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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

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

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.

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.
The post The bot that bit back: AI agents, defamation and the digital construction of identity appeared first on HIIG.

© 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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Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) und das Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) der Universität Würzburg haben am 9. März 2026 das Datenportal EO4CAM (Earth Observation Laboratory for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation) freigeschaltet.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence « Le déclin du « Législateur » ? Une mise en perspective de la Convention citoyenne sur la fin de vie en France ». Elle sera présentée par le professeur Jacques Commaille.
 
Date : Mercredi 1er avril 2026,
Heure : 16h30-18h
Lieu : Salon François-Chevrette (A-3464) + Zoom

Valuable works of art and historical documents are kept in secure locations that the general public can access only under certain conditions — if at all. If digital images capture what we consider essential about an object, it is often sufficient to view the copy. As is expected in democratic societies, access to these images should be as unobstructed as possible. Open access is the keyword here. Additionally, digital processing goes beyond mere reproduction, creating entirely new possibilities for access and potentially breaking down barriers to reception.

After more than 20 years of service, the INC mailing list facility listcultures.org was closed on 9 March 2026. This step is part of INC’s transition out of the polytech and toward becoming an independent organization: INC 2.0.
Over the past months we archived the 20 mailing lists; most are now closed, while some will continue elsewhere. If you’d like to take a trip down memory lane, you can explore the archived Mailman lists here: https://www.networkcultures.org/archives.

Cultural participation, including in literature, is a human right. Access to cultural assets and works of art, which can be individually enriching and shape our society, should be open to as many people as possible. ‘Access’ means, on the one hand, experiencing the essential aspects of a work through the senses, and, on the other hand, having the opportunity to understand it. However, sophisticated written language is an obstacle for many people when it comes to literature.