18.9.2025

13./14.11: 2025 Digital Democracy Workshop

Join us for the 6th Annual Digital Democracy Workshop on 13–14 November 2025 at the University of Zurich. The event brings together scholars worldwide to discuss AI, content moderation, elections, participation, and governance, with a keynote by Joshua A. Tucker (NYU).

5.9.2025

25.9.2025: DSI AI Meetup: Best Practices in Deploying AI at Scale

Join us Sept 25, 17:00 at DSI for a hands-on intro to AI in research using UZH S3IT tools, plus networking apéro!

8.4.2025

15.5.2025: DSI AI Meetup: LLMs as a Research Tool in the Social Sciences

Join us for a interdisciplinary roundtable and discussion organized by the DSI Democracy Community on the use of large language models (LLMs) as a research tool in the social sciences.

12.11.2024

28.11.2024: “DSI Democracy meets…”

Join us for a panel discussion organized by the DSI Democracy Community on "From Bots to Debates: AI's Influence on Public Dialogue," which will explore the impact of generative AI on public discourse.

21.10.2024

30.10.24: “Everything You Know About Disinformation is Wrong” as part of the “DSI Disinformation Month”

Despite growing alarm and global efforts to combat disinformation, recent evidence challenges the view that it is a serious threat. We would like to invite you to the lecture "Everything You Know About Disinformation is Wrong" by Dr. Emma Hoes (University of Zurich) and Dr. Sacha Altay (University of Zurich). The lecture is part of the “DSI Disinformation Month” and will be held in English.

16.10.2024

22.10.24: Christopher Klamm on “AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers”

15.8.2024

24./25.10: 2024 Digital Democracy Workshop

The Digital Democracy Workshop is co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative and the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. The workshop aims to facilitate exchange between scholars from different disciplines working on the relationship between digital technology and democracy, broadly understood.

6.5.2024

24./25.10: Call for Papers Digital Democracy Workshop 2024

The Digital Democracy Workshop is co-organized by the Democracy Community of the Digital Society Initiative and the Digital Democracy Lab of the University of Zurich. We invite paper submissions on the relationship between digital technology and democracy, broadly understood. The workshop aims to facilitate exchange between scholars from different disciplines working on these issues.

8.4.2024

25.04 “Governance in International Organizations: Potentials and pitfalls for digitalization”

As part of the "DSI Democracy meets..." event series, researchers from the the University of Zurich and civil society actors will discuss current issues in the field of digitalization and democracy. The panel discussion is organised by the DSI Democracy Community and is aimed at researchers as well as the interested public.

4.3.2024

DSI Democracy Event

Prof. Walter Quattrociocchi will present his research on «Opinions, Polarization and other Monsters» at the DSI Democracy Community Event on 25 March 2024, followed by a Q&A session and an apéro. The event is co-organised with Prof. Alexandre Bovet from the Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning.