Videos

OII/TUM Heilbronn series on AI & Work: From the Classroom to the Workplace – AI Technologies and the Changing Face of Education

With Dr Lulu P. Shi, Prof Stephan Krusche, Dr Fabian Stephany, and Professor Helmut Krcmar

As AI transforms the world of work, it has also emerged as a powerful force for change within the field of education, with the capacity to personalize learning experiences, cater to diverse student needs, and enhance overall educational outcomes.

Gig Capital: Mapping finance and investment in digital platforms

With Prof Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda

This paper explores an often neglected dimension in the geographies of the gig economy, the role of finance and capital in the shaping of digital platforms.

Can Computers Create Art?

With Aaron Hertzmann

Can AI algorithms make art, and be considered artists?

The Role of Skills in Times of AI

With Dr Fabian Stephany

Watch Dr Fabian Stephany deliver his talk 'The Role of Skills in Times of AI' at the 2023 Economics of AI Conference.

Superpower Skills – The Role of Skills in Times of Technological Change

With Dr Fabian Stephany

Watch Dr Fabian Stephany deliver his keynote speech, 'Superpower Skills - The Role of Skills in Times of Technological Change' at the Schaffarei Conference, in Feldkirch, Austria.

The Effect of the Typicality of Lyrics on Song Popularity

With Prof Danilo C. Dantas

Prof Dantas investigates the relationship between song popularity and the typicality of their lyrics in relation to a given canon

The Flexibility Paradox: Why flexible working leads to more work and what we should do about it

With Prof Heejung Chung

Does flexible working really provide a better work-life balance, enhance worker’s well-being and gender equality?

Structure & Function in Modern Society: On the Power of Social Anthropology in a Big Data World

With Dr Kate Sieck

This talk invites us to return to the vision that inspired Social Anthropology, and re-consider the possibilities within theory for transforming data into useful, nuanced information.

How older audiences are erased, distorted and misunderstood in social & search, and the ethics of using AI to address representation gaps in advertising

With Stuart Bowden, and Aleksandra Grabowska

Whilst 92% of GenX are on social platforms daily they are the subject of less than 5% of platform research

Digital Divides? Divergent Effects of Broadband Internet Expansion on Adolescent Educational Outcomes

With Prof Pablo Gracia

The expansion of internet is likely to influence adolescents’ educational outcomes through various mechanisms. Yet, how internet coverage expansion impacts student educational performance remains poorly understood.

OII Halloween Lecture, Illuminating the Illuminated: Uncovering Patterns in Indecipherable Books – The Voynich Manuscript

With Dr Joss Wright

In this lecture, we will examine some of the history surrounding the Voynich, and apply statistical tools to explore some of its characterics. A hoax? Or an unfathomable repository of ancient wisdom?

Whatever works: digital ethnography as a flat methodology

With Dr John Postill

Dr Postill argues for the versatility of digital ethnography as a ‘flat methodology’ that need not elevate any one method, not even participant observation.