von Annika Gödde | 10. März 2025
This project will research online gendered hate such as digital sexisms and gender-based online violence. They are particularly interested in visual misogynistic practices that “fly under the radar”. These include content moderation of visual gender violence; visual performance of gender identities, i.e. stereotyping, diminishing, branding, reinforcing imaginaries; and the role of aesthetics and design in (re)generating gender violence (Özkula et al., 2024).
The meeting at CAIS is intended to provide an opportunity to contrast and combine our collective methods and develop a methodology that better captures the complexity and diversity of cases of Platformed Visual Misogyny through comparative and multi-modal approaches (for which the groundwork has been laid in Özkula, Prieto-Blanco, Tan, & Mdege, 2024).
von Annika Gödde | 3. Februar 2025
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the way political parties operate, engage with citizens, and lead in democratic systems? Our working group, Rethinking Party Politics: The Impact of AI on Governance, Membership, and Leadership, tackles this critical question. We bring together leading scholars in party politics, AI ethics, and democracy studies to explore AI’s transformative influence on political strategy, grassroots mobilization, and decision-making processes. Through interdisciplinary dialogue, expert presentations, and hands-on scenario planning, we’ll investigate how AI impacts political parties using Katz and Mair’s (1993) three-level framework: the party in public office, the party on the ground, and the party central office. Despite the rapid growth of research on AI and democracy, few studies have focused on its impact on political parties key actors in representative systems. By addressing this gap, we aim to make a significant contribution to understanding the future of political organizations in the age of AI, inspiring further scholarship.
von Matthias Begenat | 17. September 2024
Our working group aims to bring together a variety of leading scholars from different disciplines and countries to study how industrial policy is actually done in Europe and beyond, and what the specific role of technology is therein. This promises not only to significantly advance the existing and rapidly growing literature on industrial policy and digital policy-making. It will also have practical relevance for the effectiveness and legitimacy of industrial and digital policy.
von Annika Gödde | 19. Juni 2024
Der Diskurs über künstliche Intelligenz (KI) fokussiert sich stark auf Text-zu-Text-Generatoren wie Chat-GPT. Weniger beachtet wird die aktuell an Popularität gewinnende generative visuelle Kommunikation: Mit Tools wie Stable Diffusion können KI-Bilder mühelos generiert werden und finden bereits in vielen Kontexten Anwendung, ohne dass ihre Herkunft den Betrachter*innen offensichtlich wird. Diese Bilder haben das Potenzial, Produktion, Verwendung und Rezeption von Bildern grundlegend zu verändern. Die geplante AG zielt darauf ab, diese Lücke zu schließen und das Thema KI-generierter Bilder multidisziplinär zu untersuchen. In fünf Workshops (drei in Präsenz, zwei virtuell) analysieren wir die Charakteristika und Herausforderungen generativer Bilder (objektzentrierte Perspektive), die Produktions- und Präsentationskontexte (kommunikatorzentrierte Perspektive) sowie die Rezeption und Medienkompetenz der Nutzer (Rezeptions- und Nutzungsorientierten Perspektive). Die Ergebnisse werden in wissenschaftlichen Publikationen und auf einer Fachtagung präsentiert. Zudem erstellen wir einen Leitfaden zur ethischen Nutzung generativer Bilder und streben die Verstetigung der Zusammenarbeit sowie weitere Fördermittel an.
von Annika Gödde | 8. März 2024
These three days (March 19-21) of collective work aim to bring together a diverse group of IBSA experts, ranging from representatives from civil society, academia, policymaking and survivors‘ experiences, to elaborate fresh definitions and data regarding online gender-based violence and envision more inclusive and gender-sensitive technological, political and educational solutions.
