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The internet safety awareness centre Safe.si participated in the Mental Health Festival 2023, organized by the National Institute of Public Health as part of the MIRA program.

The Centre for Social Informatic cordially invites everyone interested to an event about the impact of digital disparities featuring distinguished international scholars from the fields of digital inequalities research, internet studies and social informatics.

The Faculty of Social Sciences hosted Dr. Michael Bošnjak, Professor of Psychological Research Methods at the University of Trier, who has been collaborating with the Centre for Social Informatics for several years.

Qualitative research was carried out in four countries between May and August 2022 with four different groups of participants; parents, teachers, young girls, teenagers and students, and professionals working with women victims of violence.

InnoRenew CoE are seeking a project manager to coordinate researchers.

Pedro Manuel Martinez Monje, PhD and senior lecturer at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) in Spain, completed a stay at the Centre for Social Informatics.

During Safer Internet Day 2023, which was celebrated on February 7th, the Safe.si Internet Safety Awareness Point, which is part of the Centre for Social Informatics, drew attention to the problem of inappropriate online content that has a negative impact on adolescents.

In the article, the authors Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Gregor Čehovin, PhD, members of the Centre for Social Informatics, review evaluations of nonprobability online panels, illustrate typical problems encountered, and present guidelines for deciding whether to use them.

In their new scholarly paper, Iztok Šori, PhD (The Peace Institute) and Vasja Vehovar, PhD (Centre for Social Informatics) draw attention to the proliferation of hate speech that threatens the health of democracy and media systems in contemporary societies.

Kaja Smole Orehek, a member of Centre for Social Informatics, successfully completed doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the young researcher training financed by Slovenian Research Agency.