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Spotlight: Dein Feed, deine Wahl

How does Social Media shape our political views? In this interview, Jakob Ohme and Lion Wedel share insights from their project “Your Feed, Your Vote” – and reveal what really shows up in our feeds.

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AI & Sustainability

In the debate about using AI for public good and combating climate change, tech-critic Paris Marx wants us to fundamentally challenge the ideologies the technology has been built on.

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From Isolation to Extremism

We spoke with Linda Coufal and Lion Wedel about their research on Incel radicalization, the impact of COVID-19, and how platform structures fuel misogynistic ideology.

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How Social Media can help MBC Patients

As an Open Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute, Nina Morena was working on her research project about “Knowledge Making and Online Literacies of Young People with Metastatic Breast Cancer”.

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Big Tech Versus the Common Good

Who Owns the Future of Artificial Intelligence?Florian Butollo and Esther Görnemann outline the consequences of the current technology race and offer policy recommendations.

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Events

09/15/2025 - 09/18/2025

TU-Campus EUREF, EUREF-Campus 9, 10829 Berlin-Schöneberg

Conference

BIFOLD Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society

The Summer School invites researchers and practitioners to explore the space of 'Open Science & Open Data'. Join us as we explore key intersections of openness and AI.

09/22/2025

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstr. 32,
10623 Berlin

Movie

Book Presentation

Panel Discussion

Meinungsbildung und soziale Medien

Soziale Medien sind fester Teil des Alltags geworden. Auf dieser Veranstaltung steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, wie sich soziale Medien auf die Meinungsbildung auswirken.

09/25/2025 - 09/26/2025

Conference

DSA40 Data Access Days

The first DSA40 Data Access Days will bring together different stakeholders from all kinds of backgrounds to connect, exchange, and collaborate around data access.

10/16/2025 - 10/17/2025

Workshop

Workshop on Critical Theory of the Computational

This international workshop—organised by Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Center for Responsible AI Technologies and the Weizenbaum Institute—aims to use critical theories in order to explore how digital and computational systems are influencing societal changes and how these systems…

10/23/2025

09:30 AM - 04:30 PM | Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin,
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26,
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Symposium

Lecture

Panel Discussion

Berlin – Stadt des offenen Wissens für Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Zivilgesellschaft, Kultur

Die Veranstaltung fördert den Dialog zwischen Akteuren aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Kultur und Zivilgesellschaft und stärkt ihre Zusammenarbeit – insbesondere im offenen Austausch von Daten, Wissen und Informationen.

11/06/2025

09:30 AM - 04:00 PM | online

Workshop

News

Call for Participants

Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting (DigiMeet 2025)

The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), the Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI), invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to present their work at the…

11/20/2025 - 11/21/2025

Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin

Workshop

Call for Papers

Generative AI & The Faces of Power

The workshop addresses the question of how to conceptualize the power relations associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence. It will be accompanied by a public keynote speech by Rainer Mühlhoff (Osnabrück University).

Pioneer, skeptic, activist: turning points in the life of Joseph Weizenbaum

With this interactive and digital exhibition, we pay tribute to the life and work of computer science pioneer and social critic Joseph Weizenbaum. It traces Weizenbaum's biography using the turning points that had a lasting impact on his life and gave him a new direction. 

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