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A new paper from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) published in the Telecommunications Policy journal has found that at least two types of barriers are of significant importance for understanding engagement of internet non-user in proxy internet use.

On 3rd and 4th of July the fifth of nine Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation (EEPE) events took place in Stuttgart, Germany (state Baden-Württemberg). EEPE was attended by Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), and three representatives of the stakeholders – Amalija Šiftar from Slovene Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, Mateja Nagode from Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, and Dalibor Gavrić from Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia.

University of Ljubljana is a project partner in the new project COOP4HEALTHCARE (Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions) which was launched on May 1st. Project is funded by the Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria. Head of the project at the University of Ljubljana is member of the Centre for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vesna Dolničar, PhD.

On 5th of June the Co-design and ecosystems seminar of the ITHACA project took place in Krakow (Poland). The seminar was attended by Vesna Dolničar and Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), and five representatives of the stakeholders.

On Wednesday, June 6 2018, a conference “Hate speech from the perspective of law enforcement and social networks” was organised by Spletno oko hotline at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The lecturers described procedures and existing dilemmas in moderating and prosecuting the hate speech online.

In the end of May French non-governmental organisation LICRA hosted the kick-off meeting of the "sCAN - Platforms, Experts, Tools: Specialised Cyber-Activists Network" project. The Slovenian representative among ten project partners is University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics.

Member of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, participated in the 18th International Conference on Integrated Care “Value for People and Populations: Investing in Integrated Care”, which was held May 23–25 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

From 21-23 May 2018 the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) hosted dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf from Department of Media and Information and Quello Center, Michigan State University. Dr. Reisdorf is one of the most promising young researchers in the field of new technologies and society, focusing primarily on research into digital inequalities. Her articles have been published in leading scientific journals such as New Media & Society and Information, Communication & Society.

iha Matjašič, Vasja Vehovar, PhD and Katja Lozar Manfreda, PhD members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI) at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, published an article entitled »Web Survey Paradata on Response Time Outliers: A Systematic Literature Review« in the scientific journal Metodološki zvezki.

You are invited to a guest lecture on the social implications of search engines for political opinion formation by dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf (Department of Media and Information and Quello Center, Michigan State University). The lecture is part of the Internet in Everyday Life course and will take place on Wednesday, 23rd May 2018, from 8.30 am to 10.00 am at the FDV-13 lecture room.