DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

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

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

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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

How do autonomous vehicles work in practice? Which technologies will shape the future of mobility? How do students benefit from industry collaborations?

From Thursday, June 26, students and external users can again borrow a maximum of 6 works from the open stacks in the reading rooms for 30 days (renewable!).
The last return date for vacation loans is September 17.
Take advantage of our extended borrowing conditions over the summer months!
 
Opening hours in July & September:
Mon-Wed & Fri: 8.30 am – 4.00 pm
Thu: 8.30 am – 7.00 pm
Sat & Sun: closed

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la publication des actes de la résidence d’Emmanuelle Marceau (en 2024) à l’Institut des études et de la recherche sur le droit et la justice (IERDJ),  portant sur son travail de recherche consacré à « L’éthique comme source complémentaire du droit dans la fonction de juger ».

.expub | Exploring Expanded Publishing
Edited by Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, Carolina Valente Pinto

On Wednesday 18.6.2025 it was that time again. The Carinthian Academic Boccia Championships took place on the grounds of the USI Outdoor. A total of 19 teams took part. The game was played in three groups of 6. The first and second-placed teams in each group and the two best third-placed teams then progressed to the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, the favored teams “KUGELSICHER” and ‘HausBoccen’ faced each other, with the “HausBoccen” team coming out on top. In the second semi-final, a purely Styrian pairing, “Reboot Rebels”, prevailed against the “dirty winners”.

Scholarships now open for applications
Applications are now open for two scholarships at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre.
These scholarship opportunities will investigate how 21st-century media changes and challenges the social role of media by gathering detailed evidence about how Australians use media (all forms, old and new).
Successful applicants will receive $37,010 per annum (domestic/international) for a maximum duration of 3.5 years while undertaking a QUT PhD.

Safer Internet Lab is returning to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for the third time. This year, in line with the main theme — Building Digital Governance Together — SAIL continues its efforts to contribute to digital governance through research and collaboration with fellow researchers across the Asia-Pacific region.

In democratic societies, a shared informational environment is considered a condition of civic and informed engagement and for a sound deliberative democracy. This common public sphere (Habermas) enables citizens to access facts, interpretations, and debates, which are a shared domain and define preconditions necessary for the legitimacy of democratic processes.

As June is Pride Month, we would like to take a closer look at the topic of gender diversity this month. Gender is thought, discussed, experienced and lived beyond the rigid concept of binarity. Non-binarity is a topic in every scientific discipline that deals with gender. For example, in medicine: biologically, gender can be determined by external sexual characteristics, reproductive organs, chromosomes and hormones. However, from a scientific perspective, this cannot always be categorised in binary terms.