Research Foci
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Digital Technologies in Society
In this research focus, the connection between digitalization, participation and inequality is to be researched, the use of digital technologies for participation opportunities is to be tested and interventions against new inequalities are to be made. To this end, perspectives from business informatics, design research and computer science will be brought together.
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Digital Markets and Public Spheres on Platforms
In recent years, markets and publics have emerged on digital platforms, which are investigated in the four research groups of the focus area. Normatively, these platforms are in tension between public good orientation and economic imperatives. For their investigation, the perspectives of communication science, political science, economics, and computer science are brought together.
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Organizing Knowledge
Within this research focus we deal with questions about the workplace, the education system, and science. Above all we examine questions of openness and exclusion in the processing and organization of data and knowledge. In doing so, we draw on perspectives from computer science, business informatics, sociology, and innovation research.
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Digital Infrastructures in Democracy
This research focus examines the development of digital infrastructures and the resulting structural change in society. Special attention is given to tensions between security and freedom from the perspectives of law, sociology, computer science, and political science.
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Weizenbaum Digital Science Center
With the new Weizenbaum Digital Science Center, the Weizenbaum Institute establishes scientific offerings that create research, networking, orientation, and infrastructure services for interdisciplinary digitalization research and strengthen the coherence of research at the Weizenbaum Institute.
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Events
11/04/2025
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
Berlin Science Week
Talk
Friendly Fire – The Therapist as an Algorithmic Malfunction
What happens when AI tries to heal your soul? As part of this year's Berlin Science Week, we're taking a satirical journey into the future of therapy, tech, and care.
11/05/2025
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
Berlin Science Week
Talk
NFDI Science Slam
Join us for an unforgettable evening of science, creativity, and entertainment. Our speakers will slam on research data management to make you laugh, gasp, and think.
11/06/2025
09:30 AM - 04:00 PM | online
Workshop
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Call for Participants
Registration now open: DigiMeet 2025
The Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting (DigiMeet) is an interdisciplinary forum designed specifically for early career researchers with a focus on digitalization-related topics.
11/18/2025
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Souterrain Friedrichstadt-Palast / Quatsch Comedy Club: Friedrichstraße 107 (Nebeneingang), 10177 Berlin
Weizenbaum Debate
Weizenbaum Debate - KI gehört ins Klassenzimmer!
Ein Thema, zwei Thesen, drei Menschen. Bei der diesjährigen Weizenbaum Debate diskutieren wir mit Expert:innen aus Politik und Zivilgesellschaft, sowie Weizenbaum Wissenschaftler:innen über Pro und Contra von KI in der Schule.
11/20/2025 - 11/21/2025
Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Workshop
Generative AI & The Faces of Power
The workshop addresses the question of how to conceptualize the power relations associated with Generative Artificial Intelligence. It is accompanied by a public keynote by Rainer Mühlhoff (University of Osnabrück).
11/20/2025
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Lecture
The Power of AI: From Tech Ideologies to New Authoritarianisms
Public keynote by Rainer Mühlhoff, University of Osnabrück. The keynote takes place as part of the workshop Generative AI & The Faces of Power.
11/21/2025
03:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Symposium
Aufsicht und Durchsetzung der KI-VO
Das Weizenbaum-Institut und RAILS e.V. (Robotics and AI Law Society) veranstalten gemeinsam eine Konferenz zu den drängenden Fragen der Aufsicht und Durchsetzung der Verordnung über Künstliche Intelligenz (KI-VO). Mit juristischen Expert:innen diskutieren wir unterschiedliche Aspekte privater und…
11/27/2025
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut (Flexraum), Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Colloquium
Die neue Agency generativer KI und das Erfordernis der strategischen Interaktion mit ihr
Neue Veranstaltungsreihe der Forschungsgruppe „Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken“ am Weizenbaum-Institut, Wintersemester 2025/26. Auftakt mit Prof. Dr. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer zum Thema: Die neue Agency generativer KI und das Erfordernis der strategischen Interaktion mit ihr.
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