9:00 – 9:30
Welcome Speeches
Golfo Maggini, Manolis Patiniotis
First Morning Session: Epistemological issues of the digitalized public sphere
Chair: Golfo Maggini
9:30 – 11:30
Orestis Palermos – Brain Computer Interfaces and the Extended Mind: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
Vasilis Kosteas – Epistemological Dimensions of Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in Political Behavior
Iakovos Georgoudis-Pitarokoilis – Nano and Neurotechnologies and the Blurred Boundaries Between Private and Public
Ilaria Fornacciari – In Real Time: Affective Technologies and the Epistemology of the Cognitive Subject (online)
Coffee Break: 11:30-11.45
Second Morning Session: Digital subjectivities, postruth and identity
Chair: Giannis Perperidis
11:45 – 13:45
Nicole Sarla – “What do I know of what I’ll be, I who don’t know what I am?”: Which Identity for what Digital Subject
Giorgos Pertsas, Stefanos Regkas – From critical to fatal: Baudrillard’s challenge to the theory of technology
Marianne Tripolitsioti – Digital Media and the Fragmentation of the Political
Public Sphere: Navigating, Identity Formation and Political Action
Lunch Break
13:45 – 16:00
First Evening Session: The Digitalization of the public sphere in light of the
Enlightenment legacy
Chair: Lia Mela
16:00 – 18:00
Spyridon Kaltsas – Jürgen Habermas and the Digital Public Sphere Fotini Vaki – The Transformation of the Public Sphere in the Digital Era Sarah Durkee – Where is Enlightenment?
Eleni Rethymiotaki – J. Habermas’ Contemporary Reflection on the Impact of Digital Media in the Public Sphere and its Repercussions on the E.U.’s Strategy for
Democratic Upgrading and the Strengthening of Political Pluralism
Coffee Break: 18:00 – 18:30
(Municipal Cultural Centre “D. Chatzis”)
Philosophy of the Digital: An Introduction (Crete University Press, 2024)
Speakers: Anthony Hatzimoysis, (Athens)
Orestis Palermos, (Ioannina)
Leandros Kyriakopoulos, (Athens)
Annita Boukouvala, (Ioannina)
Chair: Golfo Maggini, (Ioannina)
First Morning Session: Algorithms, AI and the Digital Public Sphere
Chair: Christos Grigoriou
9:00 – 10:30
Anna Ujlaki – The Socio-Political Integration of AI: A Care Perspective
Anthony Longo – Between Struggle and Desire: How Algorithms Change the
Public Sphere (online)
Agostino Cera – The Idioverse (Technical Test of Technocosm)
Coffee Break: 10:30 – 11:00
Second Morning Session: Technologies & Temporalities: The Hidden Structures of the digital public sphere
Chair: Orestis Palermos
11:00 – 13:00
Michaelangelo Anastasiou – Populism and the Mirror of Technology
Christos Hadjioannou – Media Platforms and Temporal Disruption
Petros Petrikkos – Affect, Temporality and Ontological Security (online) Anna Lazou & Thanassis Sakellariadis – Mind, Metaphor, Consciousness. Can there be a language of Thought?
Lunch Break: 13:00 – 15:30
First Evening Session: Sociocultural practices in the digitalized public sphere
Chair: Spyridon Kaltsas
15:30 – 17:00
Eleanna Pandia – Politically Comical and Comically Political: Comedy as a Political Factor in the Digital Era
Giorgos Sakkas – When World of Warcraft Meets Pornhub: Performance, Community, and Agency in Gamified Public Spheres
Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos – The Arts, Digital Media, Videogames and
Their Cross-Pollination in the Political Public Sphere
Giannis Ninos – The Production of Subjectivity in the Development of the Private-
Public Spheres Relationship
Coffee Break: 17:00 – 17:30
Welcome Greetings: 17:30
Anna K. Batistatou – Professor of Medicine, Rector of the University of Ioannina
Second Evening Session: Public Health and Labor in the digital public sphere
Chair: Golfo Maggini
18:00 – 20:00
Kostas Raptis & Katerina Vlantoni – Digital Transformations and Testing During the Covid-19 Health Crisis
Stelios Koufogiannakis & Manolis Patiniotis – Platform Government and Citizens’ Immaterial Labor.
Christos Krystallis – Data Democracy and Digital Labor
Eleni Tsatsaroni – Algorithms of Resistance
First Morning Session: Ethical and Existential Approaches to the digitalization
Chair: Nikos Nikoletos
9:00 – 10:30
Manolis Simos & Telis Tympas – Towards a Contextualist Approach to Contemporary Existential Threats
Iason Spilios & Telis Tympas – Understanding Ethical Dilemmas of Contemporary Technology: The EU Project ‘TethicsGame’ Approach Michalis Dagtzis – Technologies of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt, Modernity and Digital Media
Marianna Charitonidou – Socio-technical Perspectives and Urban Planning Policymaking: Urban Scale Digital Twins and Shaping a Sustainable Future of City
Planning
Coffee Break: 10:30-10:45
Keynote Speech: 11:00 – 13:00 (online)
Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna)
Title: “Why AI Undermines Democracy?”
Chair: Golfo Maggini
First Evening Session: Emerging challenges to democracy
Chair: Georgia Gouga
16:00 – 18:00
Leandros Kyriakopoulos – Culture Wars (in the Information Age)
Irene Kamberidou – Engendering Technology in the Digital Age: Women’s
Agency, Entrepreneurship and Multitasking Whirlpool
Dimitris Parsanoglou – Youth Political Participation in the Digital Era
Coffee Break: 18:00 – 18:30
Second Evening Session: Subjectivities, digital public sphere and stieglerian approaches to digitality Chair: Iakovos Georgoudis-Pitarokoilis
18:30 – 20:00
Madhav Tipu Ramachandran & Victoria Sgarro – The Capability Approach and A Critique of the Design of Digital Spaces (online)
Vasilis Rafailidis – Technics and Memory: A Stieglerian Diagnosis of the Modern “Politics of Memory”
Nikos Nikoletos – Another Thwarted Promise? Digital Networks, Power and the
Public Sphere: A Stieglerian Approach
Golfo Maggini, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina.
Fotini Vaki, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ionian University.
Manolis Patiniotis, Professor, Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Giannis Perperidis, Ph.D. University of Ioannina – Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, Ionian University.
Golfo Maggini, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina.
Fotini Vaki, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ionian University
Manolis Patiniotis, Professor, Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Orestis Palermos, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina
Spyridon Kaltsas, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Ioannina
Giannis Perperidis, Ph.D. University of Ioannina – Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, Ionian University.
Nikos Nikoletos, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina.
Iakovos Georgoudis-Pitarokoilis, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina & Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (F.O.R.T.H).
Paraskevi Zapsa, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of Ioannina