In our latest episode of Schampar digital, we talk to Céline Külling-Knecht about young people’s leisure activities. The JAMES Study 2024 shows how their media use is changing. While new trends such as TikTok and AI tools are becoming increasingly important, the basic needs of young people remain largely constant.… Read More »How young people spend their free time
For a few days now, Spotify has been offering its subscribers a personal review of their music year. Spotify Wrapped is popular, but is also sparking discussions about algorithms, data protection and the reduction of music to consumption. The debate raises fundamental questions: How does Spotify control what we listen… Read More »Spotify Wrapped, streaming and the power of playlists
Lesley Spiegel will hand over the management of DIZH at the end of November 2024. After starting in April 2020, Lesley has built up the DIZH office and driven forward DIZH’s activities in all areas. Committees, processes and funding instruments were established. One important step was the introduction of the… Read More »Change of managing director DIZH
Innovation meets responsibility Five funded projects provide impetus for responsible innovations in education, society, AI, communication and finance. Five projects are being funded in the 2nd structure call of the DIZH Innovation Program. The approaches range from the integration of immersive technologies in education, the innovative measurement of social well-being… Read More »DIZH promotes 5 innovation structures
How can archives become “vaults of truth” in a world in which the past can be regenerated and combined by AI? Patrick “Karpi” Karpiczenko and Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor for Digital Cultures and Arts at the University of Zurich and the ZHdK, explored these exciting questions. Their inspiring conversation… Read More »DIZH bridge professor Roland Meyer as a guest on SRF’s “Kulturplatz” program
Alexandra Garazha, along with Gerhard Schwabe, Liudmila Zavolokina and Cédric Merz, recently published a paper at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) titled “Resilience in Times of Crisis: Empowering Refugees with Self-Sovereign Identity”. The paper was nominated for the best paper award. ICIS is the biggest international conference on… Read More »ICIS’24 Best Paper Nomination for the Publication on Digital Identity for Refugees
In his second mission, comedian Frank Richter embarks on a journey of discovery to find out which machines are having a lasting impact on our everyday lives and how digitalization is influencing analogue activities. To find answers, he interviews visitors to Technorama, meets a dystopian robot and talks to researcher… Read More »How machines are changing our lives
DLH Innovation Fund for innovative, digitally supported teaching projects at secondary level II There are many ideas for innovative, digitally supported teaching projects at upper secondary schools. The right partners and resources are needed to implement and disseminate them. To this end, the Digital Learning Hub Sek II (DLH) operates… Read More »Promotion of educational innovations at upper secondary level
Can artificial intelligence be held responsible for mistakes? What do algorithms have to do with a functioning democracy? And how can ChatGPT make a real difference in health research? The University of Zurich’s Digital Society Initiative (DSI) provides answers to these and many other questions. In the DSI Spotlights, various… Read More »Know more in three minutes
Religious Influencing & Digital Religion Digital technologies and social media are changing how religion is lived and communicated. Instead of going to church on Sunday, people can now discover spiritual content on Instagram or TikTok and even chat with “AI Jesus”. But what does this mean for theology and the… Read More »New podcast episode: Faith in the app store