FOR 5906 - TP 7: Capabilities and Limitations of Social Control through Data Science Systems

ERCIS Social Media Analytics Competence Center

The Social Media Analytics Competence Center (SMA CC) emerged from the funded BMBF project PropStop and comprises all partners of this consortium. In the meantime, the initial idea of Propstop (addressing the detection of automatically generated propaganda in online media) has become a major issue in societal and scientific discussion. This competence center aims at reaching beyond the boundaries of PropStop and etstablishes a community of researchers and practitioners to address the topics of Disinformation, Propaganda, and Manipulation via Online Media in a multidisciplinary approach.

Architectures for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms to support User Expertise Integration

This project strives to analyze existing algorithm architectures and design new structures such that integration of expertise becomes seamlessly possible. Users should be free of the need to redesign or deeply understand the general algorithms structure.

FOR 5906: The Legal and Social Consequences of Artificial Decision Making

Die Ziele der Forschungsgruppe sind, die Herausforderungen und Potenziale maschineller Entscheidungen für die Funktionen des Rechts in modernen Gesellschaften zu identifizieren, rechtliche Gestaltungsoptionen zu entwickeln und die Aufgabe der Rechtswissenschaft in diesem Zusammenhang neu zu bewerten. Beteiligt sein werden beispielsweise Expertinnen und Experten aus der Rechtsphilosophie, dem Privat-, Gesellschafts- und Zivilverfahrensrecht, dem Arbeits- und Sozialrecht sowie dem Datenschutzrecht und der Kriminologie.

PPP 2024-2025 - The role of Large Language Models in the Detection/Mitigation of Disinformation

What Matters to us: Real-time Image Analysis for Social Media Content Based on Human Attention Mechanisms

Joint Research Project: Real-time detection and analysis of hybrid disinformation campaigns in online media (HybriD)

6th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Online Open Media

Al, human rights and ethics: platform regulation and data protection (in context of the IVAC - International Virtual Academic Collaboration)

PPP Australien 2020: Detection and classification of malicious virtual grassroots influence campaigns

Detection & Analysis of Social Bots in 2021

Joint research project: Identifying, verifying, and stopping concealed propaganda attacks via online media - Sub-Project: Coordination of simulation, identification, and defense against concealed propaganda attacks

This project addresses the identification and verification of (semi-)automated concealed propaganda in online media (e.g. in social networks) as an interdisciplinary approach.

Validation of automated identification of Social Bots