Epistemic Democracy and Digital Technologies: Legitimacy, Knowledge, and Justice in Contemporary Democracies June 18, 2025 – June 20, 2025 University of Rijeka Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Rijeka Croatia Topic areas: Political Philosophy Epistemology Philosophy of Technology Details: This international conference explores how digital technologies, such as social media, civic tech, and artificial intelligence, reshape the epistemic underpinnings of democratic governance. Organized within the […]
Invited Lecture at Occidental College on Political Emotions and Digital Democracy
In April 2025, Senior Research Assistant Kristina Lekić Barunčić delivered an invited lecture at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Her talk, titled “Autoethnography in the Age of Political Anxiety,” explored the crucial role of political emotions, particularly anxiety, in shaping democratic engagement in contemporary societies. Challenging the notion of politics as a purely rational domain, Lekić Barunčić highlighted how emotions serve not only as reactions […]
First EDDD Workshop: “Democracy, Technology and Knowledge: Epistemic Challenges”
Upcoming Workshop: “Democracy, Technology and Knowledge: Epistemic Challenges” This Friday, April 18th, starting at 10:00 AM, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka (lecture hall F-105) will host the scientific workshop titled “Democracy, Technology and Knowledge: Epistemic Challenges.” The workshop will address key topics related to the impact of digital technologies on democratic processes, with a particular focus on epistemic aspects of democratic […]
Invited Lecture at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
On March 12, 2025, Senior Research Assistant Dr. Kristina Lekić Barunčić delivered an invited lecture at the Institute of European Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France. Her lecture, titled “Public Standards, Social Justice, and Digital Inclusion”, addressed the complex relationship between evaluative public standards, issues of social and epistemic justice, and the challenges of ensuring equitable participation in the digital age. Drawing on current […]
Public Lecture Event “Fake News and Political Manipulation in the Digital Age”
Project Leader Ass. Prof. Ivan Cerovac delivered a lecture titled “Fake News and Political Manipulation in the Digital Age”, held yesterday at the City Hall in Kastav as part of the University of Rijeka’s University for the Third Age program. The event also served as an opportunity to promote the Croatian Science Foundation research project “Epistemic Democracy in the Digital Age” (HRZZ-IP-2024-05-4113), which examines how […]
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT – Ivan Cerovac on The Impact of Digital Technologies on Democratic Processes
EDDD Project Leader Ass. Prof. Ivan Cerovac gave an interview to Novi list about the impact of digital technologies powered by artificial intelligence algorithms on the moral and epistemic qualities of democratic decision-making procedures. You can read the full article in Croatian here.
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT: Ivan Cerovac on Digital Technologies and Their Threat to Democracy
EDDD Project Leader Ass. Prof. Ivan Cerovac, was recently featured in the Pogled supplement of the Croatian daily newspaper Novi list. In the interview, Dr. Cerovac explored some of the most pressing challenges facing modern democratic societies, particularly those brought about by the rapid development and integration of digital technologies powered by artificial intelligence. Dr. Cerovac also used the opportunity to present the team’s new […]
HRZZ Approves Funding for the Research Project “Epistemic Democracy in a Digital Era”
On November 27, 2024, the Board of the Croatian Science Foundation officially approved funding for a competitive three-year research project titled “Epistemic Democracy in a Digital Era”. The project will explore how digital technologies powered by artificial intelligence algorithms influence democratic processes and collective decision-making procedures. It aims to address one of the most urgent challenges of our time: how to preserve the legitimacy and […]