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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

In dem ORF-Beitrag „Digitaler Humanismus von KI gefordert“ von Siegfried Steinlechner geht es um digitalen Humanismus und wie er durch den rasanten Fortschritt von Künstlicher Intelligenz unter Druck gerät. Der Artikel erschien am 27. Mai online unter science.orf.at und entstand im Zusammenhang mit der Digital Humanism Conference (dighum) in Wien.

Dating apps have often replaced our mutual acquaintances as trusted matchmakers. But should we trust the tech companies behind them? Balázs Bodó untangles the spider web of trust in our digitalized society. Bodó sees a 'systematic breakdown of trust in society'. He has recently been appointed as Professor of Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance.
The post Can we trust dating apps to find us a partner? appeared first on IVIR.

In May, we brought the community together again for a special training session to enable trainers to deliver the ‘Quality and Consistent Data with Open Data Editor’ course locally.
The post School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Com a participação de lideranças indígenas, acadêmicas e ativistas, iniciativa propôs  articulação entre justiça socioambiental e governança digital

Journée d'étude du GdT Politiques environnementales du numérique, 19 juin 2025, Saint-Martin-d’Hères (Isère).
L’article Numérique et soutenabilité, quels usages de la modélisation ? est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Can digital tools help combat loneliness in old age? Care facilities are rethinking their role as inclusive, connected places in the community.
The post Opportunities to combat loneliness: How care facilities are connecting neighborhoods appeared first on HIIG.

Mit dem neuen Bachelorstudiengang Pflegewissenschaft setzt die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) einen Meilenstein in der akademischen Pflegeausbildung in Bayern. In nur sieben Semestern erwerben Studierende zwei Abschlüsse: den Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) und den Abschluss als Pflegefachfrau /-mann. Ein besonderer Vorteil: Während des gesamten dualen Studiums erhalten die Studierenden eine monatliche Vergütung.

Los Angeles, June 4, 2025
Dear Geert—

The Carinthian Academic Beach Volleyball Championships took place on the outdoor facilities of the University Sports Institute Klagenfurt on June 3, 2025 in perfect conditions. The champions were determined in the women’s, men’s and mixed competitions.

Les générateurs « text to image » – DALL·E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion ou le tout récent module intégré à GPT-4o – bouleversent la création visuelle à un rythme qui rappelle l’apparition de l’appareil photo ; les mêmes reproches de « procédé mécanique » qui furent autrefois adressés aux photographes refont surface aujourd’hui contre les artistes utilisateurs·trices d’IA (M. Kummer, Das urheberrechtlich schützbare Werk, Berne 1968, p. 207).