Enabler: Simplified concealment

Encounters with living witnesses of the Holocaust are an important part of Holocaust education. But can the memories also be made accessible digitally and interactively for future generations?

Interacting with voice-based AI systems such as Alexa can be complex. Misconceptions can make it difficult to use. However, skills for self-determined use can be trained.

Web design controls what we see or buy online. Dark patterns exploit this, draw attention, obscure and influence decisions – with a range of negative effects on users.

Ransomware encrypts data and extorts money for its release. Thanks to better technology and digital payments, these globally lucrative and difficult-to-trace attacks are on the rise.

Hate speech on social media contributes to social division and the escalation of conflicts. Platforms change the dynamics of hate speech and make this form of digital violence particularly explosive.

Digital communities are based on algorithmically mediated social relationships in digital space. They enable flexible participation and intensive interaction and form a new dimension of communitization.

Online misogyny is embedded in existing political structures of discrimination and oppression and affects women who belong to minorities or historically disadvantaged groups with particular severity.

Dark social media are communication services that cannot be viewed by third parties. They enable private and pseudonymous interactions that can take on public dimensions and change our social discourse.

Examples from Estonia, the USA, India and Brazil show this: Political elections can certainly be digitized – in Germany, the main thing missing is a suitable organizational and governance structure.

Can deliberately false, digital news reports (disinformation) influence the outcome of elections? Who spreads such false reports and what can be done about it?