Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting – DigiMeet 2023
Diversity in digital transformation
The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI), in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans Bredow Institute, invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to present their work at the joint Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting – DigiMeet.
DigiMeet will take place virtually on 28 November 2023, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm CET. Its special topic for 2023 is “Diversity in digital transformation.”
The main purpose of this interdisciplinary event is to provide a forum for early career researchers with a focus on digitalisation-related topics. DigiMeet offers opportunities for networking, discussing results and ideas, and gathering inspiration for new and ideally collaborative research projects.
Concept
Each year, our networking event addresses a topic that can be understood as a key concept in the ethical and human-centred design of digital transformation. While sustainability and data literacy were the focus topics in 2021 and 2022, questions of diversity will be highlighted in 2023. DigiMeet will give insight into the work of people who are actively working on diversity problems and possible solutions in the digital sphere, and show why it is important to take these issues into account for future research. Inspiring keynotes, presentations and workshops will deal with recent developments in this important area of digitalisation research.
Programme
09:30 – 10:00: Welcome and Introduction, Greeting by Prof. Dr. Hanna Krasnova (Director WI)
10:00 – 11:00: Keynote on “HateAid – Legitimately against hate on the internet. About an NGO’s fight for human rights in the digital space” by Franziska Benning, Internal Lawyer at HateAid gGmbH
11:00 – 12:30: Parallel Sessions (1-8)
1) Special Session A: Towards a diverse digital society (Chair by Dr. Annamaria Fabian, Uni Bayreuth/bidt)
- Samuel T. Simon (CAIS/RUB): Participatory agenda setting: Mapping the needs and topics of a diverse society in science.
- Katharina Leyrer (FAU Nuremberg/bidt): Beyond (information) diversity: Assessing the influence of internet information intermediaries on society.
- Verena Maren Straßburger (Charité/MSH): Towards a more comprehensive assessment of gender and diversity: Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS) and its application in a survey among medical school students.
- Andressa de Bittencourt Siqueira (PUCRS/Brazil): Diversity Implications through Automated Content Removal Systems: Lessons and Perspectives Based on the Oversight Board’s Decision Framework.
2) Special Session B: AI and diversity challenges (Chair by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer, TUM/bidt)
- Raimund Lehle (Uni Hohenheim): The Impact of Digitalization on discretionary decisions.
- Frauke Rohden (Univ. of Oslo, Norway): AI in medicine – solving or cementing knowledge gaps?
- Goda Klumbyte (Uni Kassel): Feminist methodologies for diversity and accountability in machine learning systems design
- Dr. Kendra Pöhlmann (OTH Regensburg): Diversity: Important, Fair, and Sustainable – But Often Overlooked in AI Applications.
3) Special Session C: Inclusivity and Persistence in digital learning environments (Chair by Dr. Gergana Vladova, WI)
- Dr. Sina Lenski (DIE Bonn): Unlocking the Potential of Multimedia in E-Assessments: A Journey Towards Inclusive and Effective Testing.
- Dr. Nikolai Zinke (DIE Bonn): Early Identification of Dropout: The Role of Test Anxiety in Higher Education.
- Kirsten Gropengießer (FernUni Hagen): User-Centered Evaluation of Dynexite E-Exam Software.
- Maria Klose (Uni Bamberg/bidt): Who keeps up? Predicting persistence in non-formal online courses using machine learning.
4) Digital technologies, education and life-long learning (Chair by Prof. Dr. Nikol Rummel, CAIS/RUB)
- Dr. Hendrik Heuer (Uni Bremen): Towards Socio-Technical Interventions Against Misinformation.
- Clara Strathmann (UDE): Diversity fair privacy protection in digital environments.
- Philipp L. Marten (RUB): Can adolescents trust the Internet? Fostering resilience against online misinformation with evaluation strategies.
- Jana Steinbacher (HSE): IDR-24: Measuring adaptability to remote learning and teaching conditions.
5) Governance of innovation in digital democracies: Platforms and Communication (Chair by Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettemann, HBI)
- Lucia Morales Lizarraga (Univ. de Guadalajara/Mexico): Online radical right discourses about identify in Germany: The Alternative für Deutschland in Twitter.
- Eduardo Barbabela (Univ. of Lisbon/Portugal): Digital Platforms and Populist Politicians: Implications for Contemporary Democracies.
- Andressa Costa (Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal/WI): Mobilizing against democracy: The use of cognition and emotions on social media for autocratization in Brazil.
- Adam Feher (Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands): How to enforce platforms’ liability?
6) Governance of innovation in digital democracies: Artificial Intelligence (Chair by Dr. Johannes Breuer, CAIS/GESIS)
- Patrick Schwabl (LMU München/bidt): Computational scaling of political positions from textual data using word embeddings.
