• Submission deadline: July 15, 2025
• Notification: September 15, 2025
• Final Versions Due: September 30, 2025

Aims and Scope

Technology and digitization profoundly shape the world we live in, and the stakes are high. This call invites papers that explore the complex interplay of technology and humankind, understanding the fundamental changes, examining the new opportunities enabled by technological advances as well as the tremendous risks inherent to digitization, and envisaging the prospects for a better life in the digitized era. Issues addressed by the conference program will revolve around digitalization and its entanglement with contemporary social, political, economic, and cultural developments – from algorithmic governance and regulation through the role of AI in popular culture to the ever-increasing permeation of our lives with digital devices. 

The recent rise of AI has triggered a heightened awareness of the far-reaching impact of digitization on our lives, which ranges from numerous beneficial uses to worrisome concerns for open democratic societies and the lives of their citizens. Technological change is expanding the boundaries of what is possible. There are strong reasons to be concerned about the enormous concentration of power, resources, and prioritization of future AI R&D directions in the hands of very few players.

We define Digital Humanism as an approach that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights.

Addressing these challenges requires interdisciplinary collaboration between a whole range of domains from computer science to humanities. We invite contributions that explore all scientific aspects at the complex interplay of humans and machines in the digitized age. Different research methodologies and approaches are welcome.

Topics

The following topics based on the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism offer an illustrative, though certainly not exhaustive list of possible fields to be addressed:

• Philosophical reflections on digitalization
• Governance, regulation, control, and security of AI
• Digital technologies and their impact on democracy and inclusion
• Privacy and freedom of speech in the digital arena
• Rules and laws, effective regulations for technological development
• Accountability, fairness, and transparency of software and algorithms
• The role of tech monopolies, market competitiveness and anti-trust
• Internet governance and digital sovereignty
• Automated and human decision making
• Participatory approaches and collective decision-making, computational social choice
• New systems design
• Cross-disciplinary approaches to technological questions, especially collaborations between computer science / informatics and social sciences and the humanities
• New educational curricula, combining knowledge from the humanities, the social sciences, and engineering studies
• Researchers and practitioners and their shared responsibility for the impact of information technologies
• Human-centered AI, human-AI interaction, and human-AI teaming
• Ethical models/frameworks around AI and data, handling of bias
• Environmental costs and climate impacts of digitization/AI

All contributions are welcome that address these topics – from computer science, AI research, social sciences, law as well as the humanities.

Submissions

DIGHUM-RES welcomes submissions of long papers (15 pages) or short papers (6 pages) of all types, including:

• Empirical, conceptual, or theoretical
• Technical or system descriptions
• Position papers

Paper submission is enabled via the DIGHUM-RES easy-chair site: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=dighumres25.

Submission guidelines: https://caiml.org/dighum/dighum-res/submission

Conference Program Chairs

• Ludger Hagedorn (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna)
• Ute Schmid (University of Bamberg)
• Susan J. Winter (University of Maryland)
• Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology)

Program committee: https://caiml.org/dighum/dighum-res/committees