Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

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

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent awarded an SNSF Ambizione Grant

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

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

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The Digital Services Act has been in force for two years. Is it working as expected? A look at enforcement progress and geopolitical influences.
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What role do AI startups play in Germany’s position in the global AI race? This article draws on ten interviews to offer insight into their business models.
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KKHadi Amirpour, Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Technology at the University of Klagenfurt, received the Multimedia Rising Star Award at IEEE MMSP 2026 in Istanbul. In his talk, he demonstrated how video streaming can provide higher perceived quality by making the player more intelligent using self-training.

Marie-Therese Sekwenz is a postdoctoral researcher at IViR. She works with João Pedro Quintais on the NWO Vidi project Generative AI Content Moderation: Regulation for Fundamental Rights, which examines how EU law can address the moderation of generative AI content while protecting fundamental rights, particularly freedom of expression.
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Two student assistant positions are available in  General Sociology at the Department for Society, Knowledge and Politics, working with Ass.-Prof. Dr. Mathis Ebbinghaus, starting in late October or early November 2026. The positions are for 7 and 8 hours per week, respectively.

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

aau/MüllerSocial scientist Fredy Mora Gámez will join the University of Klagenfurt in October 2026 to launch his ERC Consolidator Grant project, “Handcrafted coalitions: Tantear through digital mapping beyond borders”. HANDigiCRAFT explores the social relationships and forms of knowledge that emerge around objects handcrafted by people on the move. Combining ethnography, collaborative crafting and digital mapping, it investigates how these objects connect people and create possibilities for solidarity across borders.

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully.