Jaja, "Big Tech muss weg", I know. Aber wir brauchen auch Ideen, wie wir Nischen-Plattformen in den Mainstream bekommen. Was kann die Politik tun, um Mastodon, Bluesky und Co Luft zum Atmen zu verschaffen? Well, be my guest: --> unser neues Policypaper verlinkt --> ExecSum im Thread

Excellent editorial 👇 about #human vs #AI generated writing. "…(human) writing is not only about reporting results; it also provides a tool to uncover new thoughts and ideas." ⚒️ 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Please share: Open position @tu-dortmund.de and @cais-research.bsky.social ⤵️

👀 Aufbauend auf Forschungsarbeiten von Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann am HBI – u.a. im Rahmen des #DSA Research Networks – wurde unter seiner Leitung und der Mitwirkung von @kmosene.bsky.social am @hiigberlin.bsky.social nun ein Code of Conduct für die #ContentModeration veröffentlicht 📖👇

🚀 Apply now for the #CAISfellowship in 2027! You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany. ⏰ Apply by December 19, 2025 👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll... #CAIScollege #Bochum

Podcast: Vor dem Hintergrund der wachsenden Zahl von mit KI produzierten Büchern warnt die Buchwissenschaftlerin Prof. Corinna Norrick-Rühl vor den gesellschaftl. Gefahren. Gleichwohl habe der technologische Fortschritt, insbes. Social Media, auch positive Auswirkungen auf den Buchmarkt. #booktok

Der chinesische TikTok-Betreiber legt es darauf an, weltweit Einfluss zu gewinnen. Emily Baker-White dokumentiert, dass ihm dabei fast jedes Mittel recht ist. #TikTok

⚠️ How are workers led movements against AI shaping climate action in the tech industry? Join us for a book presentation on worker led movements by Tamara Kneese (Data & Society) with Sana Ahmad (Weizenbaum-Institute). Register now: buff.ly/SnAZkHi @tamigraoh.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social

Am Mittwochabend, 18.30 Uhr, stellt unsere Ex-Kollegin Hanna Hamel ihr neues Buch vor. Gemeinsam mit Philipp Schönthaler spricht sie darüber, wie sich Schreiben, Lesen und Veröffentlichen unter den Bedingungen der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung verändern. www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltun...

#ContentModeration braucht klare Regeln. Unser neuer Verhaltenskodex “Strengthening Trust” zeigt mit zehn Leitlinien, wie Plattformen die Zusammenarbeit von Mensch und Maschine in der Inhaltemoderation fairer und transparenter gestalten können. 👉 Zum Code of Conduct: graphite.page/coc-strength...

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

🌏 💻 Wie können digitale Technologien so gestaltet werden, dass sie der Umwelt und den Menschen gleichermaßen dienen? Darum geht es beim nächsten Weizenbaum Forum. 📅 11. November, 18:00h 📍Online und in Berlin 👉 buff.ly/szhkZc3

More from @josefbeery.bsky.social's zine+letterpress event @uvalibrary.bsky.social Zines Now! series last week w/some of his innovations w/movable lasercut acrylic shapes, which can be used for patterns (pic 2) or as pieces of movable type (pic 3 says "Zine Zone" printed); +his BookBlossom wood type

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Kick-off in Bochum! 🎉 From Nov 5–7, 2025, we welcome 24 international partners of the EU funded HEI-TRAIN project at CAIS. Representatives from Lithuania, Latvia, Germany & Ukraine will explore how higher education can foster entrepreneurship, innovation & digital future skills sustainably.

🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...

🤝🌎 Excited to kick off the third installment of #Digimeet today, bringing together around 80 digital researchers from 16 countries across the EU, UK, South America, the US, and India! Our focus this year is a deep dive into #PlatformGovernance & #Power. #DigitalResearch #TechPolicy

🚀 Today’s #DigiMeet - the joint Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting! Early career researchers gather online to discuss digitalisation, platform governance & power. Keynote by Tobias Mast + exciting presentations from young researchers. Full program: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig...

Today at #digimeet25: Tobias Mast from @bredowinstitut.bsky.social reflects on fundamental problems of #platform #governance and on how scientists as experts can keep their independence in the EU process of co-regulation. @cais-research.bsky.social @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

🔔 Free workshop places for postdocs of all research fields of the University Alliance Ruhr! Research Academy provides support for your future career orientation and the associated decision-making processes. 🚀💡Sign up now! 👉 www.research-academy-ruhr.de/news/news004...

⌛ Reminder: Submit your contribution to the Special Issue "Inclusive by Design? Participatory Governance and the Future of Digital Public Spaces" by October 15. ℹ️ policyreview.info/events/call-... #CAISdigitalfutures2025

🍋 Realismus im Zeitalter von KI: Über makellose Zitronen im Netz und eine Mona Lisa🖼️, die vor allem auf Selfies existiert, diskutieren @jbirken.bsky.social, Chr. Welzbacher & @schalkewins.bsky.social am 22.10. - ein Blick auf aktuelle Debatten und die eigene Bildwahrnehmung. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3754mhry

It’s almost time! This Thursday, our conference “Creating Spaces for Digital Futures” starts at the Makerspace of Ruhr University Bochum. 📺 Join the livestream of our panel "Academic Freedom: Foundations for the Future" on Friday, 9:30 AM: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... #CAISdigitalfutures2025

📢 Register now for DigiMeet 2025! An interdisciplinary forum for early career researchers on digitalisation & global platform governance 🌐💻We’ll discuss power dynamics, societal implications & policy challenges in a rapidly changing platform landscape!

