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
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.
09/16/2025 - 09/17/2025
09:00 AM - 07:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
Conference
Data Workers Unite! A Transnational Assembly
Over two days, Data Workers Unite! A Transnational Assembly will bring together data workers from around the world to share experiences, network, and make their voices heard by policymakers, academics, and the public.
09/17/2025
05:00 PM - 07:30 PM | Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
Lecture
Panel Discussion
Who is Really Fueling your AI? Precarization and Resistance in Data Work.
Join us for an evening with the hidden workforce behind AI, get insights into how workers organize against its harsh realities and learn more about our research project The Data Workers’ Inquiry.
09/22/2025
06:00 PM -
08:00 PM
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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
Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
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
Weizenbaum-Institut, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin
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
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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).
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