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Power and Politics of Digitalization @digipolicy.bsky.social · 17h

Keynote Invitation 💬💡

We are happy to be joined by @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social who will hold a public Keynote on "The Power of AI: From Tech Ideologies to New Authoritarianisms" as part of our workshop

📅 Nov. 20th, 18:30pm, Berlin

Please register here: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · 14d

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 16d

Out now: Our latest Policy Paper dives into the key provisions of the Digital Services Act #DSA on data access, highlighting its goals, procedures, limits, & external factors impacting implementation: 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/WI....

Cover: LK Seiling, Clara Iglesias Keller, Jakob Ohme, Ulrike Klinger, Claes de Vreese. Data Access for Researchers under the Digital Services Act: From Policy to Practice. Weizenbaum Policy Paper 15, September 2025.

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations, darling! 💛✨

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 28d

👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are very pleased that our young Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society has been included in #Scopus and will receive its first CiteScore next year: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society Accepted into Scopus

The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), launched in 2021, has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and will receive its first CiteScore in 2026. This marks an important step in the jour...

www.weizenbaum-institut.de

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Christian Strippel @strippel.bsky.social · Aug 27

The abstract submission for our special issue "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies" @cogitatiomac.bsky.social is now open! Submit your work on #data #archives and #tools! www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨Deadline approaching for this years' PlatGov: abstracts welcome till Sept 2nd!

Great chance to pitch your research and connect with wonderful people. @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @digipolicy.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social

rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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Power and Politics of Digitalization @digipolicy.bsky.social · Jul 14

Looking forward to your abstract submissions for our workshop "Generative AI & The Faces of Power" on 20-21 Novemeber!

Further details: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/events-1/...

Poster for the Call for Abstracts for the workshop "Generative AI & The Faces of Power".

The workshop aims to explore and critically reflect on the multifaceted power dynamics associated with generative AI across social, political, and cultural domains. We invite conceptual, theory-building, or comparative contributions that engage with power in the context of GenAI and related themes such as economic concentration, algorithmic governance, epistemic authority, and digital subjectivation.

Proposal length: approx. 500 words
Include: a brief biography (max. 150 words)
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Send to: workshop-generative-ai@wzb.eu
Languages: Abstracts and presentations in English or German, discussions in English

Organisers: Sebastian Berg, Jana Heim, Clara Iglesias Keller, Florian Irgmaier, Ann-Kathrin Koster

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · Jul 16

🌐 Zum heutigen #AIAppreciationDay rücken wir Datenarbeiter*innen ins Licht: Sie halten #KI am Laufen, oft unter prekären Bedingungen. Das Projekt @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social lässt sie selbst sprechen, zB in Videos & Comics. Ohne Ausbeutung & auf Augenhöhe.
Interview mit @milamiceli.bsky.social 👇

Ohne uns keine KI

In dem einzigartigen Projekt „Data Workers’ Inquiry“ erzählen Datenarbeiter*innen von ihrem Kampf um Würde und Rechte. Projektleiterin Dr. Milagros Miceli erklärt im Interview, warum ihre Arbeit syste...

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Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social · Jul 9

🎺🎺 New draft paper 🎺🎺

From Murdoch to Musk: Social media ownership and the political economy of platform content governance

The question is simple: who owns the major social media companies, and how do these owners influence content governance outcomes?

osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jun 23

Is China building a new kind of capitalism? Pun Ngai traces the rise of 'infrastructural capitalism' – a system blending state-led development, digital platforms, and labor exploitation. Not a break from neoliberalism, but its next phase.

Read the full paper: ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi....

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jul 1

The EU Digital Services Act asks large platforms to manage “systemic risks” to rights, discourse, & public health. @rachelgriffin.bsky.social shows how translating broad legal rules into action is a political process – raising the key question: who holds power here? ➡️ 🔗 doi.org/10.34669/wi....

Griffin, Rachel (2025). The Politics of Risk in the Digital Services Act: A Stakeholder Mapping and Research Agenda. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(2)

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Power and Politics of Digitalization @digipolicy.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thank you @robyncaplan.bsky.social for visiting us in Berlin and giving a wonderful presentation on your recent research!

Last week we hosted Duke University's Robyn Caplan for her talk on why big (social) media companies have changed their self-descriptive narrative, and why that matters.

Image of the screen during Robyn Caplan's talk at Weizenbaum Institute, reading the presentation's title "Why media companies now insist they are media companies, and why that matters"

Robyn Caplan, during her talk to an audience at Weizenbaum Institute

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Jeanette Hofmann @jeah.bsky.social · Jun 25

Im April diesen Jahres hat der deutsch-amerikanische Politikwissenschaftler Yascha Mounk einen Beitrag veröffentlicht, der die Zensur in Deutschland und Großbritannien anprangert: lnkd.in/eKYZibfS. Auf Einladung des @libmod.de‬ habe ich eine Replik darauf verfasst: lnkd.in/gPP49dXw

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Clara Iglesias Keller @claraigk.bsky.social · Jun 24

The PlatGov Conference is back! What a joy! I have learned so much from this research community. Join us this year 👇 @robyncaplan.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @ameliehldt.bsky.social @naomiappelman.bsky.social @deeliu97.bsky.social

rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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michael veale @michae.lv · Jun 18

3 year postdoc in Tübingen in Law and Tech with the excellent Michele Finck! www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu/vacancy-for-...

Vacancy for a Research Associate — Chair for Law and Artificial Intelligence

www.ailaw-tuebingen.eu

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jun 16

How can we ensure democratic oversight of intelligence agencies – especially when it comes to hacking operations?
Read the new #wjds paper by @andreramiro.bsky.social:

➡️ doi.org/10.34669/wi....

#CyberSecurity #Democracy #Surveillance #Hacking #Transparency #PublicPolicy #ComparativeLaw

Ramiro, André (2025). Democratic Oversight of Government Hacking by Intelligence Agencies: A Critical Analysis of Brazil and Germany . Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.2.3

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jun 13

"Die Pandemie war kein Neuanfang, sondern ein Ausnahmezustand, der bestehende Schwächen und Machtverhältnisse offenlegte."

@claraigk.bsky.social, Florian Butollo & @heimstaedt.bsky.social blicken zurück auf die #Corona #Pandemie, die vor fünf Jahren den Alltag bestimmte:

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Fünf Jahre nach Corona – Rückblick auf eine Krise, die vieles sichtbar machte

Im Frühjahr 2020 erfasste die Corona-Pandemie die Welt – mit massiven Auswirkungen auf Arbeit, Gesundheit, Öffentlichkeit und politische Entscheidungsprozesse. Die Krise warf drängende wissenschaftlic...

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Power and Politics of Digitalization @digipolicy.bsky.social · Jun 11

Why media companies now insist they are media companies, and why that matters 🌐🏢

Duke University assistant professor Robyn Caplan (@robyncaplan.bsky.social) will present her research on this exact topic 💬

24 June 2025, 11:00-12:30, WI

Please sign up here: survey.lamapoll.de/Why-media-co...

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib-berlin.bsky.social · Jun 6

🚨 New videos online: Rethinking Digital Public Spaces for #Democracy

🎥 Featuring Catalina Goanta (‪@cgoanta.bsky.social), Gérman Oscar Johannsen, Clara Iglesias Keller (@claraigk.bsky.social)

▶️ Watch now: tinyurl.com/5canhzsn
▶️ More: tinyurl.com/33p9nhr8

More episodes coming soon! #humanet3

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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · Jun 5

Insightful closing panel at #WIConf2025 with Maria Exner (Publix), @altreflexion.bsky.social‬ (@bnetza.bsky.social) and @beasaab.bsky.social @isdglobal.org ‬discussing perspectives from administration, activism and journalism about what we need for democratic resilience in a shrinking civic space.

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