DIGITAL SINS #1 ARROGANCE / NARCISSISM

DIGITAL SINS: NEW EXCURSIONS INTO THE PURGATORY OF SOCIAL MEDIA

A NEW SERIES BY NEUKÖLLNER OPER AND MUSEUM FÜR KOMMUNIKATION BERLIN

at the Museum for Communication Berlin
Tickets via the MFK Website

Can daddling be a sin? What’s so bad about reaching for your smartphone with its posts, tweets and reels?
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn among others, explains: “Social networks are most successful when they trigger one of the seven deadly sins”. What? Let’s find out more and embark on four excursions, from the heroine’s journey to the Western showdown and the therapy couch for fairytale princesses and princes.

EPISODE # 1 PRIDE/NARCISM

Pride used to be considered the most serious of all “deadly sins” – we put ourselves above everything and everyone else (even God, if you believe in him). Sounds familiar to us. An essential aspect could be translated as narcissism. We are also familiar with this from everyday life and social media. Beyond individual pathology, narcissism is an extremely consequential phenomenon of our time. Orchestrated, cultivated and fueled by algorithms, social media metrics, etc., it is not just a gigantic money machine for the big platforms; it has a significant influence on society, politics and elections, as we experience anew every day.

In order to defy the “digital hellfire” and find alternative courses of action, a wildly determined audience is needed: on a heroine’s journey, they will free gagged scientists, meet a certain Dr. Freud and an angel of humility, join a partisan group of resistant users … and in the end discover alternatives with music and humor. We will not allow our autonomy and creativity to be taken away from us, even online!

WITH
Dr. Catharina Katzer (Institute for Cyberpsychology and Media Ethics Cologne)
Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich (Hochschule für Politik/ TU Munich)
Dr. Julia Baum, Zsuzsa Komaromy, MSc. (Institute of Psychology, HU Berlin)
Lisa Mader, Kamil Ahmad (acting)
Luiza Labouriau (violin)
and the collective “Selbstgebaute Musik”
Concept, moderation: Bernhard Glocksin
Concept, script and room: Sabrina Rossetto

Fun fact: Anyone who would like to take part in special experiments in advance and take part in the event on stage can register at digitalsins@neukoellneroper.de by no later than February 10.
Keyword: Partisan group

And HERE the program of the individual episodes

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