Am Bayerischen Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) sind drei neue interne Forschungsprojekte gestartet. Sie widmen sich im Forschungsbereich „Wirtschaft und Arbeit“ unterschiedlichen Aspekten der digitalen Transformation: Während ein Projekt mit einem datenbasierten Monitoring einen umfassenden Überblick über die digitale Arbeitswelt in Bayern schafft, untersucht ein weiteres die Auswirkungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) auf Tätigkeiten und Berufsbilder in IT und Engineering.

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

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

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Kardiomyopathien sind eine Gruppe von meist erblichen, seltenen Herzkrankheiten, bei denen die Struktur des Herzmuskelgewebes gestört ist. Das schränkt die Pumpkraft des Herzens ein; es kommt zu Atemnot, geringerer körperlicher Leistungsfähigkeit und weiteren typischen Beschwerden einer Herzschwäche.

LSZ Future ConnectionsOn 30 June and 1 July 2026, the Department of Management of the University of Klagenfurt, together with the Karl Landsteiner Institute for Hospital Organisation, was represented at the LSZ Health Congress in Stegersbach. The event provided a forum for exchange between researchers and practitioners on current developments and challenges in healthcare.

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

The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization guided by values centered on shared purpose, continuous improvement, welcoming participation, and open, curious dialogue. We aim to advance a more informed and inclusive world through our support of knowledge sharing and access, and recognize that this work begins with how we operate as an organization.

SMEX, a member of the joint ministerial committee tasked with developing Lebanon’s national strategy for promoting the safe and responsible use of the internet and its applications by children, participated in the committee’s first meeting on Friday.
Convened by the Lebanese Ministry of Information, the meeting introduced the committee’s objectives, working mechanism, and the framework for developing the national strategy.

Technologies have, throughout modern history, transformed how people live, work, govern their affairs, and exchange knowledge. Our region has been no exception. From the Translation Movement, which brought texts into Arabic, and the House of Wisdom in Baghdad—a major scientific and cultural institution—to groundbreaking achievements in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and engineering, the Arab world was not merely a consumer of knowledge but one of its foremost producers. 
New ideas and technologies were debated, refined, tested, and adapted to meet the needs of society.

Case Study #117 – AI and Epistemic Authority Rethinking Human-Machine Relationship in Knowledge Production