How can we understand the social and human dimensions of digitalisation? How can digitalisation be more aligned with human values? Following these questions, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund launched its first “Digital Humanism” call for scientific projects in 2020, followed by a second call for projects in 2023. The core element of the calls was to bring together scientists from the computer sciences and social sciences and humanities.
In this session, the project teams will take us on a journey to understand the specifics of doing “Digital Humanism research”. What are the challenges faced by interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists and researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities and do these collaborations lead to unexpected outcomes?
Join us for this session of lightning talks and take the opportunity to connect with the researchers afterwards. We’ll learn about the project outcomes, the research planned, and how their work could impact our digital future.
This panel is co-organised with the Vienna Science and Technology Fund.
Projects & speakers
In order of the lightning talks:
Lisette Espín-Noboa
Complexity Science Hub
“Humanized Algorithms: Identifying and Mitigating Algorithmic Biases in Social Networks”
Agata Ciabattoni
TU Wien
“Acquiring and explaining norms for AI systems”
Matthias Zeppelzauer
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
“Young People Against Online Hate: Computer-assisted Strategies for Facilitating Citizen-generated Counter Speech”
Hossein Kermani
University of Vienna
“Beyond computational propaganda and bot activism: Investigating social media suppression in authoritarian regimes”
Margarete Jahrmann
University of Applied Arts Vienna
“Robopsychologists: An Artistic Exploration of Collective Memory through Role-Playing with AI Language Models”
Regina Schuster
University of Vienna
Laura Koesten
MBZUAI and University of Vienna
“Talking Charts”
Pia Pachinger
TU Wien
Anna Maria Planitzer
University of Vienna
“Transparent Automated Content Moderation (TACo)”
Peter Knees
TU Wien
“Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism: Shaping Research, Educating the Next Generation”
Eugenia Stamboliev
University of Vienna
“Decentralized Trust in Digital Societies”