AI and the Concentration of Power
HybridZoë Hitzig, known for her research and writing on the political economy of AI, including a widely discussed op-ed reflecting on her decision to leave OpenAI, will examine how AI […]
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Digital Identity Symposium: Towards User-Owned Identity
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University 1557 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLogging into social media platforms and other apps increasingly requires revealing sensitive information, like your birthday and full legal name. That data is collected, processed and shared in ways that […]
Global Forum: FIMI & Hybrid Threats
HybridAbout the Forum Over the past two years, FIMI has shifted from isolated disinformation campaigns to coordinated, AI-enabled operations that combine narrative manipulation, cyber disruption, economic pressure, and reputational attacks […]
The Civic Toolkit: Digital Literacy in the Age of AI
The Civic Toolkit 2026 Wasserturm, EUREF-Campus 18, Berlin, GermanyDemocracies around the world are grappling with declining trust in public institutions, increasing polarisation and the rapid spread of disinformation, often amplified by AI. How can we best build digital literacy […]
AI Can Make Conflict Worse or Better
HybridJoin the Tech Impact and Policy Center on April 21st from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminarwith Jonathan Stray. About the Seminar: There has been much discussion of how AI can help […]
Doing Digital Platform Research with Australian Internet Observatory
VirtualA free Australian Internet Observatory Webinar exploring the tool and process for using data donations as a method for collecting digital platform data. Presented by Prof Dan Angus (QUT), Prof […]
Influencer Diplomacy Symposium
VirtualThe Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (IERLab) is hosting our next symposium on Influencer Diplomacy, to be held via Zoom on 24 April 2026, 10:00 – 16:00 (AWST). This one-day online event focuses […]
Call for Contributions: Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026)
On behalf of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON), we invite submissions for the 2026 edition of the Search Engines and Society Annual Conference (SEASON 2026), to be held […]
“AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance: Power, Control, and Technological Transformation” | Call for Papers for Special Issue
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue titled “AI, Algorithmic Media, and Digital Governance: Power, Control, and Technological Transformation,” to be published in the […]
Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI | Call for Proposals
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 […]
Look What You Made Me Do: How FIMI Actors Weaponize Pop Culture
VirtualWhat if viral cultural moments were not just entertainment, but strategic entry points for influence? High-visibility events, from major entertainment events to viral online controversies, are increasingly used within the […]
PAIRSx Africa 2026: Shaping African AI Through Participatory Governance and Design
Raddison Blu Hotel, Lusaka 19029 Great East Rd, Lusaka, ZambiaIn 2025, the first PAIRSx Africa webinar was held alongside the Global AI Summit on Africa in Rwanda. The session brought together policy experts, practitioners, developers, and academics to advance […]
Rebuilding Belonging in a Digital Age: Teens, Tech, & Third Places
HybridJoin the Tech Impact and Policy Center on May 12th from 12PM–1PM Pacific for a seminarwith Jennifer Heifferon & Alanna Powers-O’Brien. About the Seminar: As adolescence becomes increasingly digital, public discourse tends to […]
Call for Papers: Measuring Media Use and Effects | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
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 […]
Conspiracy Theories in the Wake of Disaster | Call for Papers for Edited Volume
In late September, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the continental United States, churning its way up the Atlantic seaboard. The storm devastated North Carolina with massive rainfall and flooding […]
Inside the 2026 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI
HybridThe AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence. What is changing in the field of AI? Join Stanford HAI’s AI […]
Call for Abstracts: The Politics of GenAI Governance
João C. Magalhães (University of Manchester, UK), Klara Matusewicz (University of Manchester, UK), and Robert Gorwa (WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) are organising a two-day workshop, The Politics of […]
What Digital Futures Do We (Not) Want?
VirtualDemocracies today face profound challenges, including the proliferation of fake news and online disinformation, the rise of digital authoritarianism and digital fascism, the big tech monopolies of online platforms […]
AI companion bots as a public health issue: A new framework for regulation
VirtualAI companion bots are reshaping how people connect, confide, and cope, with children and adolescents among their most active users. Even as evidence of their potential social and developmental harms […]
IPIE | Confronting AI-Generated Misinformation – What the Science Says
VirtualGenerative AI is changing how misinformation is produced, circulated, and perceived. What does the evidence tell us specifically about this cycle, opportunities to mitigate it, and what we don’t know yet? […]
Global Disinformation Summit 2026
VirtualThe GLOBAL SUMMIT ON DISINFORMATION is a space for global interaction where journalists, researchers, academics, fact-checkers, media and government representatives, civil society organizations, professors, and students meet annually to discuss, […]
David vs Goliath in the DSA era: Lessons from Bits of Freedom’s victory
VirtualArticle 38 of the EU Digital Services Act could be described as a masterpiece of legal drafting – 57 words to say very large online platforms must provide a version […]
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
VirtualIn the late nineteenth century, the U.S. government and American corporations generated an unprecedented amount of paper records. The data complex emerged as a national network of repositories built to […]