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New Professorship for “Digital Transformation in Work and Society”
Digital Responsibility in Focus: Federal Minister Wildberger Visits Institutes for Digitalization Research
News from the Institute
VHS and AI – Pretty Good Friends?
From 26 to 28 November, the Conference of Major City Adult Education Centres from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will take place in Duisburg. Dr. Matthias...
Project Strengthens Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Education
How can universities and organizations foster entrepreneurial thinking and put innovation into practice? This question is at the heart of the HEI-TRAIN partner meeting, taking...
Adaptive Support Promotes Self-Regulated Learning in Adult Education
At the 20th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL), held from September 15-19, 2025, in Newcastle and Durham, UK, the paper by CAIS researchers...
Connected for the digital Society
Since 2021, the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) has been part of the Network of Institutes for Digitalization Research (in German: Netzwerk der Institute...
CSR-Driven AI or AI-Driven CSR?
Dr. Tetiana Gorokhova and her co-authors will present their research on artificial intelligence and responsibility as part of the HEI-TRAIN project. The presentation will take...
How do humans learn with the use of AI?
On October 25, 2025, Dr. Astrid Wichmann gives a workshop on the topic of “Wie lernt der Mensch unter dem Einsatz von KI und was...
AI as Automated Communication during Election Campaigns
On December 10, 2025, Prof. Christoph Bieber gives a lecture as part of the lecture series “Protecting Democracy,” together with Prof. Alessandra Zarcone at the...
Latest Publications
Climate Research in the Crossfire of Public Communication
Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt and Dr. Sabine Reich from the University of Bremen examine the public communication of climate researchers in an increasingly polarized social...
Adaptive Support Promotes Self-Regulated Learning in Adult Education
At the 20th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL), held from September 15-19, 2025, in Newcastle and Durham, UK, the paper by CAIS researchers...
CSR-Driven AI or AI-Driven CSR?
Dr. Tetiana Gorokhova and her co-authors will present their research on artificial intelligence and responsibility as part of the HEI-TRAIN project. The presentation will take...
Narrative, Creative – Immersive? The Immersive Potential of Right-Wing Extremist Communication on Social Media
In their book chapter, Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt and Sandra Kero examine how right-wing extremists use social media to make their narratives immersive and engage...
The Phase Model of Misinformation Interventions
CAIS researcher Prof. Hendrik Heuer will present his paper on October 20, 2025, at CSCW 2025 in Bergen, Norway. In it, he examines which measures...
Unravelling the Nation: Digital Contestations of Gendered Narratives in the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom Movement
On October 18, Dr. Mitra Shamsi will present her research at the conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR2025) and will also chair the...
Systematic Literature Review on LLMs for Content Analysis
A paper project involving CAIS researcher Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam will be presented on October 16, 2025, at AoIR2025 in Brazil. It examines how large language models...
Creating a Regulatory Ecosystem. The Case of Electoral Modernization in California
In his contribution to the Special Issue “Experimental Regulation” of the Cambridge Journal on AI: Law and Governance, Prof. Christoph Bieber analyzes the regulation of...
The Mediatization of Urban Development and Egypt’s New Administrative Capital
A paper by Dr. Mennatullah Hendawy was published in early October in the interdisciplinary journal Nature Cities. The study investigates how media influence urban development...