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Digital politics is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futuresaddresses this gap, initiating conversations about digital politics to a range of disciplines, developing new pedagogy for the field.

Jenseits der gepflegten Rhetorik der Medienrevolution sind um digitale Technologien herum in nahezu allen Bereichen neue Praxis-, Organisations- und Ordnungsformen entstanden, die soziologische Theoriebildung, Methodenentwicklung und empirische Sozialforschung vor handfeste Herausforderungen stellen. Eignen sich unsere an Handeln, Kommunikation oder Praxis orientierten Theorien, um das Mitwirken von Algorithmen zu beschreiben? Sind unsere an Sprache, Bild und gedrucktem Text geschulten Methoden geeignet, um die automatische Modifikation von Text, Bild und Bewegtbild durch Filtertechnologien zu analysieren? Wie gehen wir mit der zunehmenden Konkurrenz in Bezug auf Auswertungs- und Analyseverfahren um? [Verlagshomepage]

Social media have permanently changed the area of foreign policy: transparency in political activity, interaction rather than mere information, and communication on an equal footing are but a few of the implications for a reconfiguration of
international relations. Governmental actors are
responding to these changes in the digital world. Thus, states such as the USA, Great Britain and Sweden have already defined communication via social
networks as one of the core tasks of their foreign policy. They use cyberspace as a medium for conducting virtual diplomacy - and in this way, they try to bring their foreign policy into line with the changes in media.

Global politics has been completely transformed by the rise of digitalisation and the politicised use of everyday digital communication tools by ordinary people in citizen engagement and mass protest. And yet, digital politics as a field is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a narrow focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance. Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap. Bringing together contributions from junior and experienced scholars, the book examines digital politics theoretically, methodologically, and ethically, offering interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative pedagogies. The first part of the book presents research chapters that look at misinformation and reactionary online activism, digital imperialism and capitalism, future internet governance, digital memory, digital waste, and environmental imagination. The second part showcases several creative and experimental tools for studying digital politics historically, and for analysing and creating future imaginaries of digital politics. By sharing these tools and reflecting on the process of their creation, the book aims to simultaneously push the boundaries of, and inspire new teaching and research in, the field of digital politics.

Die Autorin untersucht, ob der Umgang mit dem digitalen Nachlass durch den bereits vorhandenen 1922 BGB ausreichend geregelt ist und der digitale Nachlass im Rahmen der Universalsukzession auf die Erben übergeht. Im Anschluss wird die Vereinbarkeit des gefundenen Ergebnisses mit den Regelungen des Datenschutzrechts und des Grundgesetzes geprüft

In light of the existing copyright system and the latest developments of the law of the European Union (with a special focus on the authors' home country, Hungary) and the United States, the article tries to answer whether and how the phenomena of Web 2.0 and P2P ("peer-to-peer" filesharing), the digitization for cultural preservation, and several other special technologies affect the culture of our age. This article argues that the several different usages influence the culture in three main ways: it can improve, preserve or deteriorate the culture. Naturally, it is hard to determine, if a use is either right or wrong. For example, P2P filesharing services are generally used for illegal purposes, despite the fact that the technology has several positive effects. Vice versa: one example of Web 2.0, YouTube, collects millions of home videos created by "average users". However, episodes of copyrighted TV shows or sports events are also accessible on the YouTube servers. Similarly, the Google Books Project impressively aims to preserve and provide access to millions of books in digital form. However, the original plan to execute the project raised legitimate copyright and competition law concerns, and so it sheds another light on Google. To sum up: only time will tell, whether a technological innovation or use will result in the improvement of culture or contribute to the deterioration of it. Due to the technological revolution almost all areas of life have undergone a major transformation in the past few decades. Digital technologies earned a vital role in this reform, since they made time, space and energy saving activities possible through replacing analogue technologies.2 Digital technology heavily affected intellectual creative activity as well. The spread of digital technologies have had at least two important consequences: first, intellectual creations may be copied and changed without limitation and without changing the quality.3 Second, due to the evolution of digital networks the distribution of, access to, and the forming of an opinion on accessible works has changed too: it has become easier, faster and more effective – both in time and in place. The traditional forms of human communication have been generally changed as well. Nowadays, people cannot imagine their life without digital technologies. Social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs, podcasts, e-newspapers, or streaming of TV or radio programs are great examples. The evolution of an entirely new digital culture is apparent. Intellectual creative activity has become something of a norm in our everyday lives. It would appear that besides the traditional copyright paradigm a new copyright conception emerges, where the user-generated content earns great importance.4 Due to the mass creation of works of literature, musical and audiovisual works, and photographs the respect of copyright law and intellectual creativity has partially disappeared. The young digital generations – by lack of a better example – may feel that easier, faster and cheaper accessible materials do not have any monetary value. The article starts with an introduction that introduces three separate effects of digital technologies upon the improvement, preservation, and deterioration of digital culture. Part two discusses the phenomena of Web 2.0, i.e. the way internet users communicate via the World Wide Web and contribute to culture at the same time. This part makes it clear that the present copyright rules are capable of solving the legal controversies raised by Web 2.0. Part three reflects upon the controversial question of file sharing. The article concludes that though file sharing may have several positive effects, it is clear that it the application is generally used for illegal activities, and therefore has a remarkable negative effect upon the entertainment industry and culture. Part four introduces the topic of digitization of already existing works, and emphasizes that there are several major differences between the existing copyright regimes of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Hungary and the United States. The author proposes consideration on whether it is necessary to broaden current statutory rules on digitization by libraries, in order to allow for the much broader preservation and making available of the valuable cultural heritage of our world. Based upon this logical line of events the article will continue to introduce the main effects of digital technologies upon the culture: the improvement, the deterioration and the preservation of culture.

