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Director
Sustainable Computing Lab
https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu

Institute for Information Systems and New Media,
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)
https://nm.wu.ac.at/human

Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna

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From: msekwenz <msekwenz@wu.ac.at>

Subject: High Noon in Vienna: Your Ideas for Our SCL Digital Duels

Date: 22. March 2021 at 13:21:46 CET

To: sclab@alice.wu-wien.ac.at, sclab_community@alice.wu-wien.ac.at, Soheil Human <soheil.human@wu.ac.at>, "Matthias C. Kettemann" <m.kettemann@leibniz-hbi.de>

Dear Lab Community,

It’s High Noon for the future of digitality. And with High Noon we mean: it’s a time for decisions.

In order to leverage what we know to find out more about what we don’t know and should know about the future we’re heading towards, we organize a debating series entitled “Digital Duel”.

What is a “Digital Duel”, you ask.

Based on a concept developed by Soheil, Matthias and Marie and organized by the Lab’s Research Group Platform Governance, a “Digital Duel”, as we conceive of it, should bring together two speakers that present different points of view around a topic.


To give you an example, imagine the topic “AI”. The first speaker would represent an optimistic view on AI technology in the form of a thesis like “AI will save us”, while the other would rather argue for a pessimistic scenario along the lines of “AI will kill us all”. Similarly, a Duel on the role of social media might have to opponents arguing “Social media destroys democracy” and “Social media saves democracy”.

In order to have a lively, but well-structured duel a moderator will accompany the two speakers.

Our duels are virtual. We will use a Zoom environment.

“Digital Duels” will be scheduled around noon – High Noon – will be implemented in cooperation with JF:TEC, Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften.

We count on you, dear Lab Community, to give us some suggestions. What should we duel about? Who should speak? Please feel free to nominate yourself.

Here is the link to our “Digital Duel” planning document and your entry code: SCLab2021
https://humans.ocloud.de/index.php/s/o5PJZyLdKeRRXAG

Please share your ideas with us until the 7th of April 2021.
If you have any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to contact  Marie-Therese (msekwenz@wu.ac.at).

Thank you in advance for your wonderful contributions!
Best,
Soheil Human, Matthias C. Kettemann and Marie-Therese Sekwenz