{"id":7812,"date":"2026-03-25T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-news&#038;p=7812"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T09:30:35","slug":"digitalisation-research-seminar-digisem-2026","status":"publish","type":"hbi-news","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-news\/news\/digitalisation-research-seminar-digisem-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Digitalisation Research Seminar (DigiSem) 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Digitalisation Research Seminar (DigiSem) will be held from September 21 to 22 at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Early-career researchers (doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and master\u2019s students) are invited to present their research and play a key role in shaping the event. Participation is free of charge. Abstracts will be accepted as of April 1.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Topic: Digital Safety<\/h2>\n<p>This year, the seminar will focus on digital safety as an interdisciplinary, human-centered field of research. The overarching theme is &#8220;Balancing Digital Safety between Risks, Rights, and Regulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Early-career researchers are invited to present their work on topics such as the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of technologies to increase security<\/li>\n<li>Risks of using AI on bias and decision making<\/li>\n<li>Regulation of social media for human and societal safety<\/li>\n<li>Protection of of vulnerable groups (esp. children and young people) in the digital space<\/li>\n<li>Criminal misuse of digital technologies (deep fakes, doxing, cybercrime, identity theft,<br \/>\netc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As part of the seminar, Prof. Dr. Lena K\u00e4stner (University of Bayreuth) will deliver a keynote presentation on the topic \u201cDigital Safety \u2013 A Political, Technical and Social Reflection of Current Developments\u201d (Working title).<\/p>\n<h2>Important Dates<\/h2>\n<p>CfP opens: 01 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for abstract submission: 01 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Registration opens: 01 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for registration: 07 September 2026<\/p>\n<p>DigiSem: 21 to 22 September 2026<\/p>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p>You can register via <a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/account\/signin?l=3155503998889486865.1774447133.3195e77e\">EasyChair<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bidt.digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/CfP_DigiSem2026-1.pdf\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:k.mosene@leibniz-hbi.de\">Katharina Mosene<\/a> from the HBI will be happy to answer any questions.<\/p>\n<h2>Organization<\/h2>\n<p>The Digitalization Research Seminar (DigiSem) is organized by the Weizenbaum Institute (WI), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), and the HBI.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AI-generated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7796,"template":"","categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7812","hbi-news","type-hbi-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digitalisation Research Seminar (DigiSem) 2026 - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The theme of this year&#039;s Digitalisation Research Seminar (DigiSem) is &quot;Balancing Digital Safety between Risks, Rights, and Regulation.&quot; The seminar will take place in Berlin on September 21\u201322. 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