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Hidden Rules, Visible Consequences: Who Moderates Our Timeline?
Billions of pieces of content are published on social media every day – including hate speech, incitements to violence, and racist remarks. Dr. Matthias Begenat...
Shaping Digital Education Together – at Digitalwegweiser NRW 2025
Registration started: On Thursday, September 25, 2025, the Medienkompetenz_LAB invites you to the Barcamp “Digitalwegweiser NRW” at the Volkshochschule Dortmund. This full-day event brings together...
Student workshop on AI in the classroom
On 8 July 2025, Dr. Astrid Wichmann will be speaking about “AI in the Classroom: What’s Hype and What Does the Research Say?” as part...
How AI is Negotiated in the Bundestag – Political Narratives Between Aspiration and Reality
Anne Goldmann will present her research on the political discourse surrounding artificial intelligence in the German Bundestag from July 2 to 4, 2025, at this...
CAIS Fellow Sarah Ciston receives S+T+ARTS Prize 2025
Sarah Ciston, currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), is being awarded the S+T+ARTS Prize 2025. Their project AI War Cloud...
Dr. Martin Goch is the new Head of the CAIS Supervisory Board
Dr. Martin Goch (Chancellor of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) has been appointed as the new head of the Supervisory Board at CAIS. He succeeds Dr....
Workshop on fake news, deepfakes, and digital resilience
What truly helps in the fight against disinformation? How are deepfakes reshaping our understanding of truth online? And how can science journalism respond? Josephine B....
On the Tagesschau: “AI-generated images in war”
On June 21, 2025, Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak commented in the Tagesschau on the challenges involved in detecting AI-generated images and videos, which are...
Latest Publications
Digitalisation: Catalysing the Transition to a Circular Economy in Ukraine
Dr. Tetiana Gorokhova explores in her research the potential of digitalization for a shift towards a sustainable circular economy (CE) in Ukraine.
From Digital Self-Control Apps to iOS Shortcuts: Enabling Privacy-Centric Wellbeing Research Without Code
CAIS researcher Dr. Aditya Kumar Purohit presents the joint paper on digital wellbeing and end-user development with Alberto Monge Roffarello at IS-EUD 2025 in Munich...
The right to access official information as a resilience-improving tool: Ukrainian lessons during wartime
In her contribution, Tetiana Oleksiyuk analyzes the importance of access to official information during wartime, with a focus on Ukraine, and demonstrates how digital platforms...
The impact of digitalization on CSR in Ukraine’s industry
Tetiana Gorokhova presents her research results at the ΕΒΕΕC 2025 conference on May 16 in Tirana, Albania.
Strategies for implementing digital technologies in circular economy models: balancing economic security and sustainable industrial growth
In the edited volume “Transformations, Challenges and Security”, Tetiana Gorokhova analyzes the use of digital technologies to promote sustainable and resilient circular economy.
Opinion piece: GenAI in Science
The use of generative AI in academia is growing rapidly – but it is not only an opportunity, it is also a symptom of an...
Language Corpora in German Language Teaching
The working group “Language Corpora as Digital Educational Technologies,” funded by CAIS in 2022, has published Language Corpora in German Language Teaching as the result...
Knowledge versus conspiracy theories: How self-efficacy and education can strengthen democratic participation
During the pandemic, numerous conspiracy theories spread on social media, which can pose a threat to democratic processes. The study examines how political self-efficacy and...
Balancing Realism and Trust: AI Avatars in Science Communication
AI avatars are increasingly used in science communication — but what makes them trustworthy? A recent study by Jasmin Baake, Dr. Josephine B. Schmitt and...