This workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to open research, equipping participants with the skills to implement and advocate for open research practices.
Multi-sited mobile ethnography is an innovative methodology for studying complex and multilayered digital phenomena. This approach adapts ethnographic techniques to the fluid nature of digital spaces, allowing researchers to follow discussions and practices across multiple online platforms and offline contexts. Unlike conventional methods focusing on a single location, it constructs an ethnographic place through the […]
The past few years have witnessed significant leaps in capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs of today can perform a variety of tasks such as summarization, information retrieval and even mathematical reasoning with impressive accuracy. What is even more impressive is LLMs’ ability to follow natural language instructions without needing dedicated training datasets. However, […]
In this QPD Tutorial, we will discuss the essentials of analysing digital trace data using process mining.
US Presidential Election 2024: New Realities in a Polarized America Prof. Dr. Christoph Bieber, Prof. Dr. Klaus Kamps, Juliane Schäuble A TV debate gone wrong, an unexpected resignation, a failed assassination attempt, a new female candidate - it's hard to know where to look first when you want to find out about the US presidential election […]
This workshop empowers participants to navigate the evolving discourse surrounding AI with greater awareness and equips them with conceptual and methodological means to examine how AI is presented.
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The bidt, CAIS, HBI and Weizenbaum Institute invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to present their work at the joint Digitalisation Research Seminar – DigiSem.
In March 2024 we conducted an interdisciplinary workshop on policing, cities and digitalization with the support of CAIS. The aim of the workshop was to invite criminologists, sociologists and urban scholars to think broadly on the ways digitalization, big data and new technologies change and challenge policing cities. The departure point to the workshop was […]
My fellowship project is to complete a book entitled Understanding Modes: The Intensities of Media Affect. The proposal is currently under review with MIT Press. The book contends that “modes” play an essential role in human affective experience, especially with the ascendance of digital media, and develops the concept for scholars and thinkers of media […]
Within the context of the widespread use of digital and mobile technologies by adolescents, this project sets out to identify which ideas about sex and relationships young people are most likely to encounter when exposed to online pornography. Pornography is one of the greatest challenges posed by the “digital revolution”: many teenagers watch much more […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are now being used in more and more areas of society. This is a conceptual challenge for sociology because it is still unclear which concepts can be used to adequately grasp the relationship between the social and AI. The project aims to take the first steps towards a social theory of […]
