by Maurice Tietze | 29. October 2024
Our working group aims to bring together a variety of leading scholars from different disciplines and countries to study how industrial policy is actually done in Europe and beyond, and what the specific role of technology is therein. This promises not only to significantly advance the existing and rapidly growing literature on industrial policy and digital policy-making. It will also have practical relevance for the effectiveness and legitimacy of industrial and digital policy.
by Annika Gödde | 13. June 2024
The discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) is heavily focussed on text-to-text generators such as chat GPT. Less attention is paid to generative visual communication, which is currently gaining in popularity: AI images can be generated effortlessly with tools such as Stable Diffusion and are already being used in many contexts without their origin being obvious to the viewer. These images have the potential to fundamentally change the production, use and reception of images. The planned working group aims to close this gap and examine the topic of AI-generated images in a multidisciplinary way. In five workshops (three face-to-face, two virtual), we will analyse the characteristics and challenges of generative images (object-centred perspective), the production and presentation contexts (communicator-centred perspective) and the reception and media competence of users (reception- and usage-oriented perspective). The results will be presented in scientific publications and at a specialist conference. In addition, we are drawing up guidelines on the ethical use of generative images and are endeavouring to perpetuate the collaboration and obtain further funding.
by Maurice Tietze | 11. June 2024
Since the 1990s, politicians, policymakers, scholars, technical experts and representatives of the private sector and civil society have been discussing and struggling over the role of the state in the global governance of digital networks. During the early 2000s, and...
by Maurice Tietze | 6. March 2024
We are aiming to produce a joint publication in the format of a special issue in an international academic journal. Moreover, we also aim to publish a short article to the general public and the professional community of police organizations.
by Annika Gödde | 12. February 2024
Our project makes a critical intervention in this debate by examining how four groups of actors – the tech and academic community, non-profit advocacy organisations, states, and corporations – have influenced how we conceptualise internet freedom and evaluating the real-world consequences of their ideas
