News
Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak becomes the new Scientific Director of the Center for Advanced Internet Studies
Open Science for Digital Transformation: CAIS becomes Co-editor of Internet Policy Review Journal
News from the Institute
CAIS Researcher at CHI 2025 in Japan
Prof. Dr. Hendrik Heuer and his team from the CAIS research program “Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” will be represented at the ACM CHI Conference...
Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting (DigiMeet 2025)
The Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting – DigiMeet 2025 will take place virtually on November 6, 2025, focusing on the theme “Platform Governance & Power”...
Insights on AI-support for transitions between individual and collaborative learning
Prof. Nikol Rummel speaks at the University of Oslo about the interplay between AI and teachers in the learning process.
Scaling Research Communication Beyond Research
On April 7, Paula Weitz is invited to a panel discussion as part of the Research Communication Day at Ruhr University Bochum.
Talk on the Educational Benefits of AI in the Learning Process
Astrid Wichmann highlights the effective use of AI in educational promotion in a keynote lecture at the DEI.
Is this part of the process or is it just me?
Samuel T. Simon will present the final paper of his dissertation project at the IRSPM conference, which will take place from April 7–9 in Bologna.
Pre-CHI 2025 in Siegen
Researchers from the CAIS research program “Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence” participate in Pre-CHI 2025 in Siegen from April 2 to 4, 2025.
Audible Impact? How Podcasts Bring Research to the World. Guests – Dr. Charmaine Voigt and Birte Kuhle
Podcasts have long been an essential part of science communication. But what makes a science podcast successful? How can content be effectively and sustainably shared...
Latest Publications
The “good reasons” for political participation on the internet
The dissertation explores the interplay between democracy, digitalization, and participation, and sheds light on how the internet can serve as a platform for political mobilization.
Sustainability & Digitalization – What does our future look like?
Based on 100+ future visions, the article by Josephine B. Schmitt and Samuel T. Simon explores sustainability, digitalization, and collective future visions.
Society as an “Algorithmic Social Machine”?
A chapter by former CAIS Fellow Harald Gapski has been published in an edited volume on Visual Literacy.
The pragmatic role of praise in African gender movements in celebrating women’s achievements in politics and society
Innocent Chiluwa researches how and why gender movements in Africa celebrate women and their achievements.
“War took my home, but not my future”: adaptation of war-affected Ukrainian students in Australia and Germany
As a result of her two-month fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney, Tetiana Gorokhova published an article in Innovation: The European Journal of Social...
The Role of the Circular Economy in Advancing Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Production
In the fall of 2024, Tetiana Gorokhova and other researchers published an article in the Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources on the circular economy as...
The violence of the majority: Rethinking AI positionality in decision-making
Mennatullah Hendawy’s article, published in the Internet Policy Review, criticizes how AI systems amplify societal biases through majority-centered data and utilitarian design principles.
AI Ethics Unwrapped: The role of ethical principles in AI development
In 2024, the article “AI Ethics Unwrapped: An Empirical Investigation of Ethical Principles in Collaborative Ideation Processes” was published, examining ethical principles in the AI...