📣 Our four World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports are now available also in English: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
➡️ Learn more about digital divides, generative AI use, convergent technologies, and digital everyday religion 👩💻🤖
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Congratulations to our team member Daniela Jaramillo-Dent @danijaradent.bsky.social for winning the Best Seminar Award at @ikmz.bsky.social for her spring semester course on content creators and social media ecosystems. Very well deserved! 🙌
➡️ mediachange.ch/news/188
📱 The use of digital services is increasing in Switzerland, with instant messaging use rising to 96% in 2025.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
#WIP2025 #Switzerland #Schweiz #AI #internet
📱😌 Internet use is becoming an everyday religion: 34% of 14-19-year-olds report that the use of digital services gives them peace of mind.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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👁️ In Switzerland, 82% of internet users self-inhibit their information seeking due to feeling surveilled.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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Skepticism prevails regarding cyborg technologies: a majority of Swiss internet users fear cybercrime (78%) and privacy violations (67%).
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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⌛ About half of Swiss internet users want to reduce their internet use time (49% vs. 2019: 28%).
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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🛍️ The digitalization of everyday life is progressing rapidly: 65% of transactions are cashless, and 39% of products are purchased online.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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🤖 In Switzerland, 45% of 20- to 29-year-olds feel very comfortable using generative AI, compared to 20% of those aged 70 and older.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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Some of our latest findings on generative AI and cyborg technologies from our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports are discussed (in German) in the Tages-Anzeiger. Read more here 👉 www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz-so-n...
🌐 In 2025, people in Switzerland spend an average of 5.7 hours online per day, rising to 8.4 hours among people aged 20 to 29.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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🧑⚖️ In Switzerland, 42% of AI users call for stricter artificial intelligence regulation, compared to 61% of AI non-users.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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🧑💻 The share of the Swiss online population that has used generative AI has risen sharply – from 37% in 2023 to 54% in 2024 and 73% in 2025.
📈 Explore all our World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 reports: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
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👩💻 Explore our 4 new reports on AI and internet use, digital divides, trust and concerns, and converging technologies and everyday digital religion: mediachange.ch/research/wip-ch-2025
Generative AI deepens the digital divide in Switzerland and is increasingly becoming part of everyday life. The latest findings of the World Internet Project – Switzerland 2025 are now online 🤖 ✨
➡️ mediachange.ch/news/187
Last week, I participated in the ECREA Audience and Reception Studies mid-year conference in the beautiful Stockholm area. It was a great opportunity and a memorable way to conclude my conference experiences this year!
I had a great time at the @aoir.bsky.social conference in Niterói, Brazil, this week. I am grateful for the opportunity to present our @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social research, supported by @snsf.ch, on how digital communication motives mitigate the chilling effects of dataveillance.
Diese spannenden Veranstaltungen stehen allen Interessierten offen und werden von @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social gemeinsam mit dem Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law organisiert. Die Vorträge finden je nach Titel auf Deutsch oder Englisch statt.
Internationale Expert:innen und Redner:innen vom @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social beleuchten Themen wie religionsähnliche, transhumanistische Verheißungen, Cyborgisierung, Chilling Effects unter Dataveillance, Influencer-Glaubenssysteme und Anthropozentrismus.🤖👩💻
📍Affolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich (Raum AFL-F-121)
🕒 Dienstags, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
➡️ Mehr Infos: mediachange.ch/news/185
📣 Wir laden Sie herzlich zu unserer öffentlichen Vortragsreihe „Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern“ ein. Gastredner:innen geben spannende Einblicke in die aktuelle Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft und in Künstliche Intelligenz.
📝 Pub alert: My first dissertation (and first-author) paper "Triggers of a Sense of Dataveillance: Empirical Insights Into Characteristics and Determinants" is out in @emergingmedia.bsky.social
👉 Find it here: lnkd.in/e-xeJQGD
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📣 New open-access paper from @ikmzmediachange.bsky.social available! We investigated young adults’ dataveillance imaginaries, sense of dataveillance, and behavioral responses on YouTube. 👉 publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article...
Had the pleasure of presenting and discussing our mixed-methods study providing causal evidence of chilling effects of dataveillance in Switzerland at #ica25 in #Denver.
Thanks for having us and for the lively discussion!
@ikmzmediachange.bsky.social @moritzbuchi.bsky.social
This research derives from two @snsf.ch funded projects "The Chilling Effects of Dataveillance" and "The significance of algorithmic selection in everyday life" as well as the World Internet Project (www.mediachange.ch/research/)
This research derives from the @snsf.ch funded project "The Chilling Effects of Dataveillance" (www.mediachange.ch/research/)
We warmly congratulate our team members Sarah Daoust-Braun @sarahdaoustbraun.bsky.social and Noemi Festic for winning the 2025 Saxer Award for Best Presentation at the #SGKM Annual Conference for their work on how motives for digital communication mitigate the chilling effects of dataveillance! 👏
Congratulations to our former colleague Kiran Kappeler kirankappeler.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 Dissertation Award at the sgkm.bsky.social Annual Conference for her outstanding dissertation on “Negotiating Digital Technology Use in the Highly Digitized Swiss Society.” Well deserved! 🙌
✨School voor Sociale Wetenschappen van Universiteit Hasselt werft (open rank) professor Media Studies/Communicatiewetenschappen & Digitalisering aan❗
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