Congratulations to Abdul Aziz, a recent DMRC PhD graduate, for achieving already remarkable milestones in his academic journey. Starting from July this year, Aziz will assume the esteemed position of Lecturer at Monash Malaysia University.
The Australia New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) has announced that Prof. Axel Bruns, Australian Laureate Fellow from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the highly anticipated ANZCA Conference 2023. The event will take place in Wellington, New Zealand, from November 21st to 24th, 2023.
The QUT Digital Media Research Centre’s Dr TJ Thomson has won a top faculty paper award from the International Communication Association’s Journalism Studies Division for a study on AI-generated images he co-authored with A/Prof. Ryan Thomas at Washington State University in the USA.
Peer reviewers called the pair’s study “imaginative, relevant, [and] deeply meaningful.”
Authorized transcript of Bruce Sterling’s lecture during the TU Eindhoven conference AI for All, From the Dark Side to the Light, November 25, 2022, at Evoluon, Eindhoven, co-organized by Next Nature. Website of the event: https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/calendar-and-events/25-11-2022-ai-for-all-from-the-dark-side-to-the-light.
Every year on May 17th, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) recognizes the importance of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the wide range of issues present in today’s information society. First celebrated in 1969, WTISD is an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) aiming to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of ICTs can bring to societies and economies.
Die Studie entstand im Rahmen der vom bidt geförderten Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe „Ethics of Digitization“. Sie ist in Nature Scientific Reports erschienen und wurde von zahlreichen Medien aufgegriffen.
Studierende können sich ab sofort für die Oskar-Karl-Forster-Stipendien bewerben. Es gibt grundsätzlich 500 Euro für die Anschaffung von Büchern. Wer sich zügig bewirbt, hat bessere Chancen.
The gender digital divide is a well-known research and policy topic. Policy discourses emphasise the inclusion aspect focusing on equal opportunities and economic empowerment. Critical analyses of the inclusion narrative stress its universalist and normative perspective which implicitly excludes and determines what gender technology inclusion means. This contribution focuses on an alternative perspective developed in Latin America: appropriation of technologies. This approach foregrounds the socio-cultural and economic inequalities present in the Global South.
Regina Ammicht Quinn organizes and moderates a public event during the Tuebingen CIVIS Days.For more information, see CIVIS website.
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Na początku marca media obiegła informacja o tym, że amerykański rząd nakazał urzędnikom państwowym usunięcie aplikacji TikTok z urządzeń służbowych. Przyczyną były podejrzenia rządu USA, że TikTok (a właściwie spółka zarządzająca, czyli ByteDance Ltd.) nielegalnie przetwarza dane osobowe użytkowników i przesyła je do Chin.
Portulans Institute has welcomed its first cohort of GII Academic Network Fellows. Our Fellows are academics and professionals from our GII Academic Network member institutions, who work on novel research related to innovation and innovation policies. Through their work they develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology, and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth.
Meet our 2023 Academic Network Fellows!
Das Haken- oder Dreifaltigblatt – mit wissenschaftlichem Namen Triphyophyllum peltatum genannt – ist eine einzigartige Pflanze. Beheimatet in den Tropen Westafrikas, ist die Lianenart aufgrund ihrer Inhaltsstoffe für die medizinisch-pharmazeutische Forschung von großem Interesse: Diese zeigen im Labor vielversprechende medizinisch nutzbare Aktivitäten unter anderem gegen Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs- und Leukämiezellen sowie gegen die Erreger von Malaria und anderen Krankheiten.