Media scientist sheds light on algorithms on the Internet
Adult education centre: Lecture on 24 November, 7 p.m., TIETZ, course room 4.07
On Thursday, 24 November, from 7 to 8.30 p.m., the Chemnitz Adult Education Centre invites you to a lecture in course room 4.07 at the TIETZ. Leipzig-based media scientist Prof Dr Christian Pentzold will present and discuss the benefits and dangers of algorithms on the Internet.
Participation is free of charge. Registration is possible by telephone on 0371 488 4343 or online at www.vhs-chemnitz.de/kurs/W221M104.
When collected data and information about internet users is analysed according to specific criteria and used for certain purposes, algorithms are involved. Of interest here is: What is clicked, what is read, what attracts attention? Speaker Christian Pentzold will explain what algorithms are and exactly how they work. The question of whether and how "de-netting" is possible, i.e. how users should deal with algorithmic media or can avoid them, will also be discussed.
Prof Dr Christian Pentzold comes from the Ore Mountains and studied at Chemnitz University of Technology and the University of Stirling in Scotland. During and after his doctorate in 2017, Christian Pentzold spent research periods at the Oxford Internet Institute, Harvard Law School, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, King's College London and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Christian Pentzold has been Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Leipzig University since 2020.
This event is part of the vhs media competence project "trau.schau.wem? faktenfest und mediensicher" and is funded by the Saxon State Media Authority (SLM).