The 50th Anniversary for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): calls for presentations, panels, and adjacent gatherings that engage our theme of TechnoPower. Science, technology, and innovation are not neutral; as STS scholars, we understand them as socially, culturally, and economically constructed and deeply entangled with a specific form of technoscientific power. […]
A.I. is inevitable — at least, that is what we would be led to believe from the nonstop media coverage, podcast interviews with tech billionaires, and the advertisements interspersed in our TikTok and Reels doomscrolling sessions. But what does it mean to bring a critical eye to Generative A.I.? Why should the average person care […]
Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Information Democracy & Social–cybersecurity (IDeaS) is hosting a conference focused on policy challenges emerging from the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and digital platforms. Advances in AI systems, shifts in platform governance, and the scale and speed of online communication are transforming how information is produced, distributed, and consumed. At […]
AoIR 2026 — Mexico City We are thrilled to be in Mexico City, Mexico for AoIR2026! #AoIR2026 will be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Mexico City, from October 14th to 17th, 2026. It will also be AoIR’s second bilingual conference, after last year’s successful piloting in Niteroí, Brazil. This Year’s Theme: Regenerations Regeneration(s) […]
In 2025, Oxford University Press launched a new type of resource: Oxford Intersections. Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world’s most complex and urgent environmental, cultural, political, and social challenges. Topics of Interest: We invite abstracts (by Oct. 20) for the Social Media […]
The fifth edition of the Africa Facts Summit will take place on 21 – 22 October 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa – bringing together fact-checkers, journalists, researchers, technologists, policymakers, and civil society actors at a critical moment for information integrity on the continent. A critical moment for information integrity The 2026 summit comes at a […]
The Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium, themed “Shaping the Open Transition”, moves from diagnosis to action: from mapping the landscape to charting the path forward. With keynotes anchored in what is already working, and sessions designed to translate research directly into policy recommendations and practice, the event is both a stocktaking exercise and a forward-looking […]
The Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) is pleased to announce the Investigative Journalism Week (IJ WEEK), a new, multi-day online gathering of journalists featuring more than 35 panels, workshops, and networking sessions with over 100 speakers. The sessions will be devoted to various themes, including tech, the environment, corruption, and money laundering, to name a […]
Barcelona shows that another technological model is possible. The second edition of Open Tech Week is back, the week that consolidates the city as a global benchmark in open technologies, digital rights and democratic innovation. This second edition brings together public institutions, digital communities, academia and civil society around a shared conviction: technology must serve […]
Mozilla Festival, aka MozFest, is three days of bold conversations, hands-on building, and ideas worth traveling for. This year, MozFest is taking over Barcelona’s Recinte Fabra i Coats—a former industrial complex turned cultural powerhouse—from Wednesday, October 28 through Friday, October 30, 2026. We are partnering with the City of Barcelona and taking part in Open […]