TRR 318-2 - Constructing Explainability

The scope of the EU right to explanation has fueled the need to improve eXplainable Artificial Intelligence capacities aiming at strengthening the rights of individuals affected by AI-based recommendations. Among other purposes, explanations serve the right to contest an AI output and protect humans from being left out of control. However, ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project B06: Ethics and normativity of explainable AI

B06 investigates the normative purposes of XAI. In the first funding period we have established that there are many different normative grounds for XAI. To assess them, it is necessary to take the organizational context of XAI into account. To that aim, media studies will clarify the organizational context in which XAI is embedded, where this ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

INNOVADE: INNOVAtive DEmocracy Through Digitalisation

INNOVADE ist ein internationales, interdisziplinäres, dreijähriges Horizon Europe EU-Projekt, in dem die digitale Demokratie erforscht wird. Die elf beteiligten Teams kommen aus den Feldern der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie, der Anthropologie, der Informatik, den Security Studies, der ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027

Together online: Searching.Finding.Understanding - strengthening digital skills in families

The aim is to support digital skills through a family literacy program. The subject of the educational program is the intergenerational acquisition of digital information research. The team is inter- and transdisciplinary: psychologists, media education, together with an education institution (Neue Wege des Lernens e. V.), and an Adult and Family ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2028

TRR 318 - Subproject IRG PB - Developing a symmetric mental models approach

Duration: 11/2023 - 10/2026

VR@UPB: Etablierung eines zentralen VR-Teams an der Universität Paderborn

Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2026

Contact: Dr. Hoang Trang Tran-Thien

Political Economy of the Media and Communication

The goal of this project is to theorise and analyse the politics and economy of the media and communication as well as the combination of politics and economy of the media and communication (political economy). It elaborates contributions to the international research field of the Political Economy of Communication and the Media.The main question ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Political Economy of Digital Media and Digital Communication

The goal of this project is to ground the foundations and develop the approach of the Political Economy of Digital Media and Communication. It applies the international research and theory approach of the Political Economy of the Media and Communication to the realms of the Internet and digital media.The project theorises and analyses the politics ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Agentic Media: Formationen von Semi-Autonomie

Das Projekt untersucht die Formierung und Ausdifferenzierung neuartiger Medientechnologien aus Software- und Hardwarekomponenten, die als (semi )autonome Entitäten agieren. In komplementär angelegten Fallstudien zu Figurationen der Zusammenarbeit mit synthetischen Agenten, dem Sense-Making über generative Machine Learning-Modelle sowie der ...

Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2027

TRR 318-2 - Constructing Explainability

The scope of the EU right to explanation has fueled the need to improve eXplainable Artificial Intelligence capacities aiming at strengthening the rights of individuals affected by AI-based recommendations. Among other purposes, explanations serve the right to contest an AI output and protect humans from being left out of control. However, ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project B06: Ethics and normativity of explainable AI

B06 investigates the normative purposes of XAI. In the first funding period we have established that there are many different normative grounds for XAI. To assess them, it is necessary to take the organizational context of XAI into account. To that aim, media studies will clarify the organizational context in which XAI is embedded, where this ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

INNOVADE: INNOVAtive DEmocracy Through Digitalisation

INNOVADE ist ein internationales, interdisziplinäres, dreijähriges Horizon Europe EU-Projekt, in dem die digitale Demokratie erforscht wird. Die elf beteiligten Teams kommen aus den Feldern der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, der Politikwissenschaft, der Soziologie, der Anthropologie, der Informatik, den Security Studies, der ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027

Together online: Searching.Finding.Understanding - strengthening digital skills in families

The aim is to support digital skills through a family literacy program. The subject of the educational program is the intergenerational acquisition of digital information research. The team is inter- and transdisciplinary: psychologists, media education, together with an education institution (Neue Wege des Lernens e. V.), and an Adult and Family ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2028

TRR 318 - Subproject IRG PB - Developing a symmetric mental models approach

Duration: 11/2023 - 10/2026

VR@UPB: Etablierung eines zentralen VR-Teams an der Universität Paderborn

Duration: 11/2022 - 10/2026

Contact: Dr. Hoang Trang Tran-Thien

Political Economy of the Media and Communication

The goal of this project is to theorise and analyse the politics and economy of the media and communication as well as the combination of politics and economy of the media and communication (political economy). It elaborates contributions to the international research field of the Political Economy of Communication and the Media.The main question ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Political Economy of Digital Media and Digital Communication

The goal of this project is to ground the foundations and develop the approach of the Political Economy of Digital Media and Communication. It applies the international research and theory approach of the Political Economy of the Media and Communication to the realms of the Internet and digital media.The project theorises and analyses the politics ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2030

Agentic Media: Formationen von Semi-Autonomie

Das Projekt untersucht die Formierung und Ausdifferenzierung neuartiger Medientechnologien aus Software- und Hardwarekomponenten, die als (semi )autonome Entitäten agieren. In komplementär angelegten Fallstudien zu Figurationen der Zusammenarbeit mit synthetischen Agenten, dem Sense-Making über generative Machine Learning-Modelle sowie der ...

Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2027