JournalismAI Strategy Lab LATAM | Call for Applications
VirtualThe JournalismAI Strategy Lab is expanding, and this time we’re heading to Latin America. We’ve had a great response from the LATAM community over the years, and we’re excited to […]
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5th Annual Civics of Technology Online Conference: Against Tech Hype
VirtualHype, hope, disappointment. Hype is the rhetoric of tech billionaires, of VCs, of tech-pushers, of AI boosters and AI doomers. Hype is about attention, grabbing it, holding it. Hype is […]
The Limits of Human Oversight in the Age of AI Agents | Data & Society
VirtualAI agents have begun to move from speculative promise into everyday deployment. They translate high-level goals into plans and carry them out across connected digital environments. Agent builders often promise […]
2026 IDeaS Conference | Call for Submissions
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 […]
Hacks/Hackers AI x Visual Journalism Forum
AI is reshaping visual storytelling. Tools that generate, edit and synthesize images, video and data visualizations are moving faster than the field can track. There are no industry standards, few […]
Job Call: Assistant Professor Position in Media Industry Studies
University of Pennsylvania: Annenberg School for Communication“The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication is seeking to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position in Media Industry Studies to begin the fall semester of 2027. We are […]
Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) | Funded Research Sabbatical
Time, focus and community for your research on the societal impact of digital transformation A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) provides the freedom to dedicate yourself […]
Job Call: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
“Data & Society seeks a post-doctoral research fellow for AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge, a two-year project housed under our AI & Democracy initiative and led by Director […]
Call for Papers – Creator and Influencer Studies
Since 2020, health professionals as creators and influencers has exploded. While they existed long before this date, the advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic accelerated the growth and importance of health […]
AI Civic Action Accelerator | Call for Applications
VirtualThe AI Civic Action Accelerator is a free, 6-session, part-time program that helps individuals and teams refine and advance promising policy solutions to civic artificial intelligence (AI) challenges. The accelerator […]
EDMO BELUX 2.0 | Countering disinformation, raising democratic resilience
Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS) Blvd Général Jacques 210, Ixelles, BelgiumThe final conference for EDMO BELUX 2.0: Based in Belgium and Luxembourg, we take the opportunity to reflect how our efforts across fact-checking, media literacy, research investigations to monitor and […]
The Label Paradox: Can AI Transparency Create More Distrust? | AI, Media, and Democracy Lab
VirtualOur hopes are pinned on AI labels. AI labels are expected to help users navigate an increasingly synthetic information environment by distinguishing fact from fiction, human from machine. Beginning in […]
LLMs are the Third Wave of Automated Content Moderation | Penn MEDIATED
VirtualContent moderation is critical to protecting users against harmful and illegal online content, although it may also restrict free expression. Over the past two decades, platforms have increasingly turned to automation […]
SEASON 2026 Conference | Search Engines and Society Network
HAW Hamburg – Finkenau Campus Finkenau 35, Hamburg, GermanySearch 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. […]
Global Guardrails for Agentic AI: Can the UN, or Anybody Else, Provide Them? | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
VirtualDramatic advances in agentic AI models are rapidly outpacing governance responses, raising profound safety concerns and even questions about the future of civilization. As these capabilities explode, the world needs […]
PAIRSx Public Sector 2026 | Call for Extended Abstracts
PAIRSPAIRSx Public Sector is an open one-day symposium that will be hosted at the Ada Lovelace Institute on 5th November 2026 to explore how public bodies are engaging and involving […]
POLITICO Decoded Summit: AI & Tech Policy
HybridJoin 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. […]
Governing AI: Policy, Power, and Accountability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Center for Transformative Media
VirtualArtificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology — it is already embedded in hiring, healthcare, public infrastructure, and democratic processes, yet the institutions meant to govern it remain incomplete […]
IPIE Global Expert Survey 2026 – Launch Webinar
Virtual“For the fourth year running, we asked experts who study the information environment what they’re seeing in their respective countries. The answer is sobering: three in four experts now expect it to […]
27th International Symposium on Journalism (ISOJ)
University of Texas at Austin , United StatesThe 27th International Symposium on Journalism (ISOJ) will take place Sept. 17-18, 2026, online and in person at the University of Texas at Austin. Stay up to date with important […]
Reject then launder: Catching AI Models validating extremist narratives in crisis | EU Disinfo Lab
VirtualWhat happens when you ask AI chatbots about a crisis or terror attack? While models are programmed to block violent content, real-world audits reveal a concerning phenomenon: “Reject then launder.” […]
INMA Media Innovation Week
Hotel Riu Plaza España Gran Vía, 84, Centro, Madrid, SpainINMA’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. Madrid will convene the […]
CRC Critical Data Autumn School 2026 | Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI
University Siegen Herrengarten 3, Siegen, GermanySocial 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 […]
The Future of Speech Online 2026: The Death of Online Anonymity?
VirtualThis 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 […]
Protecting Democracy’s Data | Book Talk
VirtualThe United States census, conducted every ten years, is one of the world’s oldest and biggest data-making endeavors, and one of the country’s most consequential. In her urgent new book Data […]
Co-Opting AI: Archives
VirtualCo-Opting AI: Archives will examine how archives and archiving—as infrastructure, epistemology, and social practice—relate to contemporary AI systems. The session will be recorded for those who cannot attend live – […]
AI x Investigative Journalism Forum at The New York Times | Hacks/Hackers
The New York Times 242 W 41st St, New York, NY, United StatesFrom 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 […]
Call for Submissions: Digital Competition Conference 2027
Knight-Georgetown InstituteThe 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 […]
Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools? With Data & Society
HybridExplore how AI’s role in classrooms is being shaped in New York City and beyond with Coding Kids author Natasha Singer and other panelists at this discussion presented by the research and […]
AI Hype, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival
De Doelen Kruisplein 40, Rotterdam, NetherlandsThe 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 […]
Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, Köln, GermanyThe 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 […]
The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language | Stanford HAI
HybridAs AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working […]
2026 Trust & Safety Research Conference
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center will host the fifth annual Trust and Safety Research Conference on October 1-2, 2026 at Stanford University. The conference brings together trust and […]
b° future festival for journalism and constructive dialogue
The next edition of the b° future festival will take place from October 1-3, 2026. The b° future festival creates time and space for anyone and everyone who wants to rethink […]
Empirical Methods in the Age of AI | Stanford Data Science
Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa 389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesArtificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both […]
4S 2026 Toronto: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures
HybridThe 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 […]
Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI | DISCO Network
VirtualA.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 […]
2026 IDeaS Conference | Governing the Digital Age: AI, Platforms, and Online Harms Policy
HybridCarnegie 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 […]
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2026
Hyatt Regency Mexico City Campos Eliseos No. 204 Polanco Chapultepec, Mexico City, MexicoAoIR 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 […]