Events

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Prof. Dr. Emilija Gagrčin can be found here.

This talk discusses how data donation infrastructures can be used to study political behaviour on social media platforms. It introduces data donation as a way to access user-centric traces of political information exposure and engagement that are otherwise difficult to obtain, and reflects on key conceptual and methodological challenges such as sampling, validity, and ethics. Drawing on ongoing work, the presentation outlines how donated platform data can be linked to survey measures of attitudes and behaviour, and sketches opportunities for future collaborative projects in the broader field of political communication and platform research.

Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collectives, and social movements, to shape how AI is used, managed, deployed, negotiated, or refused at work. (…)

Abstract:   The project Informed by Influencers (INDI) focusses on the way in which knowledge relevant to climate change is disseminated and consumed on social networks, with a particular emphasis on short-video platforms such as TikTok, (…)

Abstract One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but at the same time, it is always situated in specific, local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study (…)

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Dr. Anke Stoll can be found here.

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Prof. Dr. Katrin Weller can be found here.

Abstract Generative AI has become a significant trend in visualization research and practice since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. Despite this, we do not know enough about how visualization professionals are actually using Generative (…)

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Prof. Dr. Ferruh Yilmaz can be found here.

The invitation to the event with the abstract of the lecture and more information about Prof. Dr. Greg Elmer can be found here.

Bio Axel Bruns is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for (…)

Abstract With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the (…)