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Evaluating the Impact of AI for Sustainability and Public Interest

We are looking for an postdoctoral researcher for the analysis of the social impact of AI systems.

Research magazine

encore 2024/2025

This issue explores the contradictions of the digital transformation of our society.

Interview

How powerful is Elon Musk?

Jeanette Hofmann talks about the tech billionaire and his influence on politics in ‘Das Politikteil’.

Digital Society Blog

Modern subway station escalators leading to platforms, symbolizing the structured pathways of access rights. In the context of online platforms, such rights enable research but impose narrow constraints, raising questions about academic freedom.

Why access rights to platform data for researchers restrict, not promote, academic freedom

Tobias Mast, Martin Fertmann on 27 November 2024
Three groups of icons representing people have shapes travelling between them and a page in the middle of the image. The page is a simple rectangle with straight lines representing data used for people analytics. The shapes traveling towards the page are irregular and in squiggly bands.

Empowering workers with data

Sonja Köhne, Nele Buß, Georg von Richthofen, Hendrik Send on 4 November 2024
A stylised illustration featuring a large "X" in a minimalist font, with a dry branch and faded leaves on one side, and a vibrant blue bird in flight on the other. The image symbolises transition, with the bird representing the former Twitter logo and the "X" symbolising the platform's rebranding and policy changes under Elon Musk.

Two years after the takeover: Four key policy changes of X under Musk

Adrian Kopps on 28 October 2024
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