Leonhard Dobusch, Institut für Organisation und Lernen, Universität Innsbruck
A new digital public sphere for new forms of solidarity-based responsibility
The financial crisis of 2008 has raised doubts whether top earners in the financial sector also perform correspondingly valuable social services. In turn, the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has highlighted the systemic relevance and performance of many low-income earners. Both have shattered the belief that the markets reward individual performance even remotely accurately. This also applies to the issues of climate change and the digital economy: Those who suffer most from global warming are those who contribute the least to the problem. Digital network effects are transforming markets into monopolies according to the principle “whoever has, will be given.” However, if the fiction of individual responsibility becomes increasingly difficult to uphold, opportunities for new forms of solidaristic collective responsibility emerge. My contribution provides examples from the field of new digital (platform based) public spheres, which will be of crucial importance for these new opportunities.
Evelyn Bodenmeier, Bürgerinitative German Zero Berlin
Citizens’ society – an instrument of media distraction or effective force for shaping the future together
(On the basis of point 17 of the 21 points that F. Dürrenmatt raised at the end of the drama “The Physicists”: What affects everybody can only be solved by everybody)
2020: Corona pandemic, planetary borders, climate catastrophe… Humanity is facing global challenges that affect everyone. Yesterday’s role models are today in an open morphing process. Civil society is no longer waiting for a passive involvement by state institutions but acts as an active initiator for necessary solution concepts and puts them into the political discrouse via social media. Across Europe, the traditional parliament is suddenly competing with participation formats such as citizien assemblies. At the same time, collaboration and co-creation are creating the basis for “new” alliances to collectively answer complex questions. The omnipresent transformation process has gathered momentum. The “how” and ” where to” has to be discussed.
Intro/Host: Walter Ötsch
Moderation: Renata Schmidtkunz
Speakers: Leonhard Dobusch, Evelyn Bodenmeier
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Biographies
Evelyn Bodenmeier
Loves all forms of facilitation. Experienced in steering transformation and multi-stakeholder processes initiated and supported by civil society (including Germany’s first environmental mediation Landwehrkanal, deliberative participation model Tempelhofer Feld and the Civil Society Fund Lusatia and the planned Citizens’ Council Lusatia) Currently in mission for germanzero.de. A seeker and networker in topics ranging from analog-digital to liquid democracy, deliberation models, #Gov0, citizen assemblies, e-government and open data policies, commons and netcommons, zeromission and blue economy.
Leonhard Dobusch
Leonhard Dobusch is Professor of Business Administration with focus on Organization at the University of Innsbruck. He holds degrees in Law and in Business studies and his main research interests include the management of digital communities and private regulation via standards, specifically in the field of copyright. He is co-founder of the momentum conference series, member of the ZDF television council and blogs at netzpolitik.org.
Walter Ötsch
Walter Ötsch is an economist and was formerly employed at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he established and headed the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy. Since 2015 he has been professor of economics and cultural history at the Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung. His areas of expertise are the cultural history of economic theory and questions of political communication. Publications: Populismus für Anfänger. Anleitung zur Volksverführung (2017) and Mythos Markt. Mythos Neoklassik. Das Elend des Marktfundamentalismus (2019). Further information at: www.walteroetsch.at
