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Annette Zimmermann

Annette Zimmermann

Researcher

Oct 6, 2026

16:50
Could you tell us a little bit more about that and also how that ends up impacting people's lives, not only in a technical sense, but in a living day by day sense?
17:00
The most concerning thing that I think happens in this regard is a narrowing of our imagination of what's possible.
17:07
And so normally, when somebody doesn't mess with our collective agenda setting process in a democracy, that means that we're having a lot of debates in society, not just in the context of elections, by the way, right? So like democracy is something bigger than just like, oh, you go and cast your vote every four years.
17:25
That's like a really thin notion of democracy that I want to overcome.
17:29
I think democracy happens daily when you talk to people, ideally also people that you disagree with, and you form opinions, you deliberate about different options.
17:38
And ideally, you come to a fuller understanding of what you and your neighbors and your co-citizens think is desirable and possible.
17:46
But of course, if you have this massive concentration of power, this can lead to some policy preferences and some arguments gaining a lot of traction also in the media and in the public imagination.

6 MINS LATER

23:54
Could you tell us a little bit more about that and how that gets implemented into the narrow narratives that we see today?

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