Call for abstracts – STS Conference Graz 2022

A new call for abstracts for scientific papers has been issued as part of the 20th Annual STS Conference Graz 2022, entitled “Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies,” to be held in Graz, Austria, May 2-4, 2022. This is a joint Annual Conference of the Science Technology and Society Unit of the Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science of Graz University of Technology, the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) and the Institute for Advanced Studies of Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS). More information about the Conference is available here.   The abstract should not exceed 500 words, and should...

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The first joint paper of the Digit-HeaL research group has been published

The