Category: Media in the Digital Society
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Interview with Italian culture and philosophy magazine “Pandora Rivista”
We can become AI: think, speak, and act like AI. Then we are not only offloading our intelligence and creativity to AI; we are learning from the patterns of that “other” or “alien” intelligence. By meeting the AI in the middle and mimicking it, we co-create a hybrid expressivity or computational aesthetics.
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Two Keynote Lectures in Turkey
On October 31, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on “Media and Communication” at the University of Sakarya, Turkey. On November 4, 2025, I was a keynote speaker at the conference on Turkish cinema at the same university.
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Methodology – Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense
I will begin with some autobiographical remarks. I have a double educational background in the humanities and natural sciences. I studied the former at Cornell University and the latter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later in life, I worked for twenty years as a software developer. I had earlier studied literature and philosophy.
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How to Regulate the Media when they are ubiquitous and have gone viral: from utopian science fiction to practical European policy
This is the text of the keynote speech that I gave at the European Union conference “Pluralism and Responsibility: Media in the Digital Society” in Berlin on July 7, 2020. I was invited to speak by Monika Grütters, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.