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025. More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

Registration is open for #DigiMeet2025 on Nov 6!🎉 Join 16 talks & discussions on platform regulation, community building & governance with #EarlyCareerResearchers 🗣️Keynote by Tobias Mast 👉Program + Registration: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

#CfP Join the debate on: 📍 #Participatory governance 📍 (Dis)integrative dynamics of #digital discourse 📍 Imagined futures of inclusive digital public spaces 📄 Abstract due 15 Oct 25 📄 Full paper due 1 March 26 All papers peer-reviewed. @cais-research.bsky.social 👉 policyreview.info/events/call-...

#CfP: Inclusive by design? Special issue on #participatory governance & the future of #digital public spaces! Edited by @jottbees.bsky.social @marco-waehner.bsky.social Christiane Eilders & Tim A. Majchrzak. @cais-research.bsky.social 👉 Submit abstract by 15 Oct: policyreview.info/events/call-...

Happy birthday to Kenji Miyazawa! Celebrate with the RJL podcast.

[Must-Read Essay] How the new digital knowledge order is impacting science, By @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬'s Donya Alinejad policyreview.info/articles/ana... #impact #science

#Stellenangebot 🚀 📅 Frist: 21. August 2025 Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in PräDoc (all gender) für das Team Research Data & Methods (RD&M) 👉 www.cais-research.de/aktuelles/st... #Karriere #Digitalisierungsforschung #TeamCAIS #CAIS #Bochum

[New Op-ed] Not greenwashing, but still… A closer look at big tech’s 2025 sustainability reports, By Thomas Le Goff of @telecomparis.bsky.social policyreview.info/articles/new... #sustainanility #GreenTech #GreenIT #CSR

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here

As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

WOW! Bereits über 100.000 Personen nutzen den #KICampus fünf Jahre nach dem Start im Jahr 2020. 🥳 Vielen Dank, dass ihr dabei seid! 💜 Bis 2030 möchten wir mindestens 500.000 Lernende & 100 Hochschulen mit unseren Online-Kursen, Videos, Podcasts & Tools zu KI erreicht haben. 🚀 #AILiteracy

🎯 Endspurt für das DigiMeet 2025! Noch bis zum 31. Juli könnt ihr eure Abstracts einreichen, um am 6. November 2025 beim virtuellen Netzwerktreffen für Early Career Researchers dabei zu sein! 👉 Jetzt Abstract (max. 200 Wörter) einreichen: www.cais-research.de/event/digime...

💡 𝐖𝐢𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦 𝐊𝐈-𝐙𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐊𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧? In unserem neuen Beitrag auf dem Verantwortungsblog beleuchten wir, wie GEMA, VG WORT und VG Bild-Kunst mit der Herausforderung umgehen, dass KI-Systeme mit urheberrechtlich geschützten Inhalten trainiert werden.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

[New Call for Papers] Big tech in global security governance, guest-edited by ‪@mg-borelli.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social's Ksenia Ermoshina & Francesca Musiani and @gulnarazakharova.bsky.social‬ Deadline: 400-word abstracts by 21 September 2025. policyreview.info/events/call-...

🚨 Call for Participation – #DigiMeet2025 🚨 Topic: Platform Governance & Power – Between Control, Ethics, and Societal Dynamics A vibrant forum to: ✅ Share and discuss ongoing research ✅ Connect across disciplines and institutions ✅ Spark ideas for new (ideally collaborative!) projects

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

🔍 #CallForParticipation for #DigiMeet2025! Are you a #EarlyCareerResearcher exploring digitalization & society? Join us on Nov 6 for insights on Platform Governance & Power. ℹ️ About the virtual event: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... Submit your abstract by July 31: easychair.org/account2/sig...

Mark Zuckerberg will wieder mal an unsere Daten – dieses Mal, um seine KI zu trainieren. Nutzer:innen müssen aktiv widersprechen, das ist nur noch bis Montag, 26. Mai, rechtzeitig möglich. Wir erklären, warum das eine gute Idee ist und wie es funktioniert. netzpolitik.org/2025/meta-ki...

I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨

Connect with peers and present your research on Platform Governance & Power at #DigiMeet2025. 🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | Online 💡 Submit your abstract by 31 July 2025. 🔗 Learn more: www.bidt.digital/veranstaltun... The event is hosted by @cais-research.bsky.social, HBI, @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social & bidt.

📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...

🔍 #CallForParticipation: #DigiMeet2025 🔍 Doctoral & postdoc researchers - submit your work on platform governance & power! 📅 Nov 6, 2025 (virtual) 📝 Submissions by July 31, 2025 🔗Further Information here: www.cais-research.de/en/event/dig... @bidt.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

🌠 🔭 What is the ideal platform of the future? And how can it be realized? Come to #DigiMeet2025 and share your research and ideas! More information ⤵️

Check out this new special issue on content moderation on digital platforms in the Internet Policy Review! 👀⤵️

💥 Neuer Job am CAIS? 💥 Bewirb Dich jetzt bis zum 07. April, wenn Du an einem internationalen Fachjournal mitarbeiten möchtest. ⤵️ #philologie