Was tun gegen Plattformmacht? – Protest, Bildung und Hacking auf Social Media – Vortrag von Julia Bee und Philipp Hohmann

In the organizer's words:

In their keynote speech, Julia Bee and Philipp Hohmann shed light on the potential of commercial digital platforms to endanger democracy. They outline developments in the tech sector and address problematic functions of social media such as TikTok, which promote toxic, anti-women and queer-hostile "filter bubbles" such as the so-called "manosphere". What civil society and artistic countermeasures are there and to what extent is there scope to intervene on the platform and push democratic, queer and diverse issues?

Julia Bee is Professor of Gender Studies at Ruhr University Bochum and researches anti-fascist protests and digital political education formats on platforms. Philipp Hohmann works at the interface of media and theater studies at the International Research Center Gender and Performativity in Vienna.