CAIS for Journalists
We find the right contact person for your digitization topic.
How can we design future technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in such a way that people can trust them? What impact will new educational technologies have on schools and educational organizations? And who owns our digital footprints in the smart city?
At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), we deal with these questions. It is important to us to communicate our research results clearly and comprehensibly. Our researchers are therefore happy to assist you with your research and answer your questions.
Together with journalists, we want to promote the public debate on digitalization topics and make it understandable for everyone. Whether it’s children’s technological curiosity, parents’ understanding of the impact of education or how senior citizens are adapting to digital changes in their everyday lives – we strive to make digitalization topics and our research on them tangible for everyone.
We are happy to answer your inquiries, arrange interviews and experts and provide approval and support for photo and film shoots.
Dr. Esther Laukötter
Consultant for science communication and press relations
esther.laukoetter@cais-research.de
Phone: +49 157 85001399
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Thematic expertise
DDI – Digital democratic Innovations
Expert: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bieber
How are political decision-making and social participation changing under the conditions of digitalization?
- Development and use of online voting and elections
- Political and social effects of smart city projects
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Educational technologies and artificial intelligence
Expert: Prof. Nikol Rummel
How can digitalization be used positively in an educational context? How can learners be supported by intelligent systems?
- Questions regarding the design and technical implementation of digital learning environments
- Challenges and opportunities of teaching in digital environments.
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Design of trustworthy artificial intelligence
Expert: Prof. Hendrik Heuer
As part of the research program, principles of trustworthy artificial intelligence are developed, technically implemented and tested together with users in practical fields of application. A particular focus is on social media and the question of how they can be improved.
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Social cohesion in digital media environments
Expert: Prof. Christiane Eilders
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Digital media, media literacy and prevention
Experts: Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Samuel T. Simon
What effects does the use of social media have on people’s behavior, emotions and ways of thinking? How does social media communication influence interpersonal relationships? What economic dynamics take place in social media that create ethically questionable interactions? What could ethical design of digital media offerings look like? How do extremist groups use social media for their purposes and what content do they disseminate?
Co-Creation, Innovation, Facilitation
Experts: Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt, Samuel T. Simon
How can you manage the balancing act in digital change when transformation involves both large (organizational) systems and individual change? What conditions must be met for digital transformation? What makes co-creative, collaborative work so difficult and why is it nevertheless so important as a contemporary approach to work?
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Press releases
Facts or fakes: How do I recognize trustworthy content on news sites? – Guest: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Heuer
Reliable information is incredibly important for all of us.
Better together: CAIS signs charter for respectful cooperation in the workplace
CAIS joins the new Bochum “Employers against Discrimination” initiative. Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders and Tim Pfenner sign the new charter.
German Institutes for Advanced Study strive for visibility and adopt position paper in Delmenhorst
On 4 and 5 October 2023, representatives of 15 German Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) met at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) for the half-year meeting of...
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CAIS in pictures
Here you can download printable portraits, logos and other image material.
If you have any questions regarding use, please contact Dr. Esther Laukötter.
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RUBIN Miniformat: Was bedeutet Vergessen in meiner Disziplin?
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What are we researching?
We address digital transformation in all its facets and test our research findings in practice.
Our research encompasses the social, political, economic, cultural and technical changes that accompany digitization. We investigate cross-cutting issues that cannot be researched in a compartmentalized manner. In our research programs, we interlink different disciplinary worlds from the social sciences and humanities to computer science. This holistic socio-technical approach encompasses both basic research and application-oriented questions. We use the results of our research in real laboratories together with actors from different areas of society to find exemplary solutions to concrete problems.
Who does research at CAIS?
We are a team of experienced and young researchers from different disciplines, who are in an intensive exchange with citizens and experts from the field.
Two scientific directors from the social sciences and computer science lead the research at CAIS. Professors from different disciplines coordinate the interdisciplinary research programs. Another professorship leads the Research Data & Methods (RDM) department, and the Ethical, Legal & Social Issues (ELSI) department is home to two professorships and one postdoctoral position. The CAIS’s own programs for the promotion of young researchers support them in their professional development. Dialogue with social groups and the public is organized by our science communication team.
In addition, as an employer we want to realize equality and diversity with a variety of different measures, which are formulated in an equality plan and support the compatibility of gainful employment and care work.
External research excellence is integrated through associated researchers and visiting scientists. We also initiate research partnerships and collaborative projects with partners from universities and other research institutions.
Research activities of our international fellows
How can smart shower heads reduce water consumption? How are municipalities in the USA using data analysis to combat the Corona pandemic? Do online activities harm mental and physical health?
Our International Fellows research digitization topics from very different perspectives. Find a suitable research project here.
Where can I find publications?
This list contains publications related to a fellowship, working group, or event at CAIS. Also listed are publications by team members.
CAIS Reports are work reports produced after the completion of a fellowship.