Perspectives on Digital Humanism

Part 1: AI, Humans, and Control.- 1. Are We Losing Control?.- 2. Social Robots: their History and What They Can Do For Us.- 3. Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control.- 4. The Challenge of Human Dignity in the Era of Autonomous Systems.- Part 2: Participation and Democracy.- 5. The Real Cost of Surveillance Capitalism: Digital Humanism in the US and Europe.- 6. Democratic Discourse in the Digital Public Sphere: Re-imagining Copyright Enforcement on Online Social Media Platforms.- 7. The Internet is Dead. Long Live the Internet.- 8. Return to Freedom: Governance of Fair Innovation Ecosystems.- 9. Decolonizing Technology and Society - a Perspective from the Global South.- Part 3: Ethics and Philosophy of Technology.- 10. Digital Humanism and the Limits of AI.- 11. Explorative Experiments and Digital Humanism: Adding an Epistemic Dimension to the Ethical Debate.- 12. Digital Humanism and Global Issues in AI Ethics.- 13. Our Digital Mirror.- Part 4: Information Technology and the Arts.- 14. Fictionalizing the Robot and Artificial Intelligence.- 15. How to Be A Digital Humanist in International Relations: Cultural Tech Diplomacy Challenges Silicon Valley.- 16. We Are Needed More Than Ever. Cultural Heritage, Libraries and Archives .- 17. Humanism and the Great Opportunity of Intelligent User Interfaces for Cultural Heritage.- Part 5: Data, Algorithm, and Fairness.- 18. The Attention Economy and the Impact of AI.- 19. Did You Find It on the Internet? Ethical Complexities of Search Engine Rankings.- 20. Personalization, Fairness and Post-Userism.- Part 6: Platform Power.- 21. The Curation Chokepoint.- 22. Business Model Innovation and the Rise of Technology Giants.- 23. Scaling Up Broken Systems? Considerations from the Area of Music Streaming.- 24. The Platform Economy after Covid-19: Regulation and the Precautionary Principle.- Part 7: Education and Skills of the Future.- 25. Educational Requirements for Positive Social Robotics.- 26. Informatics as a

Hannes Werthner is a retired Professor for E-Commerce at the TU Wien. From 2016 to 2019 he served also as the dean of the Faculty Prior to joining TU Wien, he had professorships at Austrian and international Universities. His research is in E-Commerce and E-Tourism, Recommender Systems, and in Network Analysis. Besides research and teaching he was and is active in starting new initiatives, such as the Vienna PhD School of Informatics. the i2c (Informatics Innovation Center), the initiative to support refugees welcome.TU.code, and recently, the Digital Humanism Initiative. Since 2011 the International Federation for IT and Tourism (IFITT) grants the "Hannes Werthner Tourism and Technology Lifetime Achievement Award" to outstanding academics and/or professionals in the field.