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

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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

Lessons from Wikipedia: Keeping information reliable in the digital age

Read a new series to explore how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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On Wikipedia, disagreement is never a sign of failure. It’s evidence that people care deeply about getting the facts right. 

How much disinformation do German politicians and parties actually spread? On which platforms and to what ends? Two new studies provide systematic answers.
The post Who spreads disinformation, where, for what purpose, and to what extent? appeared first on HIIG.

With generative AI’s ability to create text and videos, the online world has fundamentally changed.

However, many people do not recognize that there is something distinctly familiar behind all that AI-generated content: knowledge curated, debated, and documented by humans.

That’s why Wikipedia’s role as the backbone of all knowledge on the internet has never been more important.

Let us explain.

Human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable

Françoise Daucé, Benjamin Loveluck et Francesca Musiani (Eds), The MIT Press, 2025.
L’article Digital Authoritarianism in the Making. Repression and Resistance on the Russian Internet est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Join us for our next club meeting as we explore Ray Bradbury’s haunting short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
Published in the 1950s, this piece imagines an automated house continuing its daily routine even after the disappearance of its human inhabitants. It is a chilling reflection on technology, war, and the fragility of humanity’s future. Whether you are reading it for the first time or revisiting it, this short story offers plenty to think about and discuss.

Over the past two decades, the bedroom has been culturally reconfigured and revitalized. As neoliberal-policy induced housing precarity has become ubiquitous, we now spend much more time living with roommates, or maybe even moving back into our parents’ place. We feel as though our agency and control are in constant flux, slowly slipping away from us while the complexities of the global financial flows and politics which govern our lives consistently seem to undermine our interests. What, then, is left over? Where can we still exercise our agency? What place still belongs to us?

Robert Poorten/AdobestockWhere will all the electricity required for the increasing number of electric cars come from? The Shared Charging project aims to provide an answer to this common question. The research team is developing a novel approach to public charging systems that can be seamlessly integrated into renewable energy systems. The goal is to create a comprehensive, user-friendly network of charging points that is as accessible as today’s parking spaces – but powered by solar, wind and other renewable sources.

ODE helped PARI restructure messy public financial datasets into a clean, consistent format, making them more presentable and ready for reliable analysis
The post Open Data Editor in Action: Enhancing Fiscal Governance and Transparency in South African Municipalities first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

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Most people don’t know that Wikipedia is hosted by a nonprofit. Accurate information online is needed now more than ever, as is the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.

How many times did you look up something on your phone today? Did you ask ChatGPT a question? How about Alexa or Siri or a social media site? 

Ein echter Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu autonomen Raumfahrtsystemen: Ein Forschungsteam der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) hat einen KI-basierten Lageregler für Satelliten direkt im All erfolgreich getestet – eine Weltpremiere! Der Test fand an Bord des 3U-Nanosatelliten InnoCube statt.