CALL FOR PAPERS!!! Special issue on creativity & copyright in the shadow of genAI. We're organizing an online workshop for discussing paper outlines or ideas on February 27, 2026. More info here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Deadline for full papers is 30 September 2026.

👾Please share our CALL for contributions to the inaugural conference of SEASON / The Search Engine & Society Network / This September in Hamburg, Germany. Submit a paper, abstract, workshop, panel or any other engaging format by 30 April. We are flexible :-) More here: searchenginesandsociety.net

Can #AI #ethics be truly universal? Astrid Mager et al. argue for situated ethics—highlighting how local contexts shape global AI principles like privacy & accountability. A call for more inclusive, community-driven AI policy. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New publication Situated Ethics in Media, Culture & Society by Magdalena Eitenberger, Jana Winter, Barbara Prainsack, Christiane Wendehorst, Payal Arora & me: lnkd.in/d6viktJk Big thank you to Payal & Simone Natale for putting together the Special Issue Situating AI: Global media approaches to AI

Morgen Nachmittag findet eine Diskussion zu Demokratieverhandlungen für den digitalen Raum der Freiheit statt: Linz, im Wissensturm, 14-19h. Mit Magdalena Taube, Clemens Apprich & mir - ich freue mich!! lnkd.in/gqpa_XQm mit Dank an Martin Wassermair für die Organisation! @dorftv.bsky.social

The map is not the territory. Interesting discussions today on mapping and modelling at the Villa Vigoni. Great sidenote by Avi Bernstein on why light shines contra-factually from the North in Swiss Maps. 👉 The Swiss "illumination" controversy in the 1920s: blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2024/01/c...

From #CentralEurope to the #Balkans, and on to #EasternEurope, people know what’s at stake. ✊🏻🌹

✨ #callforpapers ✨ - First STS India Network Conference in Delhi, 15-17 December 2025 - including tracks on histories of STS, digital STS, feminist STS and environmental STS: stsin.org/stsinc25/ #cfp #sts @ushar.bsky.social

to all search engine researchers out there!!

morgen abend!! www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

To what extent can public datasets address questions related to urgent issues? We're exploring this with "datatesting" a new @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social project with @databarometer.bsky.social @silvanavf.bsky.social @esimperl.bsky.social @odihq.bsky.social & more! jonathangray.org/2024/11/05/d...

Es sind gerade so viel Österreicher angekommen, es ist wie Grado im Juli