Dominik "Dodokay" Kuhn - "Asoziale Medien - Uber das Fur und Wider digitaler Kommunikation"

Dominik Kuhn is widely known as the comedian "Dodokay" - the fact that he also works as a media producer, entrepreneur and lecturer tends to catch his audiences off guard. He has been professionally involved with media and digitalization since the late 1990s, which is exactly why this talk isn't just a round of applause for social media.

He has no interest in straightforward social-media bashing. Instead, he asks how this communication frenzy came about in the first place, and what it actually does to the human brain. Humanity has never communicated as much as it does today: vast quantities of messages, videos and images are shared every day - one estimate suggests that 97% of all photographs ever taken in human history were created in 2017 alone. Few people notice that this communication overload, for all its benefits, quietly erodes the effectiveness of both private and professional life. The rise of conspiracy theories and fake news seems to bother only a minority.

Kuhn raises points - as his audiences have come to expect - that rarely get aired elsewhere, and makes the case that a critical, considered approach to new forms of communication can itself be a path to success.