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<div><b>'China: Life in the Cloud' - Guest lecture by Ingrid
Fischer-Schreiber</b></div>
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<div>In no country in the world digitalization - using big data,
artificial intelligence or Industry 4.0 - is as advanced as in
China. It now encompasses all areas of life: communication, education,
media, entertainment, medicine, trade, and industry. The downside of
this technological penetration is a ubiquitous surveillance, social
control, and censorship.<br>
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<div>The lecture explains the political motivations and strategies
driving digitalization and describes who the key players are and how
politics and industry interact. It also gives an insight into everyday
"life in the cloud", which is dominated by a few super apps
for cell phones, and shows how censorship and surveillance are
increasingly curtailing freedom of thought and expression.<br>
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<div><b>+ Date:</b> 27 April</div>
<div><b>+ Time:</b> 6-7.30 pm</div>
<div><b>+ Zoom link:</b> <a
href="https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61063928417"
>https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/61063928417</a></div>
<div><b>+ Zoom ID:</b> 610 6392 8417</div>
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<div>See more info: <a
href="http://www.ipsd.uni-ak.ac.at">www.ipsd.uni-ak.ac.at</a></div>
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<div>If you missed Katharina Gsöllpointner's lecture</div>
<div>'The Climate, the Digital, the Artist, and their Work'</div>
<div>last week, you can now watch it on YouTube</div>
<div>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBsaZJW3QI </div>
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