The Academic Freedom Forum in Bochum, taking place from June 9 to 11, 2026, focuses on the challenges facing universities in times of global crises. Central themes include academic freedom, human rights, and democratic values. CAIS researchers Dr. Mitra Shamsi and Dr. Tetiana Gorokhova contribute to the program through workshops and panels.
Since December 2025, young people under the age of 16 in Australia have been prohibited from using platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat. Similar calls for restrictions are growing louder in Germany. However, researchers from the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), and the Weizenbaum Institute caution against hasty political measures without robust evidence.
An article by Tetiana Gorokhova was published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management.
Researchers from CAIS are represented at Europe’s leading conference on digital society, re:publica 2026 in Berlin. Their contributions focus on current debates around social media regulation for young people, vibe coding, deepfakes, and digital sovereignty through decentralized networks.
At the annual meeting of the Network of Institutes for Digitalization Research in Hamburg, current priorities such as open science, interdisciplinarity, futures research, and transdisciplinary approaches as well as issues of cooperation and institutional structure were discussed, and further collaboration among the participating German research institutes was coordinated.
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