Ferda Ataman, Kübra Gümüşay, Anne Wizorek, Sabine Mohamed  
  
Room: stage 4  
  
Um ihre Belange an die Öffentlichkeit zu tragen, waren Vertreter\_innen von Minderheiten oder Frauenrechten stets abhängig von Gatekeepern - den Journalist\_innen in klassischen Medien. Das Internet bietet nun die Möglichkeit, sie zu umgehen und eigene Themen zu setzen: über Hashtags, Petitionen, Kritiken auf Blogs und eigenen Online-Medien. Symbolisch für die Verschiebung der Machtverhältnisse steht zum Beispiel die Debatte über Rassismus in Kinderbüchern (2013). Blogger\_innen und Aktivist\_innen veröffentlichten zahlreiche Kommentare und verbreiteten sie auf Social-Media-Plattformen. Die Debatten zu #Aufschrei und #SchauHin sind ebenfalls Beispiele für das Agendasetting durch Minderheiten-Öffentlichkeiten im Internet, in diesem Fall mittels der Themen Rassismus und Sexismus. Was hat in den einzelnen Beispielen zum Erfolg verholfen? Welche Gefahren birgt diese Machtverschiebung?


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Startups: Get ready!

**motto**

During its nearly eight year history, re:publica has developed into Europe’s largest social media conference, with 5 000 participants in the last year, and has had the privilege of welcoming many of the digital society’s most important leading minds to its stages. Since its inception, the digital society has faced continuous changes – but never have these changes been so palpable as since whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations during the summer of 2013.

re:publica 2014’s motto INTO THE WILD highlights various points of departure for solutions in the internet of the near future. When algorithms turn us transparent and controllable through predictability, perhaps we have to become more unpredictable; dissolving old structures, veering from the well-trodden path in favour of chaos and irrationality, heading INTO THE WILD. Yet this begs the questions: how will we navigate and find one another? How can one whisper into the global net and, in particular, with whom? Will those calling for a free and unrestricted internet not have to face being ever more vigilant and controlling of those who may partake and those who must stay out?

While the omni-surveilled net may have become draughty it will continue to protect its vital interests, learn to sidestep and manoeuvre and continue to develop. During the build-up to re:publica 2014, we will extend INTO THE WILD in search of unexpected technical solutions, surprising impulses stemming from business and politics and look forward to new, unbridled internet culture.

We are happy to announce the most exciting re:publica to date, happening from 6 – 8 May at STATION BERLIN.  

 Not despite, but distinctly because nothing is as it once seemed.


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