GeNeMe 2025 - AI & HUMANITY: Technology with social responsibility

For over 25 years, the GeNeMe conference series "Communities in New Media" has focused on online communities from the perspective of several disciplines such as computer and data science, media technology, education and business administration and economics, information and administrative science and social and communication science, as well as at their interfaces.

AI & HUMANITY: Technology in social responsibility

In the year 2025, GeNeMe is dedicated to the advancing digitalization
and the associated social responsibility. Artificial intelligence
intelligence (AI) is increasingly changing the way in which people interact
interact, work and organize themselves. These developments raise
fundamental questions: What ethical and social challenges
challenges arise from AI-supported technologies? How can
can digital communities be designed responsibly
to ensure humanity and participation? What political and
regulatory measures are needed to make digital spaces safe
and inclusive?

In particular, the following aspects will be considered:

• AI and social responsibility: ethical challenges and possible solutions for the responsible use of AI in digital communities.
• Digital identity and participation: Impact of digitalization on social roles, identity formation and equal opportunities.
• Technology-enabled governance: AI and algorithms in the moderation and governance of digital communities
• Empathy and humanity in digital spaces: Designing human-centered digital interactions.
• Regulation and policy making: Framework conditions and legal aspects of AI-supported decision-making processes.
• Best practices and case studies: Successful approaches for the responsible use of digital technologies in communities.

Program

The 28th GeNeMe will primarily take place in person with optional online participation. As usual, the conference team is experimenting with innovative formats with the aim of ensuring methodologically beneficial participation.

Registration

Registration is required for participation in the conference and the opening event.

Venue

Protestant University of Applied Sciences Dresden (ehs)
Location: "Atrium am Rosengarten" | Glacisstraße 6-8, 01099 Dresden
(Entrance is located in the inner courtyard of the atrium)

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Pre-conferences

In the run-up to GeNeMe 2025, there will again be various events and workshops this year that approach the topic of online communities from the perspective of several disciplines such as computer science and data science, media technology or education and Business Administration and Economics. The 2025 pre-conferences will take place on September 17 .

The conference language of the pre-conferences is English.

I. Final conference of the Erasmus+ project Game4Change

(09:30-17:00; ehs Dresden, Dürerstr. 25)

Under the motto "GameChangers: Innovating Business Education" we will show how game-based learning and gamification can enrich higher education.

Please note: Registration is required for organizational reasons. If you have not yet registered, please do so as soon as possible to ensure your participation.
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II Workshop: Fostering Competence and Inclusion in VET through Digital Innovation

(13:00-17:15; Location: TU Dresden, Münchner Strasse 1, Dresden)

III ProVEST: Riding towards a sustainable future in VET education - First Public Project Conference

(09:00-12:30; Location: TU Dresden, Münchner Strasse 1, Dresden)