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DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Appel à communications : 3ᵉ Rendez-vous du Réseau international de l’innovation en justice (RIIJ).

Colloque souveraineté culturelle – appel à contributions pour étudiant.es chercheur.es

Colloque souveraineté culturelle – appel à contributions pour étudiant.es chercheur.es
22 octobre 2025, Monastère des Augustines (Québec)
 

ARC Success: DMRC researchers awarded in Linkage Projects scheme

 
Investigators from QUT Digital Media Research Centre researchers have been awarded $898,788 in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme. 
The Linkage Program promotes national and international research partnerships between researchers and business, industry, community organisations and other publicly funded research agencies.

Relive The Tech People Want Summit: 2025 Documentation

People want technology for people. Last week, the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The Tech People Want Summit, bringing together 34 speakers from 19 countries to rethink how technology supports our work in conversational sessions. This wasn’t a summit about coding, but focused on non-technical professionals – including data practitioners, communicators, project managers, and advocates. Once...

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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

17 July 2025 — Next week, on 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the United Kingdom (UK)’s Online Safety Act (OSA). 

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

The infrastructure researcher and CSO at Nym joins us for the seventeenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement
The post Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’ first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Open Science & Open Knowledge – similar but yet different worlds

Why is it that these two worlds have similar values but barely seem to connect? While both aim to promote free access to information, they seem to do so by different types of peoples associated with the separate movements.
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When Transparency Fails: Meta’s Political Ad Policy During Israel’s War on Gaza

Since October 2023, both pro-Palestinian groups and their opponents have increasingly relied on online political ads to shape public discourse. In the case of pro-Israeli ads, multiple state and nonstate actors have spent millions of dollars on disinformation campaigns on Google, Meta, X, and YouTube. 

A challenge for swarm robotics: using multiple drones to jointly transport a package

aau/MüllerWhenever a package weighing more than a drone needs to be transported to a disaster area, it takes several mini drones to get the job done. Aamna Piracha is researching decentralized formation control and collaborative slung payload transport with multiple UAVs operating as a collective system. She is particularly interested in enabling drone swarms to safely and autonomously maneuver in cluttered and unpredictable environments while carrying rescue packages, such as through collapsed urban areas or narrow streets.

Betriebsausflug der Zentralverwaltung

Während des Betriebsausflugs ist die Uni-Zentralverwaltung am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2025, nur eingeschränkt verfügbar. In der Studierendenkanzlei, dem Prüfungsamt und dem Career Centre wird von 8 bis 12 Uhr ein Jourdienst eingerichtet, der bei dringenden Angelegenheiten unterstützt. Die Zentrale Studienberatung kann über die Infotheke im Erdgeschoss oder telefonisch unter der Nummer (0931) 31-83183 erreicht werden.