Event Calendar YouTube Videos Open positions Educational Resources News from the institutePressUS court rules that social media platforms are bad for mental healthMatthias Kettemann discusses the court case lost by Meta and Google in the US on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.PressThe digital 2000s: the rise of smartphones, computer games and social mediaJeanette Hofmann talks about the digitalisation between 2000 and 2009 on radioeins.PublicationNavigating CrisisOur new Learn-and-Do Kit supports higher education institutions in strengthening their resilience through creativity. Digital Society Blog Algorithms under scrunity: AI observatories as democratic infrastructure Paola Cantarini Guerra on 10 April 2026 Forget the “killing machine”: why AI is a question of responsibility, not apocalypse Matthias C. Kettemann, Frederik Efferenn on 18 March 2026 The bot that bit back: AI agents, defamation and the digital construction of identity J. Nörz, M. Wiechert & W. Schulz on 11 March 2026 Go to Digital Society Blog
