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SUMMARY:EDMO BELUX 2.0 | Countering disinformation\, raising democratic resilience
DESCRIPTION:The final conference for EDMO BELUX 2.0: \nBased in Belgium and Luxembourg\, we take the opportunity to reflect how our efforts across fact-checking\, media literacy\, research investigations to monitor and respond to disinformation raise resilience in democratic societies. In particular we seek to contribute policy evidence of societal threats and responses to disinformation. […] \nThis conference welcomes fact-checkers\, media professionals\, media literacy practitioners\, educators\, disinformation analysts and researchers\, policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the mitigation of disinformation\, especially in Luxembourg and Belgium. The main sessions of the conference will take place in English\, while parallel sessions can be organised in French or English.  \nEDMO BELUX 2.0 is a multidisciplinary hub that unites fact-checkers\, disinformation analysts\, media literacy organizations\, and academics. Together\, we strive to counteract the spread of disinformation\, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of information in our communities. We support a wide and diverse community dedicated to safeguarding democratic processes in Belgium and Luxembourg.  \nEDMO BELUX 2.0 is a co-financed Digital Europe project\, under Grant Agreement number 101158785. This EDMO BELUX 2.0 final conference is organized jointly with the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies and is part of BrIAS 2025-2026 programming on Democratic Governance: Challenges and Innovations.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/edmo-belux-2-0-countering-disinformation-raising-democratic-resilience/
LOCATION:Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS)\, Blvd Général Jacques 210\, Ixelles\, 1050\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:SEASON 2026 Conference | Search Engines and Society Network
DESCRIPTION:Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026) brings together researchers\, practitioners\, and policymakers to discuss the societal impact of search technologies. The conference offers keynotes\, panels\, workshops\, and networking opportunities. \nSome of the themes for this year’s conference include: \n\nPolitical bias and elections\nLiteracy and education\nAI overviews and trust\nHealth and high-stakes information\nAI answers\, podcasts\, and behavior\nMethods and infrastructure\n\nExplore the full conference program here.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/season-2026-conference-search-engines-and-society-network/
LOCATION:HAW Hamburg – Finkenau Campus\, Finkenau 35\, Hamburg\, 22081\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T090000
DTSTAMP:20261012T224455
CREATED:20260803T162319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T162530Z
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SUMMARY:POLITICO Decoded Summit: AI & Tech Policy
DESCRIPTION:Join POLITICO in Washington\, D.C. for special conversations with policymakers\, regulators\, industry leaders\, investors and innovators crafting the rules of the road for AI and the decisions shaping its future. \n_____ \nAs the development and deployment of artificial intelligence transforms the economy and society\, decisions being made today by policymakers and executives will determine who leads and who is left behind. \nThis fall\, POLITICO will host two complementary events convening the leaders shaping the future of AI: one in Washington\, D.C. where policymakers are crafting the rules of the road for AI\, and one in San Francisco where the technologies driving the next wave of innovation are being built. \nEach event will bring together a global mix of policymakers\, regulators\, industry leaders\, investors and innovators for high-level conversations defining the AI era — from regulation and national security to infrastructure\, energy\, global competition and enterprise adoption. \nWith POLITICO’s unmatched authority at the intersection of power and policy\, each Decoded Summit will provide audience members the opportunity to connect directly with the leaders\, ideas and decisions shaping technology on a global scale. \nRead more and register to attend here.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/politico-decoded-summit-ai-tech-policy/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260921T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260925T235959
DTSTAMP:20261012T224455
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SUMMARY:INMA Media Innovation Week
