Passig канала ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry