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From studying platforms to founding one: Moritz Maier is a doctoral graduate of our DFG RTG 2720 @passaudpe.bsky.social. Here, he explains how his view of #DigitalPlatforms changed and why he is now taking the leap into entrepreneurship 👉 www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/beitraege... #PassauDPE
New paper by Robert Forkel and myself in #JOHD just appeared:
Extending CLDF -- Towards a Type System for Cross-Linguistic Data
doi.org/10.5334/johd...
New preprint www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
‘State of Emergency’ and Configuration of Penal Justice in Terms of Repression and Ideology: Munich Special Court (1933-45) and Its Computational Historical Resumption
#digitalhumanities #ns #lawhistory #rechtsgeschichte
TaCT-FoRSED brought game-based learning to @unipassauresearch.bsky.social ! 🎮 40 students + 7 teachers explored disinformation with Headline Hunter, spotting AI made headlines.
Interested?
Find out more here: tact-forsed.eu/2026/06/12/w...
#MediaLiteracy #GameBasedLearning #ConspiracyTheories
Forschende unserer Universität und vom JFF - Institut für Medienpädagogik untersuchen im Forschungsverbund #ForGeRex, wie rechtsextreme Akteure Internet-Memes gezielt in der politischen Kommunikation nutzen. 👇
scilogs.spektrum.de/rechtsextrem...
Die Forschung im Verbund #ForGeRex zeigt: Die AfD nimmt in Bayern im Feld der extremen Rechten eine zentrale Rolle ein. Eine neue Artikelserie, an der auch Forschende unserer Universität beteiligt waren, gibt Einblicke in inhaltliche und personelle Verstrickungen:
#Rechtsextremismusforschung
A team led by data scientist Professor
@mgrani.bsky.social from our university is developing a Europe-wide infrastructure to combat #disinformation campaigns on the web as part of the new BMFTR collaborative project SOURCE. 👉 www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/project-d...
From Passau, the tropics seem very far away. But in February, the 9th European Conference of #Tropical #Ecology #ECTE2026 was hostet at our university! Here is a wrap-up of some of the inspiring talks 👇
@soctropecol.bsky.social @rob-marchant.bsky.social
From CEOs to sex workers: Anastasiya Shylina, a graduate of the @dfg.de RTG 2720 @passaudpe.bsky.social, explores in her doctoral thesis who really shapes digital platforms. In the video, she taks about her research journey.
Find out more: www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/beitraege...
#PassauDPE
Internet-Memes haben sich zu einem wirkungsvollen Instrument rechtsextremer Einflussnahme entwickelt.
scilogs.spektrum.de
Teil 1 einer Serie zur Zentralität der AfD in der bayerischen extremen Rechten Ausgehend von einer Akteursanalyse im Zuge des ForGeRex-Teilprojekts 9 „Antisemitismus und Krisen“ verdichtet sich eine z...
Researchers from around the world presented their latest findings in the field of tropical ecology at the 9th European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Passau – and remained optimistic despite the gl...
Constructing datasets on past biodiversity from historical sources is crucial for understanding long-term ecological changes. Typically, compiling such datasets relies on prior knowledge of the source...
