Portfolio: strategy, sustainability, social impact, digital rights
"Online discourse has changed how we inform ourselves, what and who to trust, as well as how information is quite simply accessed. Notably on online platforms and social media, recommender systems and other design features can be gamed to fuel disinformation, hate speech, and outrage. In addition, messaging services and alternative platforms are increasingly falling... Continue Reading →
Auf allen Podcast-Streaming-Plattformen: Mein Interview im Spiegel-Klimabericht.Das Thema: der ökologische Fußabdruck von Tech-Unternehmen, die Glaubwürdigkeit von Klimazielen und welche Fragen wir als Konsument:innen stellen können und sollten: Podcast.Ich freue mich über Feedback und Kommentare. 💚
50+ parliamentarians from across Europe. 2 days in Helsinki.It was intense and thought-provoking and it left me incredibly energised and buzzing with ideas. Thank you to the Open European Dialogue for organising and allowing me to share my expertise on the intersection of sustainability and digital technologies.It was a packed programme exploring a multitude of... Continue Reading →
Tech companies share their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions more transparently now, but does this translate into action? Do they, in fact, reduce their emissions and improve their environmental impact. While things are moving, change isn't fast enough. Here’s the tl;dr of what I found in the 2022 data: 2022 amount of million mtCO2e | change... Continue Reading →
Since August 28, very large online platforms (VLOPs) like Instagram, TikTok and co. must comply with the new DSA requirements. Most of the 19 designated platforms and services issued (big) public announcements of their implemented changes. However, whether these hold up is a different matter entirely -- as researchers Martin Degeling and Anna Semanova found... Continue Reading →
5 papers in 5 months. Since April 2023, my colleague Charlotte Freihse and I have been working with colleagues from the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society on a monthly series of expert workshops and thought papers looking at various topics of platform governance. We developed recommendations on decentralised networks, such as the fediverse, looked... Continue Reading →
Anfang August 2023 kündigte Meta mit Threads eine dezentrale Alternative an, die mit dem Fediverse kompatibel sein -- und den Einstieg für weniger tech-affine Nutzer:innen erleichtern soll, da die Anmeldung über Instagram erfolgt. Meine Kollegin Charlotte Freihse und ich konnten dies nicht ignorieren und haben uns diese vermeintliche Alternative einmal genauer angesehen. Für den Tagesspiegel... Continue Reading →
On June 7, 2023 I had the pleasure of joining a panel with Heather Thompson (Democracy Reporting International), Rita Jonusaite (EU Disinfo Lab), and Lea Frühwirth (CeMAS) where we shared insights, lessons learned, and ideas for how to counter disinformation. Three concrete action items for civil society researchers to help monitor and understand the spread... Continue Reading →
How can we reap the potential of the fediverse? Not feeding surveillance capitalism, defending against digital colonialism, breaking with the dynamics of the attention economy -- the promises could hardly be more appealing. But what does it take to build, invest, and nourish a healthy digital space? In this first impulse, I explore options and... Continue Reading →
The Digital Services Act (DSA), which will become applicable by February 2024, has received, and deserves a lot of attention. The digital landscape is about to change substantially. Reading the 100-page copy, I noticed my mind creating an inventory, or maybe more aptly: a running account. This running account could present quite the remarkable bill... Continue Reading →
Cathleen Berger 