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
06/10/2025
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | online
Weizenbaum Forum
Ein Ökosystem für KI-Rechenschaftspflicht? Zwischen Evaluation, Audit und Zertifizierung
Mit dem AI-Act der Europäischen Union gewinnen Fragen zur Verantwortung und zur regelmäßigen Überprüfung von KI-Systemen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Wie kann ein vertrauenswürdiges Audit- und Zertifizierungssystem gestaltet werden, das sowohl technische Standards erfüllt als auch gesellschaftlichen…
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…
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