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Digital rights are more relevant than ever, from big-tech companies that can target us based on data about our location, health, finances, gender, race, and other personal information, to potentially discriminatory AI. In Brussels a new law for the protection
of our digital rights and principles is being drafted. What should this law contain? How should we regulate the digital space? What can we, as concerned digital citizens, researchers, and artists do to support this process?<br class="">
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<div class="">We invite you to join the discussion on <b class="">Friday 1 July at "Reclaiming Digital Agency!"</b>, a hybrid event at Het Huis Utrecht and online.
<div class="">We will discuss how artists, activists and policymakers can work together to raise awareness of our digital rights and what is needed for better laws and legislation that will protect us as digital citizens and consumers. </div>
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<div class="">Speakers include: councillor for the Dutch liberal-democratic party D66 Utrecht
<b class="">Dirk-Jan van Vliet</b>, artist and researcher <b class="">Benjamin Gaulon </b>and media theorist and activist
<b class="">Geert Lovink</b>.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">BOOK LAUNCH i.c.w. VALIZ: STUCK ON THE PLATFORM</b></div>
<div class="">During the event Geert Lovink will also present his new book <i class="">Stuck on the Platform</i> (Valiz, 2022). In this book, Lovink calls for internet users to reclaim the internet as a way to fight digital dullness. Describing and contesting
internet trends during the turbulent Brexit-Trump-Covid era between 2019-2021, Lovink wrote this book as a relapse-resistant story, calling us to resist platform-culture.</div>
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<div class="">Date: 1 juli, 16:00-19:00h<br class="">
Location: Het Huis Utrecht + online<br class="">
Info & tickets: <a href="http://impakt.nl/code2022" class="">impakt.nl/code2022</a> <br class="">
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The event is part of CODE 2022, a European collaboration between IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], School of Machines, Making & Make Believe (Berlin), Werktank (Leuven) and Privacy Salon/Privacytopia (Brussels). With the support of Fonds Soziokultur, Fonds voor
Cultuurparticipatie, Creative Industries Fund NL, Dutch Embassy in Belgium, Dutch Embassy in Berlin and Goethe Institut.</div>
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