AI and Political Communication

WASP-HS Principal Investigator Carl Öhman, Uppsala University, reflects on his project AI and Political Communication and WASP-HS. In short, please introduce your project The goal of our project is to improve the current understanding of how AI and...

FinTech and Its Accountability

Ensieh Mahi, a PhD Student at the Business Studies Department, Uppsala University, outlines the roundtable “Accountability In (and of) FinTech“ at the WASP-HS FinTech Community Reference Meeting held on October 5th, 2021. At the beginning of the meeting in the main...

Reflections: Soma Design as Existential Media

WASP-HS PhD Student Maria Rogg looks back on her experiences of attending the WASP-HS Graduate School course Soma Design. I meet the Soma Design cohort at the central station, released as everything I had planned to finish before starting the course had worked out: I...

The Potential of Agent-Based Social Simulation

WASP-HS Principal Investigator Fabian Lorig, Malmö University, reflects on his project Realizing the Potential of Agent-Based Social Simulation and WASP-HS. In short, please introduce your project. Computer simulation is used to observe and investigate the behavior of...

FinTech With “The Right Values”

Amanda Lindkvist, Research Assistant at the Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, reports about the roundtable “The good and the bad of FinTech: when and for whom is it helpful and when and for whom is it detrimental?” at the...

Experimenting with Trust

Jonas Ivarsson, Principal Investigator of the WASP-HS project Professional Trust and Autonomous Systems reports on a conception of, and experiments with, trust. Just as we got ready to start with our new research project, the pandemic hit, and the possibilities of...