Dear colleagues, 

We are hosting the 2025 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium this year at my lab PGMT in Bremen, Germany. Please take note of the short deadline for abstract submissions (February 15, that is this Saturday!) – and the great line-up of plenary speakers (Natali Helberger, Tarleton Gillespie, Sarah T. Roberts, Thomas Poell). 

**From Platform Governance to Generative AI:Concepts, Methods, and Data for

Studying Tech Governance**

2025 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium, 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, Germany

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT), University of Bremen

**Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025**

Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Natali Helberger, Sarah T. Roberts, Thomas Poell

Call for Papers (short): The study of platform governance and generative AI has become increasingly

critical as these technologies significantly (re)shape public discourse,

societal norms, and policy-making processes. By determining how information

is created, shared, and consumed, these technological systems raise complex

questions of accountability, fairness, transparency, contestability, and

ethics. After 20 years of social media these challenges remain topical, and

both current political developments as well as the advent of generative AI

will exacerbate rather than relieve those challenges. The AoIR Flashpoint

Symposium 2025 in Bremen aims to contribute to these urgent discussions on

governance and normative questions.

Submissions for research papers or policy/position papers, or for

pre-curated panels, will take the form of 400-600 word abstracts. *The

submission deadline is 15 February 2025.*

The complete Call for Papers, more information on the symposium and the

link for submissions are available here:

Inquiries can be sent to aoir2025@uni-bremen.de.

The Symposium organisers are Prof. Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Dr. Daria

Dergacheva, and Dr. Dennis Redeker.

It would be great to see some NOC colleagues with us in Bremen!

Best,

Christian Katzenbach