Klaus POIER

Buzzwords such as mass surveillance, big data and fake news hint at the key issues of freedom and security, self-determination and external control – of the individual and of political systems – that arise in connection with the impacts of the digital revolution on society and democracy, but without adequately capturing them.

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Klaus Poier

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz. Research focus: electoral law, direct democracy and democracy reform. Member of the Senate of the University of Graz. Many years’ work as an expert on issues of reform of democracy and the state (including as a member of the Österreich-Konvent [Austrian Convention] from 2003 to 2005; a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) since 2015. [Photo: © Teresa Rothwangl]

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