Making sense of our connected world
Hijacking Hashtags in Times of COVID-19: How the Far-Right Polarises Twitter
We find evidence that German far-right partisans systematically made use of COVID-19 related hashtags to polarise the debate on the corona virus and social distancing.
Collaborative problem solving and knowledge production
Saving lives with an app, supporting non-profit organisations through data analysis – these are two of the many ways of digital civic engagement. Within the framework of our project “Jung. Digital. Engaged.” we have portrayed young people who volunteer for good in the fields of civil knowledge production and collaborative problem solving.
The use of AI in HR management – Curse or blessing?
During the first Pop-Up Lab of HIIG’s AI & Society Lab an interdisciplinary team of researchers tackled pressing issues at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and HR management over…
Beyond Silicon Valley
The Internet, it is often said, provides equal access to knowledge and to markets. It opens up new opportunities for economic success and prosperity in disadvantaged regions or even continents,…
Discrimination preprogrammed?
Technology is never neutral. And even if the Internet as a medium initially invited us to deconstruct established, fixed role models and identities in supposedly new publics, to break up…
Despite digital work: hierarchies remain
Providers, such as Slack, Trello or Yam, advertise to increase the participation of employees in organisations. Their software (“enterprise social software”) creates company-internal communication channels that function similar to social…
Digital Ethics
Whether civil society, politics or science – everyone seems to agree that the New Twenties will be characterised by digitalisation. But what about the tension of digital ethics? How do we create a digital transformation involving society as a whole, including people who either do not have the financial means or the necessary know-how to benefit from digitalisation? And what do these comprehensive changes in our actions mean for democracy? In this dossier we want to address these questions and offer food for thought on how we can use digitalisation for the common good.
