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Workshop Report
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Digital technologies are shaping every sphere of our lives. They influence the way we commu\u00adnicate and learn. They also have an essential impact on how we work, consume and gather infor\u00admation. Even the way we love and think is effected by digital technologies. They redefine the relationship between man and machine and open up unforeseen possi\u00adbil\u00adities for better or worse. The corona pandemic has further accel\u00aderated these developments.<\/p>\n

Digital\u00adization repre\u00adsents one of the major challenges of our time. Hence, it is crucial to obtain a profound under\u00adstanding of the digital trans\u00adfor\u00admation in order to be able to design and steer it.<\/p>\n

Rethinking Liber\u00adalism<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the context of our project \u201cRethinking Liber\u00adalism\u201d, the Center for Liberal Modernity is discussing the issue:<\/p>\n

How can liber\u00adalism be renewed?<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the last years, there has been much critique on liber\u00adalism \u2013 especially under the label of \u201cneolib\u00ader\u00adalism\u201d \u2014 and its pitfalls, however not so much work on its contem\u00adporary renewal. This is what this project aims at: Renewing liber\u00adalism by discussing liberal answers to the great challenges of our time. There are indeed many: climate change, global migration, social inequality, the rise of author\u00adi\u00adtarian powers as well as digital\u00adization. They all demand new ideas, perspec\u00adtives and answers. These great challenges often feed author\u00adi\u00adtarian thinking and populist movements, which makes the need for liberal answers even more urgent. Our project \u201cRethinking Liber\u00adalism\u201d connects liberal thinkers from different countries, various political families and academic backgrounds. It aims at creating a diverse network of liberal thinkers and political actors.<\/p>\n

The internet between utopia and dystopia<\/strong><\/p>\n

In its early stages, the internet often was hailed as an utopia of freedom and direct democracy. Indeed, it played a crucial role in democ\u00adratic uprisings like the Arab spring, and still offers an unprece\u00addented oppor\u00adtunity of infor\u00admation, exchange and networking. In contrast to these visionary hopes, in recent years the dystopian potential of author\u00adi\u00adtarian control and manip\u00adu\u00adlation, of an economy in which human individuals become redundant and a society driven by anonymous algorithms pushed into the foreground.<\/p>\n

In our workshop, we discussed the following aspects of digitalization:<\/p>\n