Marco Waehner
@marco-waehner.bsky.social
Postdoc at CAIS | Team Research Data & Methods | Sociology | CSS
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🚨 Application deadline approaching!
Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
📢 Apply now:
Form your own CAIS Working Group 2026!
Work interdisciplinarily on digital transformation, get funding, and meet in Bochum. Travel & accommodation covered.
👉 For Working Group Meetings starting from March 2026
🗓 Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
Form your own CAIS Working Group 2026!
Work interdisciplinarily on digital transformation, get funding, and meet in Bochum. Travel & accommodation covered.
👉 For Working Group Meetings starting from March 2026
🗓 Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
July 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🚨 Application deadline approaching!
Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany.
🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Don’t miss the chance: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
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📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
July 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond:
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
Today, the @ec.europa.eu adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
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Morgen noch nichts vor und zufällig in Düsseldorf? Ich halte einen Workshop dazu, wie und warum KI diskriminierend sein kann und wie wir damit umgehen können! Tickets sind kostenlos! 🦜
📌Reminder: Am Samstag hält Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam im Rahmen von disCONNECT & CREATE auf dem HHU-Campus einen Workshop zu "Wer trifft die Entscheidung? Was jede:r über KI & Diskriminierung wissen sollte".
Bucht euch ein kostenloses Ticket und kommt vorbei!
@ahrabhikat.bsky.social @hhu.de
Bucht euch ein kostenloses Ticket und kommt vorbei!
@ahrabhikat.bsky.social @hhu.de
👉 Am 21. Juni, 14:30-16:00 Uhr:
Workshop mit Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social – ⚖️ „Wer trifft die Entscheidung? Was jede:r über KI & Diskriminierung wissen sollte“. Erfahre, wie Algorithmen unser Leben beeinflussen & lerne Tools, um sie kritisch zu hinterfragen.
#FutureMeetsYou
Workshop mit Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social – ⚖️ „Wer trifft die Entscheidung? Was jede:r über KI & Diskriminierung wissen sollte“. Erfahre, wie Algorithmen unser Leben beeinflussen & lerne Tools, um sie kritisch zu hinterfragen.
#FutureMeetsYou
June 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Morgen noch nichts vor und zufällig in Düsseldorf? Ich halte einen Workshop dazu, wie und warum KI diskriminierend sein kann und wie wir damit umgehen können! Tickets sind kostenlos! 🦜
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🚀 Apply now for the #CAISFellowship 2026/27!
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
+ Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟
🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege #Bochum
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
+ Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟
🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege #Bochum
June 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚀 Apply now for the #CAISFellowship 2026/27!
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
+ Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟
🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege #Bochum
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
+ Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟
🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege #Bochum
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How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS?
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗
Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗
Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...
May 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
How were, are, and can we measure #racism using #CSS?
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗
Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...
Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗
Want to take a closer look? Here you go: ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...
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Are you interested in social science methods training?
Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...
Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...
May 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Are you interested in social science methods training?
Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...
Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social: methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...
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🔍 Meet the #CAISfellows: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona @david-guerrero.bsky.social
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom”
🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom”
🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression
May 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🔍 Meet the #CAISfellows: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona @david-guerrero.bsky.social
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom”
🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom”
🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression
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I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨
🎓 Workshop at CAIS:
From Awareness to Action – Addressing Discrimination & Power in Academia
🗓 May 13, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Hybrid (Bochum & online)
By Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social
💡 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/event/mod...
Open to all, especially PhDs & postdocs!
From Awareness to Action – Addressing Discrimination & Power in Academia
🗓 May 13, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Hybrid (Bochum & online)
By Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social
💡 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/event/mod...
Open to all, especially PhDs & postdocs!
May 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨
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Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat @carlislerainey.bsky.social #MetaScience doi.org/10.1017/S104... Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/
April 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat @carlislerainey.bsky.social #MetaScience doi.org/10.1017/S104... Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/
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How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!
April 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!
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🎌 CAIS in Japan:
Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".
Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".
April 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🎌 CAIS in Japan:
Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".
Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at #CHI2025. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".
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Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌
We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
#COMPTEXT2025 is just 2 days away, and we cannot be more excited to meet all participants at the University of Vienna. Please find the updated and final program here: bit.ly/42WZKZa. Please find the city guide for your time in Vienna here: bit.ly/3RsZY3R See you later this week!
April 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌
We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
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📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025
The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online
More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online
More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025
The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online
More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
The program of the #GESISfallseminar is out & registration is open!
🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025
Venue (depending on course):
🏢 GESIS Mannheim
💻 Online
More info & registration at gesis.org/fallseminar
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🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications
At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs)
Interested? Check out the call below!
DL April 17
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Reach out for any Q
At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs)
Interested? Check out the call below!
DL April 17
Please repost for N and diversity
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Reach out for any Q
🚀 Champion #OpenScience at EJPR!
📘 Our flagship journal is making open scholarship central to its new agenda, and we need an Editor with vision and expertise to lead this bold initiative
✨ Could this be you? 👉 Apply by Thu 17 Apr
📘 Our flagship journal is making open scholarship central to its new agenda, and we need an Editor with vision and expertise to lead this bold initiative
✨ Could this be you? 👉 Apply by Thu 17 Apr
Call for Editor of Open Science – EJPR
Lead the charge in enhancing EJPR's open science and replication policies. Apply by 17 April.
ecpr.eu
March 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications
At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs)
Interested? Check out the call below!
