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Joint Master’s thesis presented: Digitalisation in the agricultural trade – a topic for the future with huge potential!

LagerhausAs part of a successful collaboration between the Institute of Management, Department of Marketing and International Management at the University of Klagenfurt and Unser Lagerhaus Warenhandelsgesellschaft m.b.H., Philipp Hiesel presented his Master’s thesis on digitalisation in agricultural distribution on 11 May.

Neues Werkzeug entschlüsselt Struktur und Motive von RNA

Die moderne Biologie blickt heute tiefer in die Zellen von Lebewesen als je zuvor. Für einen weiteren technologischen Fortschritt bei der Analyse von Ribonukleinsäuren (RNA) sorgt nun ein Forschungsteam aus der Bioinformatik der Universität Würzburg.

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

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

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

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

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

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

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Criminalizing Truth: Gulf Governments Must End the Crackdown on Information

Since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, triggering a wave of Iranian missile and drone attacks across the region, Gulf governments have moved swiftly to seal, even further, the information environment, controlling what their populations can see, say, and share abou

Special issue Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice about music metadata

In the next upcoming special issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice six articles about music metadata written by IViR researchers will be published. These articles analyse music metadata issues through various, primarily legal lenses.
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Want to learn more? Download the Wikipedia app

Engage your curiosity and deepen your knowledge with the Wikipedia app’s 25-day Reading Challenge. Wikipedia is kicking off this app initiative to celebrate its 25th birthday, a year-long event paying tribute to a quarter century of the online free encyclopedia. All that you need to do to participate is open up the Wikipedia app and read at least one article a day for 25 consecutive days while the Reading Challenge is underway. You have until 18 June to get started.

Open Call: Transmediale Solidarity Economies Lab, led by Sepp Eckenhaussen & Geert Lovink

transmediale 2027 invites applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Building towards the festival, the Lattice Labs introduce a process-based approach to collective learning and knowledge dissemination.

Each Lab is formed by about five participants and guided by an experienced artist or technologist. Together, participants develop a project that is presented and activated through public events during the festival week in Berlin.

einBLICK: Nachrichten aus der JMU

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

Experts Call for Synergy Among Educators, Families, and Communities in Implementing AI Guidelines in Education

JAKARTA, 12 May 2026 – The implementation of the Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB) of Seven Ministers on Guidelines for the Utilization and Learning of Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Formal, Nonformal, and Informal education requires cross-sectoral collaboration that extends far beyond the classroom.

Announcing the Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 in Barcelona

We hope you will join us from 26–27 October at the historic University of Barcelona as we translate evidence-based research into actionable policy.
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IViR at CPDP 2026

Tomorrow the 19th international conference CPDP kicks off in Brussels. Researchers from IViR are well represented in different panels.
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Debatte um Social-Media-Verbot: Fakten statt Bauchgefühl

Auf der re:publica 2026 diskutieren Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS), Roland A. Stürz (bidt) und Hannes-Vincent Krause (WI) am 18. Mai 2026 gemeinsam aktuelle empirische Erkenntnisse zu den Folgen von Social-Media-Verboten und sprechen dabei auch direkt mit Jugendlichen über deren Erfahrungen und Perspektiven.

Die Einführung des Verbots in Australien wurde vor allem mit Risiken für die mentale Gesundheit junger Menschen begründet. Besonders die Perspektiven Jugendlicher seien jedoch vor der Entscheidung kaum berücksichtigt worden.