Nina Hahne

Calling international postdocs! 🌍 This is your chance to spend three months at a UA Ruhr university to prepare a joint third-party funding application. Research Academy is offering a monthly scholarship of €1,500 for stays in 2026. ⏳ Deadline: 22 March. 👉 www.research-academy-ruhr.de//programm/wr...

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[New paper] You are using ChatGPT?

Toni Lorente & Kathrin Gardhouse examine the applicability of the Digital Services Act to ChatGPT, arguing that it should be classified as a hybrid of the two types of hosting services: online search engines AND platforms policyreview.info/articles/ana...

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[New paper] Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU #DSA, By Philipp Darius @hertieschool.bsky.social, Johannes Breuer @cais-research.bsky.social, Simon Kruschinski & Sebastian Stier @gesis.org, Felicia Loecherbach, & Jasmin Riedl policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Kann #TikTok süchtig machen? Laut #EU Kommission kann die Plattform durch ihr Design Suchtmechanismen verstärken. Im Breitband-Podcast hat Matthias C. Kettemann mit @bene3000.bsky.social über diese Vorwürfe gesprochen & sie rechtlich eingeordnet.

👉 Ganze Folge: www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Join us as a doctoral researcher at the @cais-research.bsky.social in #Bochum to develop AI tools for collaborative fact-checking and media literacy!
Start: April 1, 2026
Deadline: March 1, 2026
More information here: stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246

📗 If you are interested in learning more about alternative economic organisation models based on cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership, this @policyr.bsky.social special issue with numerous case studies is just the thing for you. 💎 #openaccess

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator…

The NY FAIR News Act would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne...

Digitale Souveränität - Sollten Medien auf dezentralen Netzwerken unterwegs sein? Sollten Medienhäuser auf Plattformen wie Mastodon unterwegs sein, um dort ihre Inhalte zu verbreiten und mit ihrem Publikum in Austausch zu kommen?

🎙️Sollten Medien auf dezentralen Netzwerken unterwegs sein?
CAIS-Forscher Marco Wähner sprach am 30. Jan. 2026 im Podcast „Nach Redaktionsschluss“ mit Nils Schaumburg, Pia Behme und Martin Holland (heise) über #DigitaleSouveränität: www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitale-sou...
@marco-waehner.bsky.social

Sayaka Murata's 2016 Akutagawa winner, Convenience Store Woman, led the recent boom in translated Japanese fiction. Her stories dissect how society's expectations don't stand up to scrutiny. Her protagonists seem oddball, but she claims anxieties about "not being human enough" are "very normal".

Just a few days left to apply for our Internet and Society #Fellowship, a six-week #research programme in #Berlin. It includes a one-week sprint closely connected to the institute's new focus area “Democratic Change and Knowledge”. Deadline: 31 January.

👉 Apply now: www.hiig.de/en/call-for-...

Ula Furgał (Copyright Ula Furgał)

[New editor] Welcome Ula! Ula Furgał is joining our editorial team as an academic editor. We're very pleased to have you with us. Your presence will strengthen Internet Policy Review.
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Cookie-Banner nerven? Am 28.1. laden HIIG & @ecdigitalfuture.bsky.social zum Launch von #Consenter ein: Mit der kostenlosen Browsererweiterung verwalten Sie #Datenschutz-Einstellungen zentral & rechtssicher. Keynote: @jeah.bsky.social, Vorstellung: Max von Grafenstein.

👉 www.hiig.de/events/conse...

This moment of global change is fraught with dangers.

And Europe must be ready to change even faster.

To become more independent. For its own future.

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[New paper] Open data meets data justice, By @io-pgi-kuleuven.bsky.social's Caterina Santoro, @cis-cnrs.bsky.social's Ramya Chandrasekhar and U of Amsterdam's Stefania Milan policyreview.info/articles/ana... #opendata #datajustice

Sollten sich Forschende aktiv gegen populistische und autoritäre Tendenzen in der Gesellschaft engagieren? Am 5.2. diskutiert @guemuesay.bsky.social diese Frage gemeinsam mit Smail Rapic und @uweschneidewind.bsky.social. Moderation: Christine Volkmann.

👉Teilnehmen: www.wuppertal-live.de/608217

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
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"The so-called Digital Omnibus, a set of deregulatory measures that ran contrary to the EU’s previous efforts to regulate the digital economy, took many by surprise," say Šitera & Eberle in their latest op-ed 1/2

Gruppenfoto der Vertreter:innen des Netzwerks der Institute für Digitalisierungsforschung mit Bundesministerin Dorothee Bär.

Portraitfoto von Prof. Tim A. Majchrzak

Portraitfoto von Dorothee Bär

Portraitfoto von Prof. Christoph Bieber

Heute tauschten sich Bundesministerin Dorothee Bär und das NIfD-Netzwerk aus, wie #Digitalisierungsforschung Demokratie & digitale Souveränität stärkt. Das CAIS war mit Tim Majchrzak & Christoph Bieber vertreten.
🔗 www.cais-research.de/news/bundesm...
@drbieber.bsky.social
📸 Fotos: Mo Wüstenhagen

Platform Badges for Civic Communication How can platforms address distortions in the digital attention economy without restricting free expression excessively? This blog post explores how new incentive structures can promote constructive co...

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

@thejanrau.bsky.social, @tobiasmast.bsky.social & Jan-Ole Harfst explore how new incentive structures can promote constructive communication on digital platforms.

Media Research Blog ➡️ leibniz-hbi.de/en/platform-...

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.

Lunchtime Talk: Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy - CAIS It’s increasingly understood that climate change is in large part a story of class struggle. Traditionally, this is taken to mean conflicts between the wealthy and the working class, or […]

🎤 Join us for our first #LunchtimeTalk of 2026!
Prof. Dr. Anne Pasek, newly started CAIS Fellow, will talk about "Examining the role of the digital sector in shaping climate policy".
📅 January 14, 2026 | 1:30 PM
📍 At CAIS in Bochum & online
www.cais-research.de/en/event/lun...
@apasek.bsky.social

Important reading on border AI; op-ed by Sarah Fathallah 👇

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[New article] "Based on survey data from 6 EU countries (N=2,889), we examine differences in perceptions of personal vs. societal harm and their implications for individual control preferences and support for regulation" - Gagrčin, Toth, Schaetz, Naab, & Emmer policyreview.info/articles/ana...

Who are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung.

Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

#Stellenausschreibung: Wir suchen eine*n Senior Researcher*in & Projektleitung zur Gestaltung & Entwicklung unseres Forums „Innovation, Unternehmertum & Gesellschaft“ am HIIG in #Berlin. TV-L 14, Vollzeit (mind 75%), Sichtung Bewerbungen ab 1. Februar.

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18 spannende Science-Fiction-Filme, die uns 2026 erwarten | 1E9.community Auch das Jahr 2026 verspricht ein spannendes Kino- und Streaming-Jahr zu werden. Zahlreiche Science-Fiction-Filme sollen im Kino, auf Netflix...

Auch das Jahr 2026 verspricht ein spannendes Kino- und Streaming-Jahr zu werden. Zahlreiche Science-Fiction-Filme sollen im Kino, auf Netflix, Amazon Prime Video und Co. ihre Premiere feiern. #sfcd #film #sciencefiction #kino #netflix #amazon #DisneyPlus #AppleTVPlus #streaming

The Battle for Cognitive Liberty in the Age of Corporate AI | TechPolicy.Press AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch.

AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch. There is still time, barely, to design systems that invite diversity of thought rather than collapse it into averages and subject it to algorithmic manipulation, she writes.

New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy.

What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues.

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