Research thrives on exchange. Here you will find the current dates of events and also news about the DIID. In addition, we regularly include summaries of past events to keep you up dated. Unfortunately, the latest news is mainly published in German language.
This year’s Night of Science will take place on 09.09.2022, during which scientists from various disciplines will present their work. Research results from the fields of medicine & nutrition, energy & environment, media & communication and many other disciplines will be presented on Schadowplatz in downtown Düsseldorf. Admission is, of course, free of charge. Further information on the Night of Science and the complete program can be found here.
On 01.07.2022, the DIID Summer Retreat finally took place again in Präsenz after almost two years. The members of DIID and some external guests met at Schloss Mickeln, a conference center of Heinrich Heine University in Alt Himmelgeist.
At the beginning of the retreat, Institute spokesperson Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders welcomed the participants.
On May 02, 2022, the workshop “Conflict Communication 2.0” organized by the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy took place as part of DGPuK 2022.
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On January 21, 2022, the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy (DIID) invited to the Winter Retreat. Due to the pandemic situation, the retreat was held online once again, nevertheless there was a lively discussion culture and many exciting presentations by members of the DIID as well as some guests.
DIID will offer a decentralized workshop on “Conflict Communication 2.0” as part of the DGPuK annual conference “Wir müssen reden”. The workshop will take place on February 22 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Werft 0.1 under the 2G+ regulation.
Further information on the annual conference can be found here.
As in the year prior, the general meeting, followed by a board meeting, was held online on December 7, 2021.
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Public broadcasting is more controversial than ever. However, in public, discussions about it are mostly conducted by the same experts and actors from politics and civil society. In Cooperation with the Grimme Institute and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education), the DIID has set up the online participation process #meinfernsehen2021 to explore the questions: Public broadcasting – What needs to change, what should remain in television?
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More and more municipalities in Germany are issuing guidelines for public participation. However, how these guidelines fit into the legal regulations at national and European level, to what extent these also make standards of good participation (in our understanding: deliberative participation) binding, and whether these make any difference at all to participation practice on the ground, has not yet been sufficiently researched.
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The use of artificial intelligence can facilitate journalistic work on various levels; in addition to distributing news, AI systems can now take over research tasks as well as write articles themselves. In the latest survey conducted as part of MeMo:KI, which polls the German population’s attitudes to AI fortnightly, the focus was precisely on this topic.
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After the pandemic-caused postponement and one year of waiting the conference on the Future of Online Discussions (FoOD) was held on 04th and 5th March 2021. The conference was jointly organized by the DIID and the Graduate School Online Participation.
Online participation processes are not only one of the most important research topics of the DIID, but have also been conducted here regularly since its foundation. In order to be on the cutting edge of technology, the DIID now uses adhocracy+, an open source software. It is primarily developed by Liquid Democracy e.V. and enables the simple creation and implementation of participation processes.
Due to the Corona pandemic, we were forced to postpone the conference “The Future of Online Discussions” (FoOD) planned for March 2020 at short notice. The alternate date in August was also impossible to keep. After internal consultations, we have now decided to hold the event virtually via the online tool Webex on March 4 and 5, 2021.
In times of the corona pandemic, the DIID works entirely in digital space
On January 19th 2020, the Duesseldorf Institute of internet and Democracy invited its members and board to its annual winter retreat.Weiterlesen
What is Artificial Intelligence? What can it do, which risks are connected to it and how do they challenge social practices?Weiterlesen
On December 9th, 2019 the Members of the Duesseldorf Institute of Internet and Democracy (DIID) gathered for a general assembly that also included the election of a new board.Weiterlesen
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For more information about the international workshop 2018 take a look here.
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