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Filmfestivals on demand? Pandemie, Filmkultur und Streaming
Film festivals are particularly challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although they work with a digital medium that can basically be presented online, they depend on the personal exchange of a physical event. As part of her Master’s thesis, Nastassja Kreft is investigating film festivals that offered their programmes exclusively or additionally on streaming platforms during the pandemic.
The case of culture: Extractive practices of work-life integration
From “move fast and break things” to a modern day workplace panopticon: Tech companies are treating their own workforce as mere productivity machines, driving the insatiable thirst for growth and shareholder value. This new kind of work-life integration tends to encourage long working days, visible busyness, and the lack of true time off.
Shaping the Airbnb Experience: How platform executives manage their service providers
Have you ever noticed that Airbnb stays tend to resemble each other quite a bit, regardless of whether you are staying in, say, London or Lisbon? If so, this is no coincidence. In this blog post, I describe the strategies and tactics which platforms such as Airbnb use to manage service providers in the sharing economy and create distinctive customer experiences.
Why, AI?
Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI). But how does it change society? And how can we use it to help society? For that, we need to understand how AI works and how we can make it work for us. We need to get this right, because there is so much to get wrong. This is why we have put together this online learning space. We hope that with “Why, AI?” you learn a little more about how AI impacts the world. And how we need to change AI before it changes us…
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