Andreas Fickers

Historian interested in digital history & hermeneutics, transnational media history, experimental media archaeology, and European history of technology.

[thomas cauvin @thomascauvin]

JOB 🚨🚨 Join us at the University of Luxembourg. Deadline for application 15/1/2025 https://t.co/XHGCUI2uY5 #DH #DigitalHumanities #Academia #DigitalHistory

[Impresso project @ImpressoProject]

Help us spread the word: #CfP for the first Impresso conference! "#Transmedia History: Circulations, Reconfigurations and New Methodologies" on 27 and 28 January 2025 in Lausanne @unil - the submission deadline is 15.7. and all infos are here: https://t.co/RmQOXIMVEL

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

🔥Now in press at @PNASNexus 🔥

We provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of generative AI’s potential impacts on (mis)information and three information-intensive domains: work, education, and healthcare.

Our goal is to highlight how generative AI could worsen existing inequalities while illuminating how AI may help mitigate pervasive social problems.

In each section, we cover a specific topic, evaluate existing research, identify critical gaps, and recommend research directions.

We pose 72 specific research questions that could significantly advance the field. Each question is non-trivial, and we discuss explicit trade-offs complicating the derivation of a priori hypotheses. See tables 1-4 in the paper and S1-S4 in the SI.

We conclude with a section highlighting the role of policymaking in maximizing generative AI’s potential to reduce inequalities while mitigating its harmful effects.

We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of existing policy frameworks in the European Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom, noting that each fails to fully address the socioeconomic challenges we have identified.

We propose several concrete policies that could promote shared prosperity through the advancement of generative AI. See table 5 in the paper.

We hope that this work contributes to a comprehensive research agenda and public debates on these critical topics.

Full paper: https://t.co/njlyuLNwJR

This article would not have been possible without the collaboration of an amazing, multidisciplinary group of authors. Immense thanks to everyone involved!

@AustinLentsch @DAcemogluMIT @SelinAkgun9 Aisel Akhmedova @EBilancini @JFBonnefon @BehSnaps @lu_butera @Karen_Douglas Jim Everett Gerd Gigerenzer @chrisgreenhow @Laparoscopes @PCASOLab @jholtlunstad @jetten_j @baselinescene @werkunz @longoni_chiara Pete Lunn @simone_natale Stefanie Paluch @iyadrahwan Neil Selwyn Vivek Singh @ssuri Jennifer Sutcliffe @JoePTomlinson @Sander_vdLinden @PaulvanLange @FriederikeWall @jayvanbavel Riccardo Viale

[thomas cauvin @thomascauvin]

Registration (free) for attending the 2024 World Conference of Public History (with @pubhisint) is now open. Thanks for sharing. https://t.co/SANI5QWq3N

[DH Benelux @DHBenelux]

🔔 In case you missed it, we have officially opened the registration for #DHBenelux2024! Secure your spot before registration closes on 13 May. More details on how to register on our website 👇https://t.co/PN0VJBbBY1

[thomas cauvin @thomascauvin]

When A. Gandanger discusses history and/in comics with @a_fickers, it ends up in...... a digital comic: https://t.co/FkRH67ugJg
#Comics #History @devhist @Histoirepublik

[Andreas Fickers @a_fickers]

@thomascauvin @devhist @Histoirepublik Love it 🙏

[VHD @VHDtweets]

Nur noch eine Woche bis zum Auftakt von #VHDigital 🎉

Alle sind herzlich eingeladen, dabei zu sein, wenn es am 18. April, 17 Uhr, hießt:

Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft - quo vadis?

Wir sind in jedem Fall schon sehr gespannt auf den Vortrag von @a_fickers (@C2DH_LU).

[Jana Keck @janasinakeck]

Our conference starting today @C2DH_LU on a WS by Frédéric Clavert & Elisabeth Guérard on "Embedded epistemic virtue in a multi-layered article" in the Journal of Digital History - the "most innovative and sexy thing" on the horizon of publishing. @GHIWashington @dij_tokyo @chnm

[Susan Aasman @aasmanna]

Interesting new position @univgroningen: Assistant Professor Contemporary History of computing & information culture since 1945 (1.0 FTE)
https://t.co/IEc4VSGmNZ

[Andreas Fickers @a_fickers]

Looking very much forward welcoming Paul Edwards @AVastMachine for a talk on "Technology Eats History: Time and Techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene" at the C2DH on 30th of January https://t.co/I7WVJ82uyn

[Andreas Fickers @a_fickers]

Excited to announce that you can now explore the content of ZOOMLAND. Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities https://t.co/Tvj5vPtXu6 in a video game! Many 🙏 to our great C2DH designers Kirill Mitsurov and Daniele Guido.

[Andreas Fickers @a_fickers]

Neuerscheinung: Grenzerfahrungen – Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens. Band 6 https://t.co/b7wXBpxcsF

[Andreas Fickers @a_fickers]

@ViolaLorella @VUamsterdam Great! Congratulations Lorella.

[thomas cauvin @thomascauvin]

New Master in Digital and Public History at University of Luxembourg opens student applications on February 1, (Start in September 2024). #Master #Graduate #DigitalHistory #PublicHistory See the thread. @C2DH_LU @ncph @PH_Weekly

[Sofia @s_papastamkou]

Check the lesson "From the Shelf to the Web, Exploring Historical Newspapers in the Digital Age", authored by @martenduering and @EstelleSzmidt from @C2DH_LU, now registered on @DARIAHeu Campus https://t.co/H3tIOkJrZ9 (available in English, French, German)

[C2DH_LU @C2DH_LU]

Deadline approaching... Submit your paper before 1 December for this international conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History to be held on 14-16 March at @uni_lu
#digitalhistory #digitalhumanities #cfp
https://t.co/EvAijel2VH

[C2DH_LU @C2DH_LU]

Dive into the world of Gazengel, a new series of digital #comics ! Each monthly episode offers a glimpse into the life of a PhD student from a new angle.
Start the journey here ➡️ https://t.co/U9OtVQcg9y
#ScienceCommunication #academia @uni_lu #publichistory

[C2DH_LU @C2DH_LU]

Mark your calendar for our next History@Play lecture: 👉Beyond Nuremberg: Critical Game Making as Public History Research
👉 by Clarissa J. Ceglio
🗓️22.11.23
📍 Online and on-site
➡️ https://t.co/tVj5AvYsDl
#digitalhistory #historygames #publichistory

[Anita Lucchesi @alucchesi]

📢 Calling all #twitterstorians! In June 2024, let's dive into "Historical Arguments and the Digital" at @C2DH_LU. Together with @CaitlinBurge95, we'll tackle the pivotal "so-what" question of #DH.

📰20-min papers welcome!

+Info #cfp https://t.co/enUkWB8rKL
Deadline: Dec 15