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German media and technology journalist. Founding editor of piqd. Most of his piqs are digging into the new digital public sphere. How is the web changing public opinion? Who defines what's relevant and what's not? How can we make sure relevant information still finds an audience? How could alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and other commercial social networks look like?
Frederik is director of the media innovation think tank vocer.org. He's teaching "digital journalism" at the Hamburg Media School.
Weekend Digest: Five Recommended Piqs Of This Week
Every Sunday I'll recommend five piqs I personally think are particularly relevant, rewarding or simply entertaining. Also I want to use this space to introduce one of our piqers. Here we go:
piqs of the week:
The energy grid slowly turns into a decentralized network, just like the internet. The project "Brooklyn Microgrid" is testing a neighborhood version of such a peer2peer grid.
In many countries there are councils of economic advisors. But as we all know, economists often are wrong. They tend to be caught in their models and are detached from society. So why is there no council of sociologists as a counterbalance and extension?
Infant mortality in America is higher than in most wealthy countries. Mortality of babies from African American mothers are particularly high. The reasons for this problem aren't as obvious as they might appear.
Well produced animation series about the big questions in life.
Algorithms are considered objective and unbiased, while in fact they might be amplifying existing structures of suppression.
Introduced: Valentina Nicolae (channel: health and sanity)
Valentina was born in 1987 in Bucharest. She studied Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Bucharest. For two years she worked in a psychotherapy practice, dealing with gambling addicts. She's an independent reporter, writing and doing video reportages mostly about social and political issues.