27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The most rapid development is happening in the area of digital technologies. We expected them to bring convenience, ease our communication, smooth transactions and contribute to our general well-being. The difference between a taxi driver getting jobs via a mobile app and a global stockbroker trading using his cell phone suggests that this has not happened. The technology boom takes place in all possible ways which have one thing in common. They are driven by erratic technical capabilities and the sovereign interests of private actors. The broader social benefit is fading in the background and a framework to promote communal interest is lacking. We have a choice – to let digital technologies grow wild like a forest and allow them to determine our chances of survival, or to figure out ways to channel technology to shape a more participatory, inclusive and just world.
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GUESTSPetr Bittner (Czech Republic)Journalist and commentator for the Deník Referendum online daily. He studied philosophy, media studies and journalism. During the 2017 Czech parliamentary elections, he served as head of communications for the Green Party. After the crushing defeat, he relocated to Brno, where he worked as a media advisor for Brno-based social projects and he also became a father. He is one of the two percent of people who receive parental allowance and are men at the same time. In 2019, he received the Genderman award for promoting equal conditions for women and men. He currently works as a policy advisor and also in the Když práce nešlechtí project of the NaZemi organisation, which explores the contemporary development of the phenomenon of labour. In 2020, he translated the book Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Timo Daum (Germany)Expert on digital economy and lecturer in the field of business informatics and digital transformation. His main focus is the analysis and criticism of digital capitalism. He is particularly concerned with the topic of platform capitalism in transport and methods of agile management. Since 2004 he has been working as a lecturer in the areas of online, computer science and digital economy at universities of applied sciences in Germany and abroad, currently he teaches at the University of Hildesheim and the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. His book We're Capital: On the Critique of the Digital Economy received the Political Book of the Year award from Friedrich-Ebert Foundation in 2018. Patrik Eichler (Czech Republic)Journalist and moderator. He is the deputy director of the Masaryk Democratic Academy (MDA) and the editor of the bimonthly periodical Listy. He also worked for Literární noviny (2007–2009) and as a spokesperson for the Minister for Human Rights (2016–2017). He focuses on political programming and both Czech and Central European politics. Marie Heřmanová (Czech Republic)Social anthropologist and journalist. She is currently working at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University. Her research focuses on online identities and communities, influencer culture and gender inequalities in the online world. She also focuses on the online spread of hate speech and conspiracy theories and political radicalization on social networks. She is a member of the applied anthropological research studio Anthropictures and regularly contributes to various Czech media. Jeanette Hofmann (Germany)Political scientist, professor of Internet Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has founded and currently is a director of Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. She conducts research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) on topics such as internet governance and policy, transnational regulation, emergence of policy fields or digital society. She is a head of the WZB research group “Politics of Digitalization” which investigates how today’s societies make sense of and shape the digital transformation. She was a researcher at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation of London School of Economics and Political Science from 2007 to 2010 and served as an expert member of the Parliamentary Enquiry Commission on Internet and Digital Society of the German Bundestag from 2010 to 2013. Alžběta Krausová (Czech Republic)Researcher at the Institute of State and Law at the Czech Academy of Sciences, leader of the project Centre for Innovation Research and Cybergovernance (CICeRo). She is a member of the Expert Group on Accountability and New Technologies at the European Commission, the OECD ONE AI Expert Network and the Working Group on Human Rights and Modern Technologies of the Human Rights Council of the Czech Government. She co-founded the Czech Women in AI initiative and in 2021 also served as an intergovernmental expert for UNESCO in negotiations on the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on the legal aspects of AI and related fields, robotics, brain-computer interfaces, and merging technology with organic life. Kateřina Lukavská (Czech Republic)She studied Psychology and Special Education at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University. She works at the Department of Psychology at the Pedagogical Faculty Charles University and at the Clinic of Addictology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University. She is generally interested in quantitative research designs and statistical methods of data processing in psychology. In her research she focuses mainly on modern technologies, their safe as well as risky use (digital addictions, FOMO, etc.). Karolína Presová (Czech Republic)Lecturer in digital hygiene and digital well-being and author of the