…zeitalterinternet.wordpress.com/ – this is the title and URL of the blog that the multimedia workshop group created in April 2015 during the seminar “Google, Facebook & Co - Self- and External Determination in the Globalized Media Society”.
Whether radio, rap, or comic workshops – all revolved around new opportunities and constraints, personal interests, and those of business and government in internet use and participation. For example, createdthe . Surveillance radio group interviewed Nicolas Rück from Wikimedia to find out how Wikimedia works and how to contribute to it. Features on Facebook and tracking were also was also a major theme in the rap workshop and its rap production . The comic group demonstrated how new products can make life – and surveillance – smart, convenient, and seamless in their "Smart City Concept" for Berlin.
Many questions naturally remained unanswered for the participating trainees in office management at the Louise-Schroeder-School – digital self-determination and external control remains a current topic for all of us.