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Second session: presentation "The Digital Dilemma" by Bernd Schwedhelm

The profession of journalism has become a network of others in times of culture, we have today learned of the journalists Bernd Schwedhelm. The changes relate to the content and editorial work, the increasing importance of technical know-how, what new work processes and thus has new content to follow. The editorial content of publishers and broadcasters on the WWW is so fast and efficient access to us Vorinternetzeitalter appears as an era were artificially scarce in the knowledge and information. In addition, expand social networks, wikis and blogs, the range of freely available information. The professional journalist is facing stiff competition in its function as a knowledge broker. The newspaper reader, editorial dependent on the selection, meets an editorial for him, is replaced by the user who obtains the message themselves. And thus changed the message because the reader already has become a matter to a provider of information: During these social networks and blogs and comment columns.
Schwedhelm draws attention to the trend of personalized information. If the machine keeps track of what interests me, then they may modulate the contents of it and I do not have to throw away half the newspaper.

We as scientists ask us: our channels of knowledge acquisition and negotiation are there still relevant? Schwedhelm speaks of the digital knowledge society in which other skills are in demand, as they did ten years ago.
also our understanding of the presentation of research results will change. Surprisingly, the discussion in the web application Wikipedia played a central role, some speakers said the interested listener a degree of skepticism about such a blatant free knowledge to recognize. Wikipedia heard criticism among historians now have good form. Surprisingly, the somewhat controversial debate was because the lecturer Wikipedia had previously not mentioned at all. I believe striking on this issue time and again that the disadvantages of the Wikipedia, in contrast to the disadvantages of the printed encyclopaedia somewhat overstated. In the plenary session was the concept of Digital Divide .
A listener noted the interesting question is not necessarily that something off, but why it is seen as divisive. A good word to end a stimulating lecture.