Daniela Jaramillo-Dent awarded an SNSF Ambizione Grant

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

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

Dear INC Community,

Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha wird neuer Präsident der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU). Der Universitätsrat der JMU wählte ihn am Montag, 9. November 2026, einstimmig zum Nachfolger von Paul Pauli, der dieses Amt seit 2021 innehat. Paulis Amtszeit endet am 31. März 2027, einen Tag später übernimmt Warzecha.
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Presentó el Legal Complexity Index, una propuesta que permite comparar la complejidad de términos de uso, políticas de privacidad y políticas de inteligencia artificial de plataformas digitales, en distintos idiomas.

IViR is pleased to announce that Ot van Daalen has been appointed full professor of ‘Privacy and Artificial Intelligence Law’ at the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Ot will continue to work at IViR one day a week.
The post Ot van Daalen appointed Professor of Privacy and AI Law at the Amsterdam Business School appeared first on IVIR.

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Journée pluridisciplinaire de l’action transverse Sécurité informatique et SHS, 24 nov. 2026, Lille.
L’article Les ingérences étrangères à l’ère numérique est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

At PLSC Europe2026, Laurens Naudts won the Top Policy Provocation award for his paper "Commoning (In)visibilities? On Datafication and Civil Society Representation in the EU’s Digital Acquis”.
The post Laurens Naudts wins Top Policy Provocation award at PLSC Europe appeared first on IVIR.

Yogyakarta 5 November, 2026 – Bringing together students from Singapore and Indonesia, the Center for Digital Society UGM hosted an educational visit from Methodist Girl’s School MGS and SMA Stella Duce 1. This is the second student visit to CfDS held by Methodist Girls’s School (MGS) Asian Programme (MAP) after 2025. The program aims to deepen understanding of the digital challenges facing young people. During the visit, the students explored “Youth Digital Rights, Gen AI in Education and Digital Safety”.

The Frictionless libraries for R and Python now support the Data Package v2 specification — with cross-language harmonisation, automatic version detection and continued v1 compatibility. Made possible by the NLnet Foundation, all the maintainers and broader Frictionless Data community.
The post Announcing Data Package v2 Support in Frictionless R and Python Libraries first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Foto: Viks_jin/Adobestock (KI generiert)The recently published study on working from home and working while ill (presenteeism) by Lena Zöhrer and Heiko Breitsohl (OBHRM research group), conducted in collaboration with Nils Backhaus and Sophie-Charlotte Meyer from the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, has recently received coverage in Austrian media.
On 23 October 2026, the study was featured on Ö1’s Mittagsjournal. In an interview, Lena Zöhrer discussed the phenomenon of presenteeism and key findings of the study.