DESCRIPTION:INMA’s Media Innovation Week returns to Madrid in September 2026 — uniting Europe’s most ambitious media leaders at the intersection of data\, product\, audience\, and revenue. \nMadrid will convene the people setting the pace for Europe’s news industry. Alongside established voices\, you’ll hear from the innovators building what comes next — the creators rewriting engagement\, the product minds driving habit\, and the commercial architects opening new revenue pathways. It’s a programme infused with fresh thinking and next-generation leadership\, designed to surface the ideas that will shape European media for years to come. \nExperience the strategies powering Spain’s top newsrooms\, explore breakthrough audience growth playbooks\, and connect with the people transforming European media: \nEuropean news media conference: INMA’s signature European conference is the broadest\, fastest\, and most practical look at how to grow and transform at the intersection of media and tech. \nTwo-day Madrid study tour: Visit the newsrooms and innovation labs of Spain’s leading media companies\, gaining first-hand insights into their strategies for audience growth and revenue diversification. What they are doing to grow audience\, brand\, reader and advertising revenue. We’ll visit Prisa Media (El Pais)\, Unidad Editorial (el Mundo)\, Vocento\, ElDiario\, Mediaset\, and RTVE. \nThe very best of Madrid: Beyond the conference\, immerse yourself in Madrid’s legendary hospitality. From tapas tours in historic neighbourhoods to exclusive evenings at iconic venues\, INMA will open doors to the best of Spanish culture and networking opportunities. \nClick here to learn more and register to attend.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/inma-media-innovation-week/
LOCATION:Hotel Riu Plaza España\, Gran Vía\, 84\, Centro\, Madrid\, 28013\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:CRC Critical Data Autumn School 2026 | Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI
DESCRIPTION:Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today’s algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront of digital social life – intervening in the content feeds as conversational agents like xAI’s Grok\, reshaping identity through synthetic likenesses of OpenAI’s Sora-2\, and expanding the social ecosystem itself through projects like Butterflies AI and Moltbook\, where autonomous AI agents operate in coexistence with (or independently of) human users. As these developments rapidly outpace existing research frameworks\, the need for mixed critical methodologies grows more urgent. \nSynthetic social media research takes as its starting point the recognition that platforms shaped by generative AI are not simply data-processing systems but cultural environments organized through algorithms\, interfaces\, and shared ways of feeling and knowing. Analytically\, the attribute “synthetic” implies more than artificial arrangements of collective agency. Rather than treating AI as a radical rupture\, it situates generative systems within broader arrangements of human-machine co-creation that amplify specific imaginaries\, values\, and concerns. Methodologically\, it foregrounds ambiguities in how AI platforms recalibrate meaning and how users develop a practical “feel” for algorithmic systems while negotiating their constraints. \nCritical digital methods have responded to these developments by treating chatbots and generative systems as part of the research design as well as objects of inquiry in their own right. Synthetic text\, images\, and sounds are no longer exceptional artifacts but common platform vernaculars\, sustained by entangled practices of prompting\, remixing\, and circulation. Within platform studies\, interface methods\, visual digital methods\, and emerging forms of synthetic ethnography\, AI systems have been repurposed for formatting\, summarization\, annotation\, labeling\, and the generation of synthetic data\, while being interrogated for how they shape knowledge production. This work has foregrounded questions of method: Are we merely studying AI slop\, distracted by the automated excess of content stripped of context and meaning\, or are we witnessing the redefinition of social media itself along with its affordances and cultures of use? \nThe 2026 Autumn School edition of the CRC “Media of Cooperation” tackles this question by focusing on generative AI as an infrastructural\, cultural\, and regulated component of social media platforms across three intersecting dimensions: At the cultural level of everyday use\, it refers to the routinized practices of prompting or interacting with platform-embedded generative systems through multimodal inputs. Infrastructurally\, it signals a shift in agency\, as platforms keep multiplying affordances that nudge us into co-producing synthetic outputs. Finally\, it foregrounds research techniques for probing AI models in their entanglements with the platform governance and moderation regimes. \nAgainst this background\, we invite participants to submit short contributions inspired by\, though not limited to\, one of the following “how to” prompts: \n\nHow to repurpose AI personas as research personas\nHow to rethink walkthrough methods in light of platforms’ generative affordances\nHow to approach cultural biases conditioned by AI systems and prompt cultures\nHow to study AI moderation as platform policy in action\nHow to explore platform agency and its steering ideologies\nHow to integrate screenshots as a method for capturing synthetic situations\nHow to account for the ambiguities emerging from human-machine co-creation\nHow to develop non-extractive approaches to researching AI platforms\n\nParticipants are invited to submit a short abstract (maximum 500 words excluding references) outlining how their work relates to the event’s theme. Presentations should raise questions or provocations rather than present finished research. Accepted abstracts will be grouped into thematic sessions and discussed in a collaborative\, dialogue-focused format. \nSubmit your proposal by 30. April 2026 \nNotification of acceptance by 15 May 2026 \nRegistration by 15 June 2026 \nThe event opens with a one-day conference and moves into hands-on workshops and project work. Accepted abstracts will be grouped into thematic sessions curated by the organising team. Presenters will be connected via email ahead of time to coordinate their contributions. The first day is about presentations and discussions. The next three days are dedicated to exploring and developing methods – hands-on! We invite you to join a team of interdisciplinary scholars and data designers in probing new methodological combinations. Each of our project teams will present a research question alongside a specific method to be collaboratively explored. Please bring your laptops. The project titles will be announced soon. The event is free of charge\, though attendees are responsible for arranging and covering their travel and accommodation in Siegen.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/crc-critical-data-autumn-school-synthetic-social-media-studying-platform-embedded-ai-2026/
LOCATION:University Siegen\, Herrengarten 3\, Siegen\, 57072\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260923T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T235959
DTSTAMP:20261012T224455
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SUMMARY:The Future of Speech Online 2026: The Death of Online Anonymity?
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Future of Speech Online will examine the need for online anonymity\, where it should or shouldn’t be compromised\, the emerging and growing threats to anonymity online\, and how to mitigate them. We will bring together civil society\, academics\, companies\, practitioners and others to demonstrate how anonymity is used\, how it is achieved technically\, and what it takes to support anonymous speech into the future. \nClick here to learn more and register to attend.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-future-of-speech-online-2026-conference-the-death-of-online-anonymity/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Democracy & Technology":MAILTO:civictech@cdt.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T235959
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SUMMARY:AI x Investigative Journalism Forum at The New York Times | Hacks/Hackers
DESCRIPTION:​From document analysis to pattern detection to verification\, AI is changing how investigative journalists dive into research and how fast they can move. The question now is how to scale those skills and put them in the hands of reporters to do more accountability journalism under deadline. \n​Join Hacks/Hackers at The New York Times for a full day of case studies and hands-on skill-building with investigative reporters\, data journalists\, editors and engineers. You will leave with real techniques ready to use in your newsroom. \n\nClick here to learn more and register to attend.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-x-investigative-journalism-forum-at-the-new-york-times-hacks-hackers/
LOCATION:The New York Times\, 242 W 41st St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T000000
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: Digital Competition Conference 2027
DESCRIPTION:The rapid diffusion of AI and the emergence of AI agents capable of independently accessing tools\, initiating processes\, and acting on users’ behalf may fundamentally reshape how information and economic activity are organized online. These developments are raising new questions about market power\, entry\, innovation\, and control across the technology stack. At the same time\, the regulatory and enforcement disputes that have defined competition policy in tech in recent years continue to evolve\, as the implications of incumbent platform power become increasingly consequential. \nThe Digital Competition Conference 2027 (DCC ‘27)\, taking place February 9-10\, 2027 in Washington\, DC\, will examine all of these developments through a broad inquiry into competition in digital markets. Building on the success of DCC ‘26 – which brought together participants from 37 countries – the conference will continue to serve as a forum for rigorous\, interdisciplinary discussion on the future of competition in the digital economy across key sectors and jurisdictions. The conference aims to advance a shared understanding of competition in AI and digital markets among researchers\, policymakers\, regulators\, business\, litigators\, technologists\, and civil society experts. \nDiscussion will center on research results and methods\, what stakeholders know and still need to learn about competition challenges and remedies\, and how to create a virtuous cycle where research more effectively informs policymaking and enforcement while regulation enables more effective research. The conference will feature research