European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger

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European Politics at Saarland University | Empirical EUropean Studies | Comparative Politics | with an interest in Computational Social Science

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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Apr 20

We're #hiring!

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Mar 2

The third #ActEU policy brief has arrived!

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Feb 17

Join us on 5. March for our (German) #PoliSci talk with #UNTWIST: "How political are gender question really?" Sign up here: bit.ly/untwist-gsb

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Feb 16

The second #ActEU policy brief is here!

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Feb 2

A quick summary of the first #ActEU policy brief:

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jan 27

Coming soon: Activating European Citizens’ Trust in Times of Crisis and Polarization This #PoliSci book will explore how trust and legitimacy shape Europe’s representative democracies, introducing the #ActEU framework to assess democratic change and polarization.

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jan 15

We're #hiring: This time we're looking for a project lead assistant for our large-scale #compsocsci project SOUNDS!

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jan 8

👉Register TODAY for the #ActEU final conference "Detached, distrustful, disengaged? Rethinking democracy in today’s Europe" Join us for lively discussions on trust, legitimacy and polarisation in Europe with our diversified and interactive panels!💡 🔗 tepsa.eu/events/acteu...

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Dec 15

Join us in january for a #PoliSci talk by Dr Anne Jadot: "What drives French voters to the polls?"

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Dec 8

Another day, another job ad: We're also looking for a student assistant for a new project at our chair! #hiring

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Dec 1

And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants! #hiring

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Oct 22

How do culture and ideology shape #AI, and how does AI shape them? Join our #PoliSci talk on how values are embedded, contested, and signaled in generative AI systems, and what this means for the politics of AI. Learn more: www.uni-saarland.de/en/chair/bra...

Dr. Pascal König
„From tech wars to tech culture wars? “Value shaping” and “value signaling” in AI system design and governance“
As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly sophisticated in emulating human communication and expressing social values, they also gain greater relevance for questions of culture and identity. This makes it important to take seriously the role of culture in AI in its own right. This article conceptualizes and illustrates major ways in which this value dimension becomes salient and provides an overview of conflicts over embedding culture and political ideology into generative AI systems. Besides an unintentional incorporation of values into AI, governments and businesses intentionally shape the values of AI systems – leading to tensions within and between societies and both on the level of AI system design and governance. Governments and businesses furthermore engage in value signaling as the open recognition of the fact that certain social values and political ideas are embedded in AI systems. These developments add an important facet to the politics of AI.

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Sep 16

We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS! Learn more: bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager #compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Aug 4

Check out our new interdisciplinary volume on border regions as laboratories for researching #Europe! www.nomos-shop.de/isbn/978-3-7... #PoliSci

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jul 1

Our new #PoliSci collected volume on border regions as laboratories of European research is finally here. Check it out (in German): www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jun 25

We're looking for student assistants!

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· May 20

Prof Braun will participate in a TEDx Saarbrigge event as a speaker discussing the challenges of democracy in the digital age. Learn more: www.ted.com/tedx/events/... #PoliSci

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· May 6

Join us online for the ActEU Trans-National Youth Democracy Lab! Learn more: bit.ly/ActEUlab

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Apr 24

Open Day at @uni-saarland.de! Check out our #PoliSci events:

Open Day 24.05.

10:00-16:00 Campus Center
Info booths about research projects & study programmes

Talks in B3 2, 0.03
11:00-11:30: ActEU Youth Democracy Lab
11:30-12:00: Spaces, Politics & Societies of Europe M.A.
12:00-12:30: Border Studies M.A.
12:30-13:00: Results from the Voto project
13:00-14:00: European Studies B.A.
14:00-14:30: European & international politics M.A./Dipl/B.A.

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Apr 23

Join us in #Saarbrücken for our CoCreation workshop about gender policies and their resonance in the population! Learn more: bit.ly/UntwistCCW

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Apr 3

Ulrich Commerçon, leader of the @spdde.bsky.social faction in the #Saarland state parliament, visited @o3pol.bsky.social yesterday. This #PoliSci Observatory led by @rosanavarrete.bsky.social monitors online discourse and has found a sobering truth: lying pays off for politicians. bit.ly/BraunNews

Ulrich Commerçon & Dr Rosa Navarrete discussing the Observatory's work.
© Ulrich Commerçon

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Jan 13

The 4th Europe Conference Saarbrücken took a #PoliSci look at tensions between political aspirations and social reality in #Europe and beyond. Check it out: www.uni-saarland.de/en/instituti...

European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger@politicsunisaar· Dec 17

German chancellor #Scholz lost the vote of confidence paving the way for elections in February. What does this mean for #Germany? Prof Wenzelburger answered this question on Saarland state TV channel SR. Watch the full interview (in German): www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?se... (from 3:41)