Publication podcasts

To promote the accessibility of our research, we have adopted a new medium: the podcast. This podcast series has a twofold aim. It shall make our research publicly accessible and it shall work as a didactic tool. Research articles are often hardly accessible for the public, because they are either published in an outlet that is not publicly available or the articles are rather long and written in scientific jargon. However, there is always a message or a point of view in those articles, making a difference and being worth recognized beyond the community of academic pears. 

Podcasts are also a didactic tool. They give students a first impression about a research question and why the research might be important. Thereby, the coupling of the podcast to an already published research article makes it possible to check the arguments and to go deeper into the scientific matter. 

This podcast series is dedicated to digital governance. Digital governance is broadly understood as the legal and institutional rules which provide the framework in which digitalization unfolds. The podcasts will be centered around the research done by our DIGOV fellows. We will publish a series of podcasts, which are made using the AI tool Notebook LM. Each podcast will discuss a different article or book chapter, all within the broad framework of digital governance.  

The podcast series starts with fundamental reflections about responsibility of AI agents. Who is liable when AI is involved in an accident? Can history help us to better understand how AI regulations should be employed? Or, what can moral philosophy tell law? Moreover, a podcast about science communication is presented, which addresses the question of how digital media impacts the communication of scientists.