DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

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

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Digital payments have long been part of everyday life—whether we pay by card, cell phone, or PayPal. But every time we make a payment, we leave behind data tracks. In this opening episode of the season “Secure Money” we ask: Who actually sees this data? Why is payment data so much more sensitive than other data tracks? And how is it used, in particular by the current players in the payment market? Is a vague unease or indifference justified – because proper knowledge about what happens in the background is no given.

Dans le cadre de la Semaine de la recherche étudiante qui a lieu du 16 au 20 mars 2026, à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal, aura lieu le 1er concours de présentations des recherches des étudiant.es du CRDP.

On behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I  welcome today’s announcement by the European Commission on the creation of the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC).  It is a hopeful moment for Europe, where the values of thousands of communities that have worked for years in a different way of doing and governing technology,...

As part of this year’s “Semester Warm-Up” event in the Foundation Hall of the University of Klagenfurt, the Spitzensport & Studium program, which has been running successfully since 2007, was ceremonially extended for another five years.

Content moderation combines human labour and algorithmic systems, exposing global inequalities in who controls what we see online.
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UPDATE (29 October 2025)  – Last month, Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

A TIM-financed project which aims to address the technological, economic, political and social impacts of the widespread diffusion and use of agentic AI tools.
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Im Rahmen eines Pilotprojekts hat ein großes deutsches Unternehmen aus dem Sektor Maschinenbau mit Standorten weltweit eine Kurzversion des DigCompSAT (Digital Competence Self-Assessment Test) aus dem „bidt-Digitalbarometer“ bei seinen Beschäftigten angewandt. Das Projekt zeigt, dass dadurch auf einfache, schnelle und effiziente Weise die Verteilung allgemeiner digitaler Kompetenzen bei allen Beschäftigten über verschiedene Rollen und Funktionen hinweg erfasst werden kann.

In ihrer Eröffnung der „bidt Konferenz“ 2025 machte die bidt-Direktorin Professorin Hannah Schmid-Petri deutlich, wie sich in der Nutzung von KI-Systemen sowohl Abhängigkeit als auch Vertrauen zeigen können: Frage man zum Beispiel ChatGPT nach aktuellen Nachrichten, sei man abhängig von der Information zu einem Ereignis, das man meist nicht selbst erlebt hat. Zudem sei es in der Regel schwer nachvollziehbar oder kontrollierbar, was in dem KI-System abläuft – zugleich bestehe jedoch der Wunsch, dem Ergebnis vertrauen zu können.

Strong interest, fascinating insights, and engaging conversations: the Alumni Business Tour organised by the University of Klagenfurt’s Alumni Network took participants to Infineon Technologies Austria in Villach on 22 October 2025 – and the event was fully booked well in advance.

“The youth of Morocco carries the message of a nation,” reads an open letter from the Gen Z 212 movement to King Mohammed VI of Morocco.