Replug me project, which creates workshops and programmes that put people back in control over the online world and help them manage the risks of digital addiction. She trains school children, parents, as well as businesses and individuals on how to use digital technology in a healthy and meaningful way. For its innovative solutions and results, the project has been listed among the most socially beneficial projects in Czechia. Her workshops were covered in Respekt weekly, Hospodářské noviny daily and in reports and interviews on Czech Television or Czech Radio, with which she collaborated on their digital detox programmes. Hana Řičicová (Czech Republic)Author of the podcast for Czech newsmagazine Respekt, for whose website she also prepares the series How are you? with Czech artists and interesting people. She studied journalism and media and works as a moderator at Radio Wave. She is part of the dramaturgical team of the multi-genre festival Luhovaný Vincent. Michaela Slussareff (Czech Republic)A graduate in Social Sciences and Andragogy, she works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Her research work focuses on the negative and positive effects of technology on children's development and healthy family functioning. She is conducting several national and international researches on the impact of digital media on school and preschool children. In addition, she is also the Head of Slow Tech Institute, bringing together experts who are concerned with new technologies and the sociological, psychological or physiological phenomena associated therewith. In addition to her academic and teaching career, she co-founded M77, a non-profit organization dedicated to projects that use new technologies in education and artistic work. Kateřina Smejkalová (Czech Republic)Researcher at the German public think-tank Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and publicist. She focuses mainly on social implications of technology, work and its future, commenting on current events in Germany. She has studied German and political science at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. Nick Srnicek (Canada)Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College in London. His most recent book, Platform Capitalism, sets out a framework for understanding the novelties of businesses like Google, Amazon, and Alibaba – as well as how digital platforms generate new tendencies within our economies. His work is also engaged in the long tradition of anti-work politics. His first book, Inventing the Future (co-written with Alex Williams), was an attempt to elaborate an anti-work politics in the context of modern technological changes. His forthcoming book, After Work (co- Vladimír Špidla (Czech Republic)A social democratic politician and director of the educational institute – the Masaryk Democratic Academy. He is a former European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (2004-2010), Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2002-2004) and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (1998-2002). He studied history at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. He focuses on the future of labour, climate and energy transformation and the necessary social and public policy responses. Among his topics of interest is also the impact of artificial intelligence on the operation of political parties and society. Martin Tremčinský (Czech Republic)Since 2017, he has been a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. His dissertation thesis focuses on cryptocurrencies from the perspective of economic anthropology, with an emphasis on social structures enabled by these technologies. Apart from cryptocurrencies, he also concentrates on the issue of foreclosures and over-indebtedness, and regularly contributes to the online journal A2larm. Marek Tuszynski (Germany)Creative Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech, an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. He produces creative and social interventions that span across various media, from film and radio to television, books, exhibitions and the web. For the past 30 years, he has been working at the nexus of technology and politics, information and activism and the consequences of living in a quantified society. His most recent documentary series for Tactical Tech, Exposing the Invisible explores the digital tools and tactics that now enable evidence-based activism to thrive on an unprecedented scale. He is also co-founder of the creative agency Tactical Studios, co-curator of the exhibition Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question and The Glass Room co-author of the books Visualising Information for Advocacy about how advocates and activists use visual elements in their campaigns and Efficiency And Madness: Using Data and Technology to Solve Social, Environmental and Political Problems. |
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FILM SELECTIONImages can speak louder than words. Check out our selection of films from the Ji.hlava IDFF’s festival programme.GLOBAL ILLUMINATION (Czech Republic, 2020, Artur Magrot) |
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READING LISTIf you want to delve deeper into the topic, here is a selection of the most interesting texts and other resources recommended by the programme guests, which are definitely worth the read!TECHNOLOGIES OF HOPE: 100 RESPONSES TO THE PANDEMIC COLLABORATIVE SOCIETY WITH DARIUSZ JEMIELNIAK AND ALEKSANDRA PRZEGALINSKA (THE MIT PRESS PODCAST) LUCAS CHANCEL: UNSUSTAINABLE INEQUALITIES (BELKNAP PRESS) VÁCLAV JANOŠČÍK: WORK WITHOUT LABOUR DOESN’T CONTRADICT THE CONCEPT OF DEGROWTH (KOLAPS) ANTHROPOLOGY NOW BLOCKCHAIN SOCIALIST (PODCAST) |
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