"Responsibility and Resistance: Ethics in Mediatized Worlds"

08.12.2015

Conference of the priority program "Mediatized Worlds" from Dec 9 to Dec 11 2015 in Vienna

The conference "Responsibility and Resistance: Ethics in Mediatized Worlds" is organized by the priority program "Mediatized Worlds" in cooperation with Matthias Karmasin & Tobias Eberwein (Alpen Adria University / Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Matthias Rath (University of Education Ludwigsburg). It will take place from December 9 to 11 2015 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Coordinator of the priority program Friedrich Krotz will hold the opening keynote entitled Ethics in Mediatized Worlds on Thursday, December 10 at 9:30 a.m. 

Further keynote speakers are:

• Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (University of Bremen): History of Responsibility in Mediatized Worlds – is it a new Topic?
• Matthias Karmasin & Tobias Eberwein (Alpen Adria University / Austrian Academy of Sciences): Mediatization as a Challenge to Media Ethics
• Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki): Mediatized Resistance of Victims – Toward the Ethics of 'Politics of Pity'
• Matthias Rath (University of Education Ludwigsburg): Ethics of the Mediatized World

Please find further information and the conference program on the conference website.