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🎉 KU Leuven Digital Humanities: 10 Years Strong!

The KU Leuven Master’s in Digital Humanities, co-organized by DigiSoc, celebrates a decade of interdisciplinary research & innovation.

📅 26 May | 📍 Leuven
Join us for talks, panels & more!
🔗 Program & registration: bit.ly/4iZTC87

#DigiSoc #KULeuven
April 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hello, BlueSky!
DigiSoc is here! Let’s connect and work towards an inclusive, responsible, and ethical digital society together!

#DigitalEthics #AIforSociety #KULeuven
February 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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DigiSoc Director Prof. @biekezaman.bsky.social will give a talk on responsible & participatory research in a digital society at PPGCIN, Brazil.

📅 25 April, 14:00 BRT
📍 Porto Alegre
🎙️ Talk in English, with PT interpretation
Info: www.ufrgs.br/ppgcin/

#DigiSoc #KULeuven #PPGCIN #UFRGS #EthicalTech
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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DigiSoc Director Bieke Zaman will be speaking at the University of Quebec in Montreal tomorrow at 13:30 ETS on "The Other Side of Video Games: Loot Boxes, Influencers, and Gambling Among Teens."

#Gaming #Gambling #DigitalSociety #DigiSoc
biekezaman.bsky.social Bieke Zaman @biekezaman.bsky.social · Feb 20
Will present the results of the Gam(e)(a)ble project at Homoludens.ca UQAM this Friday. It will be all (or not) about lootboxes #videogames #adolescents 🎮🎁. Excited to meet the team.

Je présenterai "L'envers des jeux vidéo : boîtes a butin, influenceurs et jeux d'argent chez les ados"
Information conférence publique
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Big news🎉The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog is moving to @digisoc.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social for her incredible work as founding editor-in-chief. We warmly welcome @biekezaman.bsky.social to the team!

✨Stay tuned for our next blogposts at kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog
March 23, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Bourse – LECTIO & DigiSoc Visiting Fellowship 2025–2026

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Bourse – LECTIO & DigiSoc Visiting Fellowship 2025–2026
For the academic year 2025–2026, LECTIO and DigiSoc (through its Working Group Media and Culture) are pleased to announce the second edition of their joint non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowship.…
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April 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Will you also submit to the 1st International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society (IDS2025)?

⏱️Deadline: 3 March (extended!)

IDS2025 provides a global platform for an inclusive digital world, hosted by @digisoc.bsky.social
🗓️ 15 & 16 Sept. 2025
📍 Leuven, Belgium
👉 inclusivedigitalsociety.eu
Welcome to the International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society (IDS2025), hosted and organised by the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute (DigiSoc) on the 15th and 16th of September 2025 in the historic and vibrant city of Leuven, Belgium.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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📢 Apply now for the 2025–2026 LECTIO & DigiSoc Visiting Fellowship at KU Leuven! Research the reception of the past in today’s digital society.

🗓️ Deadline: May 20, 2025
🔗 Info: bit.ly/4idcZJT

#DigitalHistory #KULeuven #DigiSoc
April 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🎮 DigiSoc Director @biekezaman.bsky.social will give a talk on "Le design éthique de jeux vidéo pour enfants" (Ethical Design of Video Games for Children) at UQAM, Canada, on March 12, 2025.

For more information: bit.ly/4btvrfu

#KULeuven #VideoGames #GameStudies #ChildOnlineSafety
March 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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📢 New blogpost!

When #AI systems cause harm, responsibility is rarely straightforward.

In a new blogpost, Chee Hae Chung unpacks how the #AI #accountability gap reflects not only legal shortcomings but deeper epistemic, institutional and geopolitical failures.

🔗 www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog...
May 26, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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🤖 Interested in #AI and the latest legal, ethical and policy discussions regarding age verification, medical real-world data evidence, accountability and AI-driven searchability?

🔗Check out our recent posts: www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog

Thanks to all authors! Stay tuned, we’re back in September 👀
August 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Big news 🎉 We’re excited to officially host The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog at @digisoc.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social for her work as founding editor-in-chief. We warmly welcome @biekezaman.bsky.social to the team.

Stay tuned!✨
🔗https://www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog
March 23, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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I sat down with David Geerts to talk about AI, the future of work & neo-Aristotelian flourishing for the latest episode of the KU Leuven DigiSoc podcast. Enjoy the full discussion here: open.spotify.com/episode/5ZWo...
June 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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🎉Exciting news: The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog has found a new home at @digisoc.bsky.social!

You can now find us at kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog & follow us on BlueSky & LinkedIn 🤓📚
digisoc.bsky.social KU Leuven Digital Society Institute (DigiSoc) @digisoc.bsky.social · Mar 23
Big news 🎉 We’re excited to officially host The Law, Ethics & Policy of AI Blog at @digisoc.bsky.social!

Huge thanks to @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social for her work as founding editor-in-chief. We warmly welcome @biekezaman.bsky.social to the team.

Stay tuned!✨
🔗https://www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog
March 23, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Want to make your digital services more inclusive? LOOK-IT by DigiSoc is here to help—for free 🚀

LOOK-IT will support Belgium-based organizations in developing inclusive digital apps—at no cost!

🏛 Funded by the Federal Public Service Economy.
📩 Apply now: bit.ly/4bS79fh

📸 by Marvin Meyer
March 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📢 Call for Contributions! We are launching a new Blog Symposium on Digital Inequality, aiming at perspectives from various disciplines and professional backgrounds. Abstract deadline is 23 October. Looking forward to reading your perspectives!
👉 More information here: www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog...
September 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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#Embedding models facilitate new monitoring and analysis possibilities for governments and companies.

In our final pre-summer break blogpost, Jorrit Van Assen (@oii.ox.ac.uk) explains the capabilities of embedding models and their implications for #surveillance.

🔗 www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog...
June 18, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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⏱️ 15 days left to register for our fourth
#Hybrid Course on Digital Ethics!
www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/educ...
April 13, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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It was a pleasure to take part in the #SummerSchool organized by the KU Leuven Digital Society Institute yesterday! A special thank you to Priscilla Van Even for the invitation to share some art-based methods with students from the Zhejiang university in China.
#VisionArte
#Digisoc
#KuLeuven
July 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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👟 Our hybrid Digital Ethics course starts May 15!

📅 9 sessions on ethical tech, policy, design, decision making & more
📍 Online or in Leuven
🕕 18:00–21:30 CET
💸 €1600 (20% off for NGOs/individuals)
🔗 Info & register: lnkd.in/e34zzsKk

#DigiSoc #DigitalEthics #KULeuven
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May 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🎨 Join us for the Dynamic Visual Identities workshop by Catarina Lélis on May 8 (11:00–13:00) at KU Leuven!

Explore how logos can act as smart tools for user interaction & service design

📍 Agora (M00.E67)
🎟️ Free registration: shorturl.at/2g3vS

#HCI #DigiSoc #KULeuven #DesignThinking

📸 mos design
May 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🎮 Join us on April 22 (14:00–15:00 CET) for a talk by @lectio-institute.bsky.social -DigiSoc Fellow Julien Régibeau: History as Aesthetic: Exploring Key Themes in Historical Game Studies.

📍 MSI1 02.08, KU Leuven
💻 For Registration: bit.ly/4cGpDQn

#GameStudies

📸: Age of Empires III (Microsoft)
April 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Yes. So I've baked a whole analytics assignment into my syllabus this Fall #EdShift https://aleszu.github.io/digisoc/#assignments https://twitter.com/kristine_ish/status/902943990424752130
November 26, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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❓Did you know personalisation and bias are two sides of the same coin? 🪙 Sofie Goethals and Manon Reusens explain this in our first blog post after the summer break.
Read it here: www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog...
September 22, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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📢 New blog post!
Real world data is increasingly used in the process of market authorization of medical products. In this blog post, Kaat Van Delm assesses whether EU regulation accurately addresses the risks that come with this evolution.
👉 Read it here: www.kuleuven.be/digisoc/blog...
April 14, 2026 at 6:41 AM