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Open Science for Digital Transformation: CAIS becomes Co-editor of Internet Policy Review Journal
UniverCity Bochum e.V. – Newly founded association helps shape Bochum as a city of knowledge together with partners
News from the Institute
EU project TAICo explores how AI can effectively support teachers
The Horizon Europe project TAICo will kick off at CAIS from March 24 to 26, 2025. It explores how artificial intelligence can be ethically and...
Recommendations for Independent and Effective Disinformation Monitoring in the Digital Space
CAIS supports the open letter from the Bertelsmann Foundation, CeMAS, Democracy Reporting International and ISD Germany, which provides recommendations to the new federal government for...
Perspectives of Open Sciences in a Digitalized Democracy
On April 1, 2025, Dr. Josephine Schmitt from the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) will present the CAIS Research Incubator at the 5th specialist...
How the heat transition is taking shape in Bochum
How district heating works and the opportunities it offers for sustainable heat supply will be discussed by experts on March 19.
The Influence of Big Tech: Power and Politics in the Digital Age
The role of major technology companies in the digital era is the focus of an engaging online discussion by Amerikahaus NRW e.V. with Christoph Bieber...
Digital Modernization of Elections
Christoph Bieber discusses possibilities for modernizing and digitizing election organization and execution in the program Breitband.
Infographic on the federal election 2025: election organization, parties, logistics, municipalities
The DDI team has developed an interactive graphic which depicts the challenges of election organization in the areas of electoral bodies, parties, logistics and municipalities.
The arc from technology to people
Hendrik Heuer will speak at the panel discussion “Der Bogen von der Technik zum Menschen” (The arc from technology to people) at the University of...
Latest Publications
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany
As a result of her two-month fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney, Tetiana Gorokhova published an article in Innovation: The European Journal of Social...
The Role of the Circular Economy in Advancing Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Production
In the fall of 2024, Tetiana Gorokhova and other researchers published an article in the Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources on the circular economy as...
The violence of the majority: Rethinking AI positionality in decision-making
Mennatullah Hendawy’s article, published in the Internet Policy Review, criticizes how AI systems amplify societal biases through majority-centered data and utilitarian design principles.
AI Ethics Unwrapped: The role of ethical principles in AI development
In 2024, the article “AI Ethics Unwrapped: An Empirical Investigation of Ethical Principles in Collaborative Ideation Processes” was published, examining ethical principles in the AI...
Generative AI in academic writing: Does information on authorship impact learners’ revision behaviour?
In December 2024, Anna Radtke and Nikol Rummel published an article in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence presenting empirical findings on learners’ revision behavior when...
New article on AI in museum exhibitions published
Alisa Maksimova has published her article “Negotiation of Dominant AI Narratives in Museum Exhibitions” in the journal AI & Society.
A comparison of populist voices in extremist online videos
A content analysis shows how right-wing extremist and Islamist videos utilise populist communication patterns – with only minor differences.
Latest Publication in “Navigating Research Data and Methods”
New Guidelines published in “Navigating Research Data and Methods” with the title: “Overview: Participatory Research Approaches and their Importance for Digital Transformation Research “