CANCELLED! Lecture: "The metric we. On the quantification of the social"

Unfortunately, the lecture cannot take place due to illness. The event will be rescheduled.

Speaker:        Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The event is part of the ITeG lecture series "Digital Society - a Design Task" at the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG).

Whether education, health or consumption: data is now being collected on pretty much every aspect of our person and our behavior. Step by step, a society of stars, scores, likes and lists is emerging in which everything and everyone is constantly being measured and evaluated. This begins with the annual university ranking, extends to the quantified self movement of fitness enthusiasts in big cities who compare their best times with each other via the internet, and ends with the assessment of the efficiency of political measures. The lecture discusses the techniques and technologies of this sociometry against the background of digitalization and new forms of data extraction. His central idea is that the evaluation systems of the quantified society do not simply reflect the inequalities in the world, but are ultimately decisive in the distribution of life chances.