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Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler in den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat von FIZ Karlsruhe gewählt
Wir gratulieren Prof. Dr. Sonja Schimmler zur Wahl in den Wissenschaftlichen Beirat des FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur.
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W100Interview
Über die digitale Ausstellung: Pionier, Skeptiker, Aktivist: Wendepunkte im Leben von Joseph Weizenbaum
Im Rahmen des Jubiläumsjahrs W/100 wurde eine digitale Ausstellung zu Joseph Weizenbaum entwickelt. Verschiedene Beiträge würdigen aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven den Namensgeber unseres Instituts und sein Lebenswerk. Wir haben mit dem Projektverantwortlichen Moritz Buchner gesprochen.
12.07.2024 -
Workshop
Internationaler Workshop zur Zukunft der Demokratie
Im Jahr 2024, in dem fast die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung zu politischen Wahlen aufgerufen ist, stellt sich verstärkt die Frage: Wohin steuert die Demokratie? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, veranstaltete das Weizenbaum-Institut einen internationalen Workshop mit dem Titel „Understanding Democracy and Illiberal Communication“.
12.07.2024
Research Foci
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Digital Technologies in Society
In this research focus, the connection between digitalization, participation and inequality is to be researched, the use of digital technologies for participation opportunities is to be tested and interventions against new inequalities are to be made. To this end, perspectives from business informatics, design research and computer science will be brought together.
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Digital Markets and Public Spheres on Platforms
In recent years, markets and publics have emerged on digital platforms, which are investigated in the four research groups of the focus area. Normatively, these platforms are in tension between public good orientation and economic imperatives. For their investigation, the perspectives of communication science, political science, economics, and computer science are brought together.
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Organizing Knowledge
Within this research focus we deal with questions about the workplace, the education system, and science. Above all we examine questions of openness and exclusion in the processing and organization of data and knowledge. In doing so, we draw on perspectives from computer science, business informatics, sociology, and innovation research.
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Digital Infrastructures in Democracy
This research focus examines the development of digital infrastructures and the resulting structural change in society. Special attention is given to tensions between security and freedom from the perspectives of law, sociology, computer science, and political science.
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Weizenbaum Digital Science Center
With the new Weizenbaum Digital Science Center, the Weizenbaum Institute establishes scientific offerings that create research, networking, orientation, and infrastructure services for interdisciplinary digitalization research and strengthen the coherence of research at the Weizenbaum Institute.
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Events
22.07.2024 - 04.11.2024
17:00 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr | online
The Data Workers Inquiry Speakers Series
Behind the glossy veneer of AI lies a hidden workforce of data workers who form the backbone of this technological revolution. In this series of events, data workers speak out about different aspects of their work.
23.09.2024 - 26.09.2024
Berlin, detailed information on location and schedule will follow soon
Symposium
PhD Summer School 2024: Gender, AI and Inclusive Work
The summer school is a joint project between the Weizenbaum Institute and FES Future of Work and takes place annually. The number of places is limited to a maximum of 16 PhD students from Social Science or related disciplines. The selection of participants is based on peer review and the excellence…
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