talks and policy discussions focused on a range of technology markets – as they have been traditionally offered\, and as they are being reshaped by AI – including markets for search\, chatbots\, and AI assistants; consumer and enterprise software\, including browsers\, apps\, harnesses\, and cloud services; advertising; social media; messaging; and connected devices. \nCall for Submissions \nWe are soliciting expressions of interest in researcher participation\, including early-stage or draft research papers\, prepublication papers\, and recent or accepted publications. The program committee will select and curate research talks and poster presentations from the submissions received. With the authors’ consent\, we expect to post accepted submissions on our website prior to the conference. \nResearch talks at the conference will be short and should illuminate competition issues\, remedies\, or research methods. Selected speakers will be asked to stimulate dialogue about the practical application of research findings to policymaking and enforcement. The conference is open to all disciplines\, including economics\, computer science\, law\, public policy\, business\, and behavioral sciences. \nPlease submit your paper through the submission link by September 25\, 2026.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/call-for-submissions-digital-competition-conference-2027/
LOCATION:Knight-Georgetown Institute
CATEGORIES:Call for Paper or Proposal,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260930T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20261002T235959
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SUMMARY:AI Hype\, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival
DESCRIPTION:The AI Hype\, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival is a space for genuine exchange\, where knowledge flows in every direction\, and where responsibility is treated not as an abstract principle\, but as something negotiated in practice. \nOver three days\, the festival moves through a deliberate arc: \n\nSocietal challenges and current uses of AI across domains including work\, health\, education\, media\, food\, safety\, and defence.\nTransitions and concrete ways forward\, including experimentation\, implementation\, and innovation.\nSkills\, education\, and long-term change asking what capacities are needed to shape responsible AI futures.\n\nWho is this event for?\nThis event is designed as a festival\, not a traditional academic conference. It brings together academics\, practitioners\, and policymakers working on AI\, while opening up the conversation to students\, creatives\, families\, and anyone curious about how AI is shaping society. \nResearchers remain at the heart of the programme\, but in a format that goes beyond presentations and papers\, creating space for dialogue\, interaction\, and exchange with a wider audience. \nVisitors can explore the programme in their own way\, whether that’s through hands-on experiences\, creative work\, discussions\, or more in-depth academic sessions. Alongside plenary sessions\, paper presentations\, workshops\, and debates\, the festival will feature demos\, expo-style showcases\, and a startup competition focused on responsible AI solutions\, where finalists will pitch live. \nEveryone is welcome\, whether you engage with AI in your work or are simply interested in how it affects everyday life. You don’t need a technical background or a specific reason to attend\, if you’re interested\, you’re invited.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/ai-hype-hope-and-humanity-ai-hhh-festival/
LOCATION:De Doelen\, Kruisplein 40\, Rotterdam\, 3012 CC\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260930T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261002T235959
DTSTAMP:20261012T224455
CREATED:20260413T195124Z
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SUMMARY:Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
DESCRIPTION:The increasing availability of digital behavioral data and computational tools has transformed how communication researchers study media use\, exposure\, and effects. These developments offer unprecedented analytical depth – but also introduce new complexities in measurement\, theory-building\, and ethical practice. This year’s conference of the Methods Division invites contributions that advance and critically engage with computational approaches to the measurement of media use and effects – through methodological innovation\, conceptual refinement\, or empirical application. \nWe seek submissions that explore how computational methods can not only extend but also rethink established approaches to studying media exposure\, its drivers\, and its consequences.
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/measuring-media-use-and-effects-computational-opportunities-and-challenges-annual-conference-of-the-methods-division-of-the-german-communication-association-dgpuk/
LOCATION:GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences\, Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8\, Köln\, 50667\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference
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