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

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

O LAPIN apresentou uma contribuição à Subcomissão da Assembleia Legislativa do Rio Grande do Sul que analisa os impactos socioambientais da instalação de data centers no estado, com foco no projeto previsto para Eldorado do Sul. O documento busca subsidiar os trabalhos da Subcomissão, apontando lacunas como a ausência de participação social estruturada, incentivos fiscais sem benefícios públicos claros, falta de transparência em indicadores socioambientais e o uso de mecanismos compensatórios sem redução efetiva de danos.

In de aflevering van Radar op maandag 9 maart wordt Ot van Daalen geïnterviewd over de overname van DigiD door een Amerikaans bedrijf.
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In recent days, a public dispute has laid bare tensions between AI companies and the US military over who decides how the AI is used. The US Department of Defense cancelled Anthropic’s AI agent Claude and instead struck a deal with OpenAI. Where constitutional protection is limited to domestic surveillance, the rest of the world becomes a legitimate target of AI-enabled mass surveillance. AI-enabled surveillance is no longer science fiction.

Citing “exceptional circumstances” amid ongoing war and the forced displacement of more than 700,000 people, Lebanon’s government approved a decision on Thursday, March 5, 2026, to expand eligibility for Starlink satellite internet services and delegated new licensing authority to the telecommunications minister.

Musik ist bekanntlich Geschmackssache und für jeden Geschmack gibt es das passende Genre: Von populären Musikrichtungen wie Pop und Rock bis hin zu Nischen-Musik wie Deathstep, das den elektronischen Klang von Dubstep in eine Metal-Ästhetik verpackt. Ein im Mittelalter bekanntes Genre sind Tropen. Das sind eingeschobene Texte und Melodien, die in gregorianischen Chorälen vorkamen.

Open Technology Research (OTR) is entering one of its most important phases: shaping a shared research agenda that will guide our collective work over the next two years and beyond.
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A real case of an AI agent publishing a smear piece raises new legal questions about responsibility and digital identity.
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© aau/Tischler-BanfieldClimate change is bringing rising temperatures and more frequent extreme heatwaves, with consequences at many levels. Over the next three years, Antonio Piolanti, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Klagenfurt’s Department of Health Psychology, will explore how extreme ambient temperatures may contribute to violence against women in intimate relationships and to child maltreatment.

Beirut, March 9, 2026 — Israel has displaced more than half a million Lebanese residents from South Lebanon, Beirut, and the Beqaa in yet another round of indiscriminate bombing of the country, provoking another severe humanitarian crisis. 

25 marzo 2026 | PRATYUSH NATH UPRETI (Queen's University Belfast)
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