DL April 17
Please repost for N and diversity
👇👇👇
Reach out for any Q
At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs)
Interested? Check out the call below!
DL April 17
Please repost for N and diversity
👇👇👇
Reach out for any Q
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✨ Studierende aufgepasst!
Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review.
✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals
✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten
✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse
🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!
Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review.
✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals
✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten
✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse
🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!
March 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
✨ Studierende aufgepasst!
Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review.
✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals
✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten
✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse
🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!
Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review.
✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals
✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten
✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse
🚀 Join #TeamCAIS!
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Das CAIS unterstützt Empfehlungen für ein unabhängiges und wirksames Desinformationsmonitoring im digitalen Raum, initiiert von Bertelsmann-Stiftung @bertelsmannst.bsky.social und @cemas.io – Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie. Zum Newsbeitrag: www.cais-research.de/news/empfehl...
March 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Das CAIS unterstützt Empfehlungen für ein unabhängiges und wirksames Desinformationsmonitoring im digitalen Raum, initiiert von Bertelsmann-Stiftung @bertelsmannst.bsky.social und @cemas.io – Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie. Zum Newsbeitrag: www.cais-research.de/news/empfehl...
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At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH, we have provided recommendations on establishing independent and effective disinformation monitoring in digital spaces for the next German federal government.
Stimmen aus dem #CAIS: Das CAIS sieht den offenen Brief als wichtigen Impuls, um der Verbreitung von Desinformation wirkungsvoll zu begegnen. Die Empfehlungen stärken die unabhängige Meinungsbildung und den Zugang zu verlässlichen Informationen. @hheuer.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH, we have provided recommendations on establishing independent and effective disinformation monitoring in digital spaces for the next German federal government.
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New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me:
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
rrr.is/dbdethics
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
rrr.is/dbdethics
rrr.is
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me:
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
rrr.is/dbdethics
"Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
rrr.is/dbdethics
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Interested in conducting #comparative research? Check out our review of articles from 2003-2021 to get an insight into trends and what we still lack in #commsky comparative studies! 🚀
How inclusive is comparative communication research? We reviewed articles from 2003–2021 and found:
🔍 Growth in comparative studies, but still limited presence
🗂️ Quant methods dominate
🌍 Western cases & authors prevail
Time for more global perspectives! #Comparative ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
🔍 Growth in comparative studies, but still limited presence
🗂️ Quant methods dominate
🌍 Western cases & authors prevail
Time for more global perspectives! #Comparative ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns | Lind | International Journal of Communication
Research Practices in Comparative Communication Research: Visibility, Topical and Geographical Disparities, and their Longitudinal Patterns
ijoc.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Interested in conducting #comparative research? Check out our review of articles from 2003-2021 to get an insight into trends and what we still lack in #commsky comparative studies! 🚀
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Do you want to learn more about our upcoming #CHI2025 contributions to AI, HCI, Content Moderation, Journalism, and Chatbots? 🤖✨
Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program!
📅 5.3.25 16h
📍 Bochum & Webex
Register via email: [email protected]
Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program!
📅 5.3.25 16h
📍 Bochum & Webex
Register via email: [email protected]
March 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Do you want to learn more about our upcoming #CHI2025 contributions to AI, HCI, Content Moderation, Journalism, and Chatbots? 🤖✨
Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program!
📅 5.3.25 16h
📍 Bochum & Webex
Register via email: [email protected]
Join our @cais-research.bsky.social Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program!
📅 5.3.25 16h
📍 Bochum & Webex
Register via email: [email protected]
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Wie politisch sind die TikTok-Feeds? Und wie beeinflusst das die Meinungsbildung? @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social und Uni Zürich starten zusammen mit @br24.de & @stuttgarter-zeitung.de ein Datenspendeprojekt. Hierfür sind wir auf Mithilfe von TikTok-Nutzern angewiesen: dein-feed-deine-wahl.de
Dein Feed, Deine Wahl
Dies ist die offizielle Seite des Datenspende-Projekts 'Dein Feed, Deine Wahl'.
dein-feed-deine-wahl.de
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Wie politisch sind die TikTok-Feeds? Und wie beeinflusst das die Meinungsbildung? @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social und Uni Zürich starten zusammen mit @br24.de & @stuttgarter-zeitung.de ein Datenspendeprojekt. Hierfür sind wir auf Mithilfe von TikTok-Nutzern angewiesen: dein-feed-deine-wahl.de
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Some say: science runs on caffeine, panic, and last-minute submissions - so don't miss our deadline tomorrow! ☕📄🔥 #CfP
#CallForPapers Only 6 days left to submit your paper! Join us at the Interdisciplinary Conference: "Creating Spaces for Digital Futures" in Bochum! Exploring how digital spaces are created, shaped & experienced 📅 Oct 9-10, 2025 | 📝 Submit by Feb 15, 2025!🔗 www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...
February 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some say: science runs on caffeine, panic, and last-minute submissions - so don't miss our deadline tomorrow! ☕📄🔥 #CfP
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Exciting news! ✨A #SpecialIssue in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication! 🔗 More info: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... @policyr.bsky.social #InternetPolicyReview
February 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Exciting news! ✨A #SpecialIssue in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication! 🔗 More info: www.cais-research.de/creating-spa... @policyr.bsky.social #InternetPolicyReview