On Day 2 of the 2026 DMRC Summer School, delegates joined workshops on data donation, online safety, socio-technical grounded theory, and intersectional approaches to digital media research.
DMRC Chief Investigators also delivered a back-to-back-to-back seminar with the broad theme of re-thinking media for the platform age.
A major highlight of the day was the research translation roundtable discussion that explored opportunities at institutions, common pitfalls to avoid, and encouraged participants to share their own research translation experiences.

OpenForum Europe (OFE), the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) today announced the official launch of Open Technology Research (OTR) — a strategic partnership designed to strengthen the global open technology research community and advance evidence-based policymaking around open technologies. Open technologies — including software, data, and standards — underpin today’s...

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The DMRC’s 2026 Summer School kicked off today at QUT Kelvin Grove campus featuring inspiring and thought-provoking training by world leading researchers.
With over 75 delegates in attendance, today’s sessions explored a range of topics including analyzing large video collections using GenAI, discovering your teaching philosophy, instructions for systematic literature reviews, unpacking social biases in CSS, analyzing sound and music in content, and multimodal research using the image machine.

Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards (OTKJA) are now open. 

Presented by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, the Open the Knowledge Awards recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.

Der Wissenschaftsrat berät die Regierungen des Bundes und der Länder in allen Fragen zur Entwicklung der Wissenschaft, der Forschung und der Hochschulen. Er verfolgt das Ziel, in Deutschland ein leistungsstarkes Wissenschaftssystem zu ermöglichen, das vielfältig miteinander vernetzt ist und in die Gesellschaft hineinwirkt.
Zum 1. Februar 2026 hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier vier neue Mitglieder in den Wissenschaftsrat berufen. Darunter ist auch Jura-Professorin Eva-Maria Kieininger von der Universität Würzburg.
Leiterin eines Lehrstuhls an der Jura-Fakultät

Interview with Guilherme Flynn Paciornik.
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in latin america, can be read here. 
Image by Carlotta Artioli, Instagram @charl_art.

In his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs (MIT Press), Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. The languages in this volume ask programmers to write code in the form of prayer to the Greek gods, or as a pattern of empty folders, or to type code in tandem with another programmer, each with one hand on the keyboard, their rhythm and synchrony signifying computer action.

Israel’s war on Lebanon was not merely a military confrontation broadcast on screens. At its core, it was a war of narratives, produced moment by moment on social media, outside the monopoly of traditional media and beyond closed partisan frameworks. In this space, women did not appear only as victims or humanitarian symbols, but as political actors actively producing the narrative itself.

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Dans le cadre des Matinées de la justice, nous vous invitons à la conférence sur « La justice de genre à l’heure des reculs de la protection sociale : femme/mère/travailleuse. Les étranges postures du néolibéralisme« , organisée par le Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), l’antenne sherbrookoise du Réseau québécois en études féministes (RéQEF) et la Chaire de recherche du Canada en étude féministe.
Date : Lundi, 30 mars 2026
Heure : 10H – 11H30
Lieu : En ligne (zoom)

Oorlog, overstromingen en pandemieën: hoe bereiden we ons voor op rampen die steeds dichterbij komen? De persoonlijke zoektocht van universitair docent Ot van Daalen mondde uit in het boek Voorbereid, waarin hij ingaat op de weerbaarheid van onze vrije samenleving. ‘Ik heb net als veel mensen een onrustig gevoel bij wat er gebeurt in de wereld.’
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By Sukriti, Jhalak Kakkar, Shashank Mohan Introduction The Indian government gave formal written inputs to the Elements Paper and actively participated in its online public consultation. However, it did not provide written inputs to subsequent drafts for the WSIS+20 outcome document. Notably, India’s formal written input to the Elements Paper was separate from the G77’s […]

Shortly before the end of the 2025/26 winter semester, the Carinthian Academic Championships in gymnastics took place once again. The competition was divided into the following three categories: ‘External’, ‘Sports Students’ and ‘Club Gymnasts’.
The performances were generally very impressive. All teams participated with great ambition and commitment. Right from the start, the teams’ entrance and the perfect choreography rounded off this event in an impressive manner.

The American company Oracle and Lebanon’s Minister of State for Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Kamal Shehadeh, recently signed an undisclosed strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to train 50,000 people from the private and public sector in different technologies.

While the agreement was framed as a “free grant” to suggest an achievement for the ministry, it comes with its own set of unique challenges to Lebanon’s digital sovereignty. 

Italy’s media landscape is on the brink of a major shift. In this piece, we analyse how this acquisition could trigger the first use of the new EMFA tool to assess threats to media pluralism and editorial independence.