With the adoption of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in 2022, the European Commission embarked on a paradigm shift. It created a comprehensive framework that establishes rights for users of digital intermediary services—such as social media platforms or marketplaces for private listings—vis-à-vis the providers of these services. The protection of children and adolescents is a particular focus here, because although their daily lives and social interactions are heavily influenced by social media, these environments are anything but child-friendly.

The training data for generative AI systems contains millions upon millions of copyrighted works. The rights holders of this material were neither asked if they consented to this form of use nor were they compensated for it. Many celebrate the fact that texts, images, and musical works are publicly available on the internet as an achievement for free education and participation in humanity’s cultural wealth. Of course, no one thought about the for-profit companies that develop large language models on this basis.

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

Two Awards at SACM 2025 for the Media Change and Innovation Division

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Generative AI is Taking Over Everyday Life in Switzerland: From Experimentation to Regular Use

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

“Artificial Intelligence” in Switzerland 2024: Rapid Diffusion and Increasing Digital Inequality

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Interview with Ezequiel McGovern.
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in Latin America, can be read here. 

Author: Nisrina Khotimah (Call for Commentary)Editor: Ayom Mratita Purbandani

Real versus AI-enhanced images depicting explosions at a U.S. military base in Iraq. [Source: X]

The “Seventh Vienna Workshop on High-Dimensional Time Series in Macroeconomics and Finance” was hosted on May 28 and 29, 2026 by the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna.
The workshop was organized by Manfred Deistler (TU Wien), Leopold Sögner (Institute for Advanced Studies) and Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt)

Mapping Antifascist Postart w/ Gregory Sholette, H | RSS.com

Join OKFN and the UN Big Data Regional Hub to learn about our ongoing experiments integrating AI to public open data portals
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