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
06/08/2026
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM | Flex Room
Weizenbaum Colloquium
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Jan Grenzebach: Stimulus, Response, Bias: Evaluating Black-Box General-Purpose LLM in Algorithmic Hiring
06/10/2026 - 06/11/2026
bUm – Raum für soziales Miteinander,
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21,
10999 Berlin
Weizenbaum Conference
Weizenbaum Conference 2026: Generative AI and Society: What is at stake?
The 8th Weizenbaum Conference will bring together research from various disciplines on how GenAI affects society. It is chaired by Florian Butollo and Anne Krüger.
06/11/2026
09:30 AM -
11:00 AM
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bUm – Raum für soziales Miteinander,
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21,
10999 Berlin
Colloquium
Lecture
Zero Shot World: On the Political Logics of Generative AI
Vortrag von Louise Amoore (Durham University) im Rahmen der Weizenbaum Conference und des Kolloquiums "Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken"
06/12/2026
10:00 AM - 03:00 PM | WZB Social Science Centre, A310
Workshop
Sovereignty Exhaustion: New Vocabularies for Global AI Value Chains
This workshop starts from a provocation: the language of digital sovereignty circulating in academic and policy settings is both exhausted and exhausting.
06/16/2026
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | digital
Weizenbaum Forum
Rethinking policies with and for data workers: Labor issues in the governance of AI supply chains
While AI systems are increasingly developed and adopted across diverse sectors, a large workforce in the Global South producing data and verifying automated outputs has remained invisible. These workers are called data workers.
07/02/2026
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Colloquium
Lecture
The Long and Quick Formation of Generative AI as Inevitable: Imaginaries, Policies, and Controversies
Vortrag von Christian Katzenbach (Universität Bremen) im Kolloquium der Forschungsgruppe "Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken"
07/16/2026
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin
Colloquium
Lecture
Accounting Infrastructure and Temporal Coordination in German Public Health
Vortrag von Moritz Kleinaltenkamp (Neoma Business School Reims) im Kolloquium der Forschungsgruppe "Reorganisation von Wissenspraktiken"
09/03/2026
06:00 PM -
08:00 PM
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Weizenbaum-Institut,
Hardenbergstraße 32,
10623 Berlin
Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry and Team: Inventing ELIZA. How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism”
11/17/2026
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut | Hardenbergstraße 32 | 10623 Berlin
Book Presentation
Panel Discussion
Sarah Sharma: Insufferable Tools. Feminism Against Big Tech
Book Talk and Panel Discussion as part of the anniversary “60 years of ELIZA, 50 years of computer criticism"
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