06.06.2023
Publication
The book "Shaping Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society" contains 28 contributions from 68 authors hailing from civil society, research, and practical experience, discussing challenges of digitalisation and how digital politics can and must be designed for sustainability.
23.05.2023
Interview
Statement
On paper, the Digital Services Act grants access to internal data of online platforms, to be investigated for systemic risks to our mental health, elections or social cohesion. Platform researcher Jakob Ohme explains what this could look like in practice.
17.05.2023
Interview
Algorithmic bias has received a lot of attention over the years, by media as well as scholars. We talked to bias researcher Paola Lopez about what progress has been made, what challenges and power struggles remain.
11.05.2023
Call for Papers
Digitalization and sustainability transformation are two of the most significant challenges facing the world today. However, the links between these topics have rarely been addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This conference aims to bring together digitalization and sustainability…
In diesem Forschungsschwerpunkt sollen der Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierung, Teilhabe und Ungleichheit erforscht, die Nutzung digitaler Technologien für Teilhabechancen gestaltend erprobt und gegen neue Ungleichheiten interveniert werden. Dafür werden Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsinformatik, der Designforschung und der Informatik zusammengeführt.
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.
Within this research focus we deal with questions about the workplaxe, 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.
13.06.2023 18:00 Uhr
Weizenbaum Forum
Der Einsatz und die Nutzung digitaler Medien in Lernprozessen sorgen für Gesprächsstoff. Wohin führen uns diese neuen Möglichkeiten in der Bildung und welche Risiken gibt es? Darum geht's in diesem Forum.
19.06.2023 10:00 Uhr
W100
Weizenbaum Conference
Register now for our fifth annual conference with exciting talks, workshops and keynotes taking place at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin.
20.06.2023 18:00 Uhr
Lecture
In his upcoming talk, Ulises A. Mejias, Professor of Communication Studies, agues that the notion of data as a non-rival resource is an illusion.
21.06.2023 09:00 Uhr
Workshop
This workshop on DSA will be held at the Weizenbaum Institute together with the European New School of Digital Studies (ENS) and is sponsored by Stiftung Mercator.
21.06.2023 18:00 Uhr
Fellow Talk
As part of our Distinguished Fellow Program, Prof. Sandra Wachter of the Oxford Internet Institute will be presenting her work on Discrimination and AI.
30.08.2023 20:15 Uhr
W100
Filmnacht
Bei der diesjährigen Weizenbaum-Filmnacht am 30. August zeigen wir den Film „Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work“.
27.09.2023 14:00 Uhr
Workshop
Neue Arten von Daten definieren neue Anforderungen an Techniken zur Automatisierung und Analyse von digitalen Prozessen. Ziel dieses Workshops ist es, Potenziale und Risiken neuen Entwicklungen für das Management von Geschäftsprozessen und deren digitale Unterstützung zu diskutieren.
28.09.2023 12:00 Uhr
Symposium
W100
As part of the jubilee year W\100, the symposium “Critical Stances towards AI: For a Critical and Self-Determined Approach to Digital Technology” will take place in September. Alumni of the Institutions can register until June 18th.
28.11.2023 09:30 Uhr
Workshop
The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI), again co-organise DigiMeet, a forum for early career researchers with a focus on digitalisation-related topics.
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