As part of the international summer school REDA the school of humanities and social sciences welcomes Prof. Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford presenting the opening keynote „Ethics in the Age of Information”.

Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford. Among his current positions, he is member of Google Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten”. In his talk he outlines the nature and scope of Information Ethics, the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on human life and society.

Digitization and mediatization are core processes of ongoing social change. In the course of mediatization, communication increasingly manifests itself via mass media or telecommunications. Thus, more and more information becomes accessible in the form of data. Digitization converts data into universal digital formats which eases computer processing, leads to the convergence of different media, and thus further fosters mediatization. While consequences concerning the subjects, objects, and addressees of research in the social sciences and humanities have rarely been reflected upon, this reflection will lie at the center of the Summer School REDA. The summer school is supposed to bring together researchers who systematically illuminate research ethics in the above-mentioned sense.

The German Excellence Initiative funds the summer school and its participants from all over the world.

Talks open to the public:

Sunday, 6 September 2015, 5.30 P.M.
Keynote “Ethics in the Age of Information”
Prof. Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Marta Fraenkel-Saal
Lingnerplatz 1, 01069 Dresden

Tuesday, 8.September 2015, 6:00 P.M.
Forum: Multidisciplinary Aspects of Research Ethics
Prof. Dr. Daniel Apollon (Bergen), Prof. Dr. Albrecht May (Dresden), Dr. Corinna Lüthje (Dresden), Prof. Dr. Thorsten Strufe (Dresden)
Auditorium E023, Faculty of Computer Science, Nöthnitzer Straße 46, 01187 Dresden

Wednesday, September, 9TH 2015, 9.00 A.M.
Keynote: “Big Data - New Research Ethics?”
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden
Auditorium E023, Faculty of Computer Science, Nöthnitzer Straße 46, 01187 Dresden