The ViDSS is hosting the first Vienna International Graduate Conference on Social Science on 12 and 13 June 2024. The conference aims to provide a platform for academic exchange for the doctoral candidates from the University of Vienna and beyond. Sessions can be suggested until 30 October 2023.

Suggest a ViDSS International Workshop! ViDSS International Workshops are initiated by students and provide methodological training and international networking opportunities for doctoral candidates in the social sciences at the University of Vienna.

With the Final Year Fund, the ViDSS supports doctoral candidates during the final year of the doctoral studies. ViDSS students can apply for a maximum amount of € 750 for proofreading and printing costs or expenses related to self-organised workshops or conference participation.

Content moderators bear the responsibility of upholding a civil discourse environment within digital platforms. A study conducted by Andrea Stockinger together with Svenja Schäfer and Sophie Lecheler explores the methods content moderators employ to achieve this goal and assesses the involvement of AI-based technological tools in their efforts.

(by Ekaterina Zhelenkova)

The importance of education on the trajectories of human life can hardly be underestimated, although its footprints are not always clear at first sight. It is no easy task to capture all the benefits it offers nor to give due appreciation to the formidable extent to which those benefits go and how they shape the wider ...

Arne Langlet was recently added to the IUCN High Seas Specialist Group. The Group works on building capacity and knowledge, as well as supporting new technologies, for identifying, establishing, managing and monitoring marine protected area networks and wider systems of area-based management tools in the 64% of the ocean beyond national boundaries.

(by Isabella M. Radhuber, Wanda Spahl and Katharina Kieslich)

“I find the discussion of this crisis very intriguing, because it affects so many areas of life, yes? Because everything has to be maneuvered politically, because so many areas of life are affected.” These words of a young woman anticipated the full extent of the crisis ...

(by Pouya Sepehr)

Embarking on a research visit through Circle U. is a unique opportunity that comes with minimal bureaucratic procedures. At the culmination of my four-year tenure as a university assistant and on the brink of completing my PhD, I found myself yearning for fresh inspiration and a conducive environment for writing ...

Together with Anne Reinhardt and Claudia Wilhelm, Sophie Mayen examined how digitisation and the emergence of new media genres affect the way young people spend their leisure time. The Generations X, Y, and Z differ in terms of their media use and in how much leisure time they had at their disposal.

(by Saskia Kaltenbrunner)

A couple of weeks ago, I found myself confronted with an unusual task. Many Austrian schools expect their 7th or 8th grade students (13–15 years old) to complete so-called “Berufspraktische Tage”, where they spend some days at a workplace to gain practical experience. One student decided to visit us ...

Timo Aava, Sophie Minihold and Rasmus Wardemann discuss the thrills and troubles of academic writing and the benefits of peer exchange and support during this – supposedly – lonely task. Learn about the painful step of deleting text and what to do when things just don’t seem to go right at all.

Together with Ulrich Brand, political scientist Gabriel Eyselein discusses the fault lines of the growth-centred EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement as it is currently negotiated. They analyse the history of the negotiations, address the role of China and Russia, and argue for a different kind of trade agreement. (In German)