At the height of conference season, the AI Media and Democracy Lab was well represented at international conferences these past months. From Berlin to Denver and Athens to Warsaw, our researchers shared newest insights from collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. Take a peek at the various presentations, panels, and workshops our researchers hosted and contributed to. Want to know more? Reach out to our researchers for details and information.

ICA 2025: International Communication Association Conference
Denver, USA
- One Size Fits Some: How Journalistic Roles Shape the Adoption of Generative AI
- “Reviving the Balance Norm?” Navigating Tensions Between Climate Advocacy Journalism and Objectivity
- Dangerous Criminals and Beautiful Prostitutes? Investigating Harmful Representations in Dutch Large Language Models
- Countering AI-Generated Visual Misinformation: The Effects of Fact-Checking Labels, AI-Labels, and Contextual Interventions
- The MSCQ-Model: How Modality, Sophistication, Content and Quality Shape Cognitive Deception Through Visual Disinformation

AIOR 2025: Association of Internet Researchers Symposium
Bremen, Germany
- Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?
- When Authenticity Matters: Toward Understanding the Epistemic and Democratic Risks of Generative AI

ACM FAccT 2025: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Athens, Greece
- The Hidden Tensions of AI Transformation: Greeceās Data Infrastructures as a Site of Contestation of EU Digital Sovereignty and Local Interests
- Dangerous Criminals and Beautiful Prostitutes? Investigating Harmful Representations in Dutch Large Language Models

2025 Weizenbaum Conference
Berlin, Germany
- Are we, citizens, ready for an AI Democracy?

CHIWORK 2025: Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work
Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Communicating Through Avatars in Industry 5.0: A Focus Group Study on Human-Robot Collaboration
Abdallah El Ali and Karthikeya Venkatraj
- Demonstrating Dark Haptics Scenarios for Future XR Advertising

The World Media Economics and Management Conference 2025
Warsaw, Poland
- Developing Future-Proof Digital Media Governance: Preventing Power Concentration, Protecting Public Interest, and Supporting Local Journalism
