Projects

“Fostering Digital Pan-Africanism in AI Governance through Evidence and Action” (AI PAN-AFRICANISM) is a four-year, transdisciplinary research project that aims to rethink the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa. While AI increasingly influences areas such as access to information, health, and digital public services, global rules are mostly determined by the U.S., the EU, and China. African countries often have little influence in this regard.

Project Overview Social media platforms and the creator economy have become highly influential in the dissemination of information and in politics. The current use of generative AI, coupled with political developments in the U.S., will (…)

Since the coronavirus pandemic, religious services have been regularly broadcast online. Religious communities have been using social media for communication for many years. And the first robots are already being used in religious contexts. AI (…)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

The sub-project of the research group 'Communicative AI' (ComAI) examines how tech corporations establish rules for their products and how societal actors can exert influence on them.

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Subproject of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

Coordination project of the DFG/FWF Research Unit "Communicative AI" (ComAI)

The project Informed by Influencers (INDI) focusses on the way in which knowledge relevant to climate change is disseminated and consumed on social networks. The aim is to determine the proportion of social media posts (…)

This project analyzes how genealogy platforms shape and change media practices related to memory. It combines a mapping of platforms and an analysis of affordances with research into the lived experiences of users.

Funded by: Zentrale Forschungsförderung (ZF), Universität Bremen Project Overview My postdoctoral project “Value-driven Governance: European approaches to AI regulation” examines how values and ideologies shape the governance of AI systems in the European Union. Over (…)

The four-year EU Horizon Europe project REMIT (Reignite Multilateralism via Technology) creates policy-relevant knowledge on how technologies are governed globally. It further develops academic insights aimed to enable greater international cooperation on technology governance, specifically (…)