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ÖSTERREICHISCHER RUNDFUNK | Flood of Fake News | Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer

What impact does fake news have on social media platforms? New technologies always attract a lot of public attention. HfP Professor Jürgen Pfeffer…

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TUM honours Prof. Stefan Wurster for Excellence in Teaching

For his outstanding commitment to teaching, the Technical University of Munich honoured HfP Professor Stefan Wurster with the TUM Certificate of…

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Heureka Student Award

Isabella Waldorf, alumna of the "Politics & Technology" degree program, received the third prize of the Heureka Student Award at heureka'24 in…

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Events

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Viewing Algorithms as Emerging Institutions | A conversation with Virgilio Almeida

In today’s societies algorithms are shaping norms and environments for both humans and machines. Therefore, they function more like institutions,…

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Superhuman intelligent machines from the Leviathan to Meta | David Runciman

Are new technologies synonymous with political loss of control? As part of the event series "The Two Faces of Digital Democracy," David Runciman…

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TUM Think Tank: Thursday Mixer is back with a slightly new format

The Thursday Mixer provides an platform for discussions on pressing issues and approaches to solutions, open to all. Every Thursday, topics such as…

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Publications

  • Bronner, Pascal; Rachut, Sarah; Ziegler, Nicolas: Der „Digital Power Gap“ des Arbeitskreis Digitales. Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht, JuWissBlog Nr. 2/2024 v. 11.01.2024 (Berlin) , 2024, more…
  • Palmtag, Tabea; Paula, Katrin; Rommel, Tobias: Beyond Economic Development? Foreign Direct Investment and Pre-Election Violence. Journal of Peace Research, 2024 more…
  • Veltri, Giuseppe Alessandro; Steinert, Janina Isabel; Sternberg, Henrike; Galizzi, Matteo M.; Fasolo, Barbara; Kourtidis, Ploutarchos; Büthe, Tim; Gaskell, George: Assessing the perceived effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-Cov-2 transmission risk: an experimental study in Europe. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 2024 more…
  • Kirkizh, Nora; Ulloa, Roberto; Stier, Sebastian; Pfeffer, Jürgen: Predicting political attitudes from web tracking data: a machine learning approach. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2024, 1-14 more…
  • Rong, Yao; Leemann, Tobias; Nguyen, Thai-Trang; Fiedler, Lisa; Qian, Peizhu; Unhelkar, Vaibhav; Seidel, Tina; Kasneci, Gjergji; Kasneci, Enkelejda: Towards Human-Centered Explainable AI: A Survey of User Studies for Model Explanations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024, 1-20 more…