• The Digitalization of EU Air Border Controls and its Impacts on the Construction of Risk

    CAIS + virtuell Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a, Bochum

    Much literature on EU border control focuses on irregularized migration at the sea and land borders, despite this only accounting for a fraction of the annual number of border crossings, most of which are categorized as ‘regular’ and take place at the air borders. Focusing on two of Europe’s busiest airports for extra-EU arrivals, Schiphol […]

  • Matching the Ideology of Newspapers and Their Audiences

    CAIS + virtuell Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a, Bochum

    This presentation introduces a novel approach to estimating the ideological positions expressed in newspapers by combining automated topic modeling with LLM-enabled stance classification. Applying this approach to German newspapers, we identify the positions taken in news coverage across political issues and link these patterns to survey data on individuals’ political preferences and media use. This […]

  • We The Social Media – Social Media For and From Social Movements

    CAIS + virtuell Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2a, Bochum

    Social media has become a central infrastructure for contemporary activism, enabling rapid information diffusion, mobilization, and the amplification of marginalized voices. At the same time, activists face substantial challenges when engaging with these platforms, including exposure to hate speech, uneven algorithmic visibility, and platform governance structures that may undermine activist communication. This talk presents research […]

  • Module 1: Reading Seminar: “Challenges of AI Governance: Key Elements of the EU AI Act”

    Virtuell

    The reading seminar examines the EU AI Act as the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for regulating artificial intelligence. It introduces the AI Act’s risk-based regulatory model and explores key governance tools such as transparency obligations for AI systems and transparency obligations for AI-generated content. Particular attention is given to the new regulatory regime for general-purpose and generative AI.

  • Digitalisation Research Seminar -DigiSem 2026

    Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin

    The WI, bidt, CAIS and HBI invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to present their work at the joint Digitalisation Research Seminar – DigiSem 2026 on: 21-22 September 2026 in Berlin.