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 […]
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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 […]
Enforce on the DSA enforcers: how can Member States legally push the Commission to act?
VirtualThe DSA establishes a hybrid enforcement framework. The European Commission holds exclusive competence to supervise and enforce DSA obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search […]
Fake News Festival 2026
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Große Scharrnstraße 59, Frankfurt, GermanyHow does our world change when artificial intelligence produces content faster than we can verify it? The Fake News Festival brings together science, practice, and the public to examine disinformation, artificial intelligence, and the future of our information society from diverse perspectives. In keynotes, lectures, and […]
AI and the future of teaching and learning | Brookings
VirtualAs generative AI rapidly reshapes classrooms around the globe, educators and decisionmakers are grappling with a major concern: How can generative AI be used to help, not harm, teaching and […]
The Luddite Conference on Participatory Futures | The New School
The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWith companies like OpenAI taking Pentagon contracts and Elon Musk using government resources to scrape Americans’ data, it’s hard to feel that there are any tangible ways to resist the […]
China’s AI strategy and its impact on the global information space | EU Disinfo Lab
VirtualCan European software built on cheap Chinese AI models be trusted? As open-source model families like Alibaba’s Qwen surge in global popularity, an increasing number of international developers are quietly […]
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2026
ITU Headquarters Pl. des Nations 1211, Geneva, SwitzerlandThe WSIS Forum serves as the central multistakeholder convening platform mandated to advance the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and support global digital cooperation. Anchored in the renewed UNGA […]
A Materialist Critique of Technofascism | ECPR
VirtualIn this talk, Dr. Möllers parses the current debate on technofascism(s) to develop a materialist understanding of technofascist formations from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and anti-colonial perspectives. She demonstrates […]
AI Real Talk: Spotting AI Slop with Pangram’s CEO | Hacks/Hackers
VirtualThe company Pangram has built the leading product for detecting if purportedly human-written words were actually generated by machines. Their work was among the first to publicly prove the novel […]
Behind the screen: AI slop, young children, and the profit problem | Brookings
VirtualAI slop—low-quality, mass-produced content created by generative AI—is increasingly permeating the digital environments that young children encounter during what is the most critical period for their development and lifelong well-being. […]
12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont, United StatesThe International Conference for Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be hosted by the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont from July 28-31, 2026. IC2S2 has emerged as the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Call for Papers: Oxford Intersections – Social Media and Language
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 […]
2026 Africa Facts Summit
Protea Hotel Johannesburg Balalaika Sandton Maude Street, Sandown, Sandton, Johannesburg, South AfricaThe 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 […]
Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026
University of Barcelona Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, Eixample, Barcelona, SpainThe 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 […]
2026 Investigative Journalism Week (IJ WEEK)
VirtualThe 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 […]
Barcelona Open Tech Week 2026
Barcelona SpainBarcelona 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, […]
Mozilla Festival 2026
Recinte Fabra i Coats Carrer de Sant Adrià 20, Barcelona, SpainMozilla 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 […]
Responsible Tech Summit: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era
HybridOn October 29, All Tech Is Human will convene the Responsible Tech Summit at The New York Times Center in Manhattan, bringing together leaders from across the Responsible Tech ecosystem […]
PAIRSx Public Sector 2026
Ada Lovelace Institute 100 St John St, London, United KingdomPAIRSx 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 […]
89th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Hotel Bangkok 2 Charoen Krung 30, Bang Rak, Bangkok, ThailandCrossing Boundaries: Advancing Global Dialogue and Well-being through Information Research and Practice Globally, societies are confronted with intensifying political polarization, inequities of access to information resources, eroding public trust, and […]
Youth Facing Disinformation Event – Council of Europe’s Journalists Matter Campaign
European Youth Centre & Palais de l’Europe Avenue de l'Europe, Strasbourg, FranceYoung people today navigate an information space shaped by algorithms, platforms and growing disinformation. At the same time, journalists, whose role is essential in verifying facts and ensuring access to […]
JournalismAI Festival
HybridThe global conversation on journalism and artificial intelligence returns this November. Join us for networking and thought-provoking sessions with industry leaders. The JournalismAI Festival is the premier gathering for journalists, […]
2026 Internet Governance Forum | Governing the Internet in the Age of Intelligence: Our Shared Responsibility
HybridThe 21st annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2026) will be held 14-18 December in Nairobi, Kenya, under the overarching theme, “Governing the Internet in the Age of […]
Digital Competition Conference 2027
Washington, DCThe 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 […]
Global Dialogue on AI Governance 2027
The next Global Dialogue on AI Governance continues in New York from 3–4 May 2027, back-to-back with the 11th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. […]
PAIRS 2027: Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium
HybridThe third edition of PAIRS will take place alongside the Geneva AI Summit. The summit takes place 21 – 22nd June. The in-person component of PAIRS 2027 is planned for Saturday […]
Geneva AI Summit 2027
Palexpo Route François-Peyrot 30, Le Grand-Saconnex, SwitzerlandThe Geneva AI Summit 2027 unites two strategic priorities: AI as a driver of prosperity and progress for all and fostering trustworthy, responsible and safe use of AI. Innovation and […]
2027 AI for Good Global Summit
Attending the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva means immersing yourself in a city at the heart of international cooperation. The iconic Palexpo International Exhibition and Convention Center provides […]