- Tetyana Oleksiyuk (CAIS): International Standards of Access to Official Information and Digital Democracy Development.
- Paul Friedl (HU Berlin/WI): Escaping scraping: the (new) laws and politics of web scraping in an age of generative AI.
- Lea Biere (Uni Paderborn): Equity, Efficiency, and Democracy in Education: Analysing the Role of Learning Analytics and AI.
7) Ethical and privacy considerations for the digital life (Chair by Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling, FAU Nuremberg/bidt)
- Maria Pawelec (Uni Tübingen): Decent deepfakes? Academic and commercial developers’ ethical considerations, and how they may influence deepfake governance.
- Victor Vicente (Univ. of São Paulo/Brazil): Metaverse, virtual reality and the production of presence.
- Ziyin Li (Zhejiang Univ./China): “Seeing someone 3.0”: The Intimacy of Chinese Youth in the age of Deep Mediatization.
8) AI, work and tools/Digital economy (Chair by Prof. Dr. Martin Krzywdzinski, WI)
- Laura Lohoff (LMU München/bidt): From Exploration to Exploitation: Aligning Digital Innovation in Organizations.
- Dr. Tetiana Gorokhova (CAIS): Digitalisation: Catalyzing the Transition to a Circular Economy.
- Tatjana Graf (Univ. of Lucerne, Switzerland): Pay me if you can: Negotiating diversity through digital financial infrastructure.
- Alphoncina Lyamuya (Univ. of Southern California, USA): Digitalization of Humanitarian Aid Delivery in Sites of Forced Displacement.
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30: Open Spaces
Open Space 1
- Dr. Sabine Lang (FAU Nuremberg): Using computational methods for provenance research: chances, challenges and possible risks
Open Space 2
- Dr. Alisa Maksimova (CAIS): Learning about AI in museums: how exhibitions present new technology to the public
Open Space 3
- Samuel Simon (CAIS/RUB): Persona Co-Creation Workshop: Imagining the role of the facilitator in digital transformation research processes
Open Space 4
- Alexandra Florea (Uni Paderborn): [pilot] Computational Demonstrator for Scholarly Literature Review
Open Space 5
- Dr. Mitra Shamsi (CAIS): Practicing Digital Feminism During the Rise of Nationalism in the Iranian Women, Life, Freedom Uprising
Open Space 6
- Viddy Ranawijaya (Uni Erfurt): Mapping Digitalization Policies in Southeast Asia: A Systematic Literature Review
14:30 – 16:00: Parallel Workshops
- Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt (CAIS): “Resilience for Researchers – Dealing with hate speech and right-wing agitation in the academic context”
- Prof. Dr. Frauke Mörike (TU Dortmund): “Actually relevant?! … Designing inclusive work systems”
16:00 – 16:15: Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00: Roundtable Discussion: Intersectional Perspectives on Digitalisation and AI
Chair: Katharina Mosene, HBI
Experts: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katrin Köppert (HGB Leipzig), Pia Sombetzki (AlgorithmWatch), Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer (Frauenloop)
How to participate
DigiMeet is a public networking event. It is primarily aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers but is open to everyone.
If you would like to participate, register by 31 October at the following link: https://eveeno.com/119486743
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the organiser from your institute as indicated below or have a look at the respective websites.
Kind regards, the Organising Team
Maria Staudte, bidt
Nina Hahne, CAIS
Stephanie Bouré, WI
In cooperation with:
About the participating institutions:
bidt: The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), an Institute within the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, contributes to a better understanding of digital transformation’s developments and challenges. Thereby, we provide the foundations which will shape society’s digital future responsibly, for the common good.
CAIS: The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in North Rhine-Westphalia promotes the active shaping of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes that digitalization brings about. The Center sees itself as a place for innovative interdisciplinary research and as a source of inspiration for a critical public that wants to find agreement on models for a self-determined life in the digital society.
HBI: The Leibniz Institute for Media Research – Hans Bredow Institute (HBI) examines media change and the related structural shifts in public communication. It combines basic research and research on knowledge transfer from cross-media, interdisciplinary and independent scholarly perspectives. Thus, the institute is a valued provider of problem-specific knowledge for politics, commerce and civil society.
WI: The Weizenbaum-Institute for Networked Society (WI) is the German Internet Institute, a place of excellent research on the transformation and design processes of digital change. In the spirit of Joseph Weizenbaum, we research the necessary framework conditions, means and processes for individual and social self-determination in a networked society. We understand self-determination as a design principle that is central to the preservation of human dignity and democracy.