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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

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

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

I met Kenzo Soares through an online call, as he is currently a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School. Kenzo is a carioca—a son of Rio de Janeiro—who has worked extensively on platform workers’ rights. He is also deeply knowledgeable about the political economy of Latin America from a Marxist perspective. During the call, which I took from the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, we ended up passionately discussing platformization in Latin America, shifting from the intimate to the technological and the geopolitical.

Europe‘s Long Road to Digital Public Money & Some Lessons from the Dutch Debate

By Martijn Jeroen van der Linden

21 January 2026

German version

Since Donald Trump’s re-manifestation through his 2025 presidential election it feels as if we are no longer living in a simulation, rather we are being simulated within new “Dark Ages”—especially with the ongoing militarization of Europe and Trump’s imperialist tendencies.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence The Coming AI Hackers, organisée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée, en collaboration avec le CRDP et la Chaire L.R. Wilson.
Date : 29 janvier 2026
Heure : 16H – 17H
Lieu : Salle A-3502.1, Campus MIL, Université de Montréal + ZOOM

Abstract

Technologische Entwicklungen, nicht zuletzt Social-Media-Plattformen von US-Tech-Giganten, fordern das Recht heraus. Verfügt es über die Antworten, die schnell genug, international genug und wirksam genug sind? In seiner Keynote bei der bidt-Veranstaltung „Demokratischer Rechtsstaat auf Abruf?

ÖH Uni Klagenfurt/CelovecThe Info Days of the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) at the University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, the lobby group in university politics for all students at our university, will support you on 4 and 5 February 2026 before the start of the semester with advice on all aspects of studying.

The ÖH Info Days will take place in the Aula of the University of Klagenfurt on the following dates:

KKHow can a drone estimate its state and position as accurately as possible, even when flying in an area without a good GPS signal and with only few distinctive visual features such as a desert? As part of his Master’s thesis, Lorenzo Miarelli is working on mathematical methods intended to support drones and robots in autonomous navigation.

Magnetpartikel-Bildgebung: Neues Zentrum an der Uni Würzburg – Würzburger Urologe für Studie ausgezeichnet – InnoCube: Würzburger Kleinsatellit ein Jahr im All – Quantencomputing: Nachwuchsgruppe arbeitet an Schlüsseltechnologie

“It was paradise; now it’s Disneyland!” Antonia Muratori laments in Emily in Paris season 5 after a  swarm of tourist zombies invaded her beloved Solitano. It’s not just her – tourismphobia is a recent global  consensus. Cluster-like masses of foreigners, armed in selfie sticks, camera-strap necklaces and tour guide headset, refuse to sync with locals, colonizing their living space and transforming it into theme park-esque commodities.