ABSTRACT In this paper, T.G. Makarov and E.V. Kobchikova considered digital rights in the system of objects of civil legal relations. The features of digital rights are highlighted. The authors emphasize that digital rights can consolidate rights of various types, in particular, rights to things, property rights, intellectual rights, etc. The application of all these rights is possible using electronic tools in the appropriate information system. The authors concluded that the consolidation of digital rights in russian legislation is terminologically not quite accurate, as well as their assignment to the number of objects of civil rights is not entirely accurate.RESUMEN En este artículo, T.G. Makarov y E.V. Kobchikova consideraron los derechos digitales en el sistema de objetos de relaciones legales civiles. Se destacan las características de los derechos digitales. Los autores señalan que los derechos digitales pueden consolidar derechos de diversa índole, en particular, derechos sobre las cosas, derechos de propiedad, derechos intelectuales, etc. La aplicación de todos estos derechos es posible utilizando herramientas electrónicas en el sistema de información adecuado. Los autores concluyeron que la consolidación de los derechos digitales en la legislación rusa no es terminológicamente del todo precisa, así como su asignación al número de objetos de derechos civiles tampoco lo es.

There is no doubt that we live in exciting times: Ours is the age of many 'silent revolutions' triggered by startups and research labs of big IT companies; revolutions that quietly and profoundly alter the world we live in. Another ten or five years, and self-tracking will be as normal and inevitable as having a Facebook account or a mobile phone. Our bodies, hooked to wearable devices sitting directly at or beneath the skin, will constantly transmit data to the big aggregation in the cloud. Permanent recording and automatic sharing will provide unabridged memory, both shareable and analyzable. The digitization of everything will allow for comprehensive quantification; predictive analytics and algorithmic regulation will prove themselves effective and indispensable ways to govern modern mass society. Given such prospects, it is neither too early to speculate on the possible futures of digital media nor too soon to remember how we expected it to develop ten, or twenty years ago. The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art and aesthetics, as well as media literacy and education. Among the keywords discussed are: data mining, algorithmic regulation, sharing culture, filter bubble, distant reading, power browsing, deep attention, transparent reader, interactive art, participatory culture. The interviewees (mostly from the US, but also from France, Brazil, and Denmark) were given a set of common questions as well specific inquiries tailored to their individual areas of interest and expertise. As a result, the book both identifies different takes on the same issues and enables a diversity of perspectives when it comes to the interviewees' particular concerns. ; Roberto Simanowski: Introduction Johanna Drucker: At the intersection of computational methods and the traditional humanities John Cayley: Of Capta, vectoralists, reading and the Googlization of universities Erick Felinto: Mediascape, antropotechnics, culture of presence, and the flight from God David Golumbia: Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization Ulrik Ekman: Network Societies 2.0: The extension of computing into the social and human environment Mihai Nadin: Enslaved by digital technology Nick Montfort: Self-monitoring and corporate interests Rodney Jones: The age of print literacy and 'deep critical attention' is filled with war, genocide and environmental devastation Diane Favro et al.: Surfing the web, algorithmic criticism and Digital Humanities N. Katherine Hayles: Opening the depths, not sliding on surfaces Jay David Bolter: From writing space to designing mirrors Bernard Stiegler: Digital knowledge, obsessive computing, short-termism and need for a negentropic Web

The development of information technologies, and in particular the Internet, has led to the emergence of new social concerns that raise the impossibility of preserving privacy in the digital sphere. This contribution addresses, in historical perspective, the formation of a new socio-political concept of privacy that has replaced the previous one. To this end, the main elements that differentiate both are presented and what are the fundamental sociotechnical transformations that have enabled this conceptual change. The development of the text will lead to defend the suitability of a political view on privacy and ends with the presentation of some recent proposals that advocate understanding privacy as a collective problem. ; El desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información, y en particular Internet, ha supuesto la aparición de nuevas preocupaciones sociales que plantean la imposibilidad de preservar la privacidad ―que no la intimidad― de la población en el ámbito digital. Esta contribución aborda, en perspectiva histórica, la formación de un nuevo concepto sociopolítico de privacidad que ha sustituido al de intimidad en el ámbito digital. A tal fin se presentan los principales elementos que diferencian a ambos y cuáles son las transformaciones sociotécnicas fundamentales que han posibilitado este cambio conceptual. El desarrollo del texto llevará a defender la idoneidad de una mirada política sobre la privacidad y finaliza con la presentación de algunas propuestas recientes que abogan por entender la privacidad como un problema colectivo.