News Archive

Here you will find information about current and past activities in the project—whether participation in conferences, publications, or networking activities. We will keep you up to date!

Personen sitzen an Tischen, die zu einem U geformt sind. Drei Personen sitzen am offenen Ende des U auf Stühlen. Hinter ihnen ist eine Leinwand mit Namen zu sehen, die die online Teilnehmer*innen am Workshop zeigt.

Workshop - Moralizing in Discourses on Socio-Scientific Problems

With our workshop "Moralizing in Discourses on Social and Scientific Problems," we have ushered in the final third of our project period.

In der linken unteren Ecke ein Ausschnitt eines roten Gesichts vor einem blauen Hintergrund, auf dem helle Schaltkreise zu sehen sind. Das Gesicht blickt nach oben rechts.

Summer School „AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives“

21. - 27.09.2025

Our linguistics team in Heidelberg has designed a summer school in cooperation with the Marsilius Kolleg and the Heidelberg Center for Digital Humanities. Doctoral students and advanced master's students conducting research in AI are invited to explore the topic of AI and (moral) values from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Personen stehen vor MoWiKo Postern und diskutieren angeregt.

MoWiKo at KoKoKom Conference

02. - 04.04.2025

At the KoKoKom conference in early April, we had the opportunity to present and discuss the initial results of our project at the panel discussion "Moralizing in Science Communication."

Senja Post steht vor einem Pult. Sie hält eine Rede und deutet mit der Hand auf die Präsentation hinter ihr.

FORUM Opening

13.02.2025

Prof. Dr. Senja Post gave a keynote speech on the reorientation of the FORUM and also introduced MoWiKo.

Doris Teutsch und Lisa Gaffney MoWiKo EFFEKTE Karlsruhe

MoWiKo at EFFEKTE Tuesday

14.01.2025

How does technological innovation shape our society? This question was at the heart of EFFEKTE’s Science Tuesday on January 14. Among the speakers were Doris Teutsch and Lisa Gaffney, who presented the MoWiKo project.

Maria Becker mit Kopfhörern in einem Ton-Studio

MoWiKo at SWR

25.12.2025

Our project team member and co-PI of the linguistic subproject, Dr. Maria Becker, was a guest at the SWR studio to talk about her research project on moralization in language and its automated investigation. The program was published as an "SWR-Wissen" podcast.

First slide of a presentation entitled “Moralizing in the discourse on artificial intelligence: a discourse strategy for asserting claims to validity in science communication”

Insights into Science Communication

03.12.2024

Janine Dengler, member of the linguistic subproject, presented the results of her master's thesis at the WMK colloquium in Karlsruhe. The thesis is a pilot study on discourse strategy methods in science communication and provides exciting initial insights into this field of research.

Gruppenfoto des Teams, teils in Präsenz, teils in Zoom.

MoWiKo Meeting in Heidelberg

22.11.2024

One year after the start of the project, the entire group met in Heidelberg. Greeted by the first snow of the year and the Christmas market stalls that had already been set up but were still closed, we devoted ourselves to exchanging ideas at the German Studies Seminar.

Eine historische Bibliothek mit Stock und Gemälden an der Decke, Fußboden, Regale und die Bücher sind dunkel gehalten, die Decke hell.

Presentation at Joint PhD Colloquium in Prague

26.07.2024

Janine Dengler and Ekkehard Felder presented MoWiKo's linguistic subproject at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague at the Joint PhD Colloquium.

Ein Seminarraum mit mehreren Personen. Sie stehen vor drei Stellwänden, auf denen Moderationskarten angepinnt sind. Eine Person stellt gerade etwas vor, die anderen hören aufmerksam zu.

Workshop on Interdisciplinary Work

19.07.2024

As the MoWiKo team, we work in a genuinely interdisciplinary manner. Guided by Stefan Götze from the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), we explored how exactly we coordinate our work processes and translate the respective thinking style of one discipline for the other team members.

Lecture at the Heidelberg Research Colloquium

11.06.2024

Doctoral candidate Janine Dengler presented her master's thesis on "Discourse-strategic methods for asserting claims to validity in science communication" at the Heidelberg Research Colloquium.

Networking Meeting at the BMBF

07.05.2024

MoWiKo is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of its science communication research funding guideline. Together with the other projects funded under this guideline, we met for the first time in Berlin on May 7 to discuss content, methods, and preliminary results.

Bunte Spielfiguren auf einer weißen Oberfläche. Die Figuren sind mit schwarzen Strichen auf der Oberfläche teilweise miteinander verbunden.

Dialogue with Communication Scientists at RPTU

April 2024

Our communication scientists met with the Strategic Communication of Uncertainty in Simulation Models (StraKoSim) group at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU).