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Interview
VIDEO: Fairness and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence
Sandra Wachter, Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, talks about the risks AI systems pose, how they can be tested for bias and who has a responsibility to mitigate their harms.
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KI, Maschinelles Lernen und Co. – Neue Wege im Krisenmanagement
Um mit Krisen wie den Hochwassern Anfang des Jahres in Teilen Deutschlands umzugehen, ist eine gute Kommunikation zwischen den beteiligten Akteuren und der Bevölkerung entscheidend. Digitale Technologien können dies unterstützen.
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Interview
VIDEO: Gender inequality and politics
Why do men and women engage in politics in different ways? We spoke to political sociologist Catherine Bolzendahl about the gendered differences in political participation, and why men seem to benefit more from online spaces than women.
06.03.2024
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
05.03.2024 - 08.04.2024
10:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr | Location: (1) hybrid at bidt/online; (2), (3) and (4) online / Language: Mostly German
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QPD
Workshop
Workshop for Module 4 (QPD): Thinking like a…
Together with the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), we offer a Qualification program in digitalization research (QPD), which includes various workshops.
19.04.2024 - 26.04.2024
09:00 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr | online, Language: English
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Workshop
Workshop for Module 3 (QPD): Visualizing Science - Graphical Abstracts
Together with the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), we offer a Qualification program in digitalization research (QPD), which includes various workshops.
17.06.2024 - 18.06.2024
10:00 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr | Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin
Weizenbaum Conference
Weizenbaum Conference 2024: Uncertain journeys into digital futures
The Weizenbaum Institute is organizing its sixth Annual Conference: “Uncertain journeys into digital futures: Inter- and transdisciplinary research for mitigating wicked societal and environmental problems”. The conference will take place at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin from 17 to 18 June…
08.07.2024 - 10.07.2024
10:00 Uhr - 11:30 Uhr | Day 1 starts at 10, day 3 ends at 11:30
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PhD Research Retreat 2024
The Research Retreat has been part of the Institute’s programme since the outset. It takes place once a year over a period of three to five days providing a space for researchers to work on theses or other collaborative projects without outside distraction.
23.09.2024 - 26.09.2024
09:00 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr | Berlin, detailed information on location and schedule will follow soon
Symposium
PhD Summer School 2024: Gender, AI and Inclusive Work
The summer school is a joint project between the Weizenbaum Institute and FES Future of Work and takes place annually. The number of places is limited to a maximum of 16 PhD students from Social Science or related disciplines. The selection of participants is based on peer review and the excellence…