Hilke Berger is an urban researcher and expert in cultural urban development. Together with re:publicast host Jonas Ross, she takes a look behind the facades of our cities. It becomes clear that the city of the future is much more than a collection of cement or planted house walls – it is a complex network of mobility, coexistence and the urge for individual freedom.

Our everyday clicks are no longer insignificant actions, but have become the central arena in the battle for social interpretive power. In short: reaction is king!

Annekathrin Kohout talks to re:publicast host Jonas Ross about how algorithms specifically reward reactions, judgements and provocations, what this means for our interactions with each other, and why online communication today is so often characterised by chronic overstimulation.

What does ‘digital autonomy’ mean? Are we even using the right terminology here? And what role does digital civil society play in shaping autonomous digital infrastructures? Episode 2 of our ‘re:publicast Special’ addresses these questions. 

Markus Beckedahl talks to Julia Pohle about this. She heads the ‘Politics of Digitalisation’ research group at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB). In her work, she examines the interplay between technology, politics, social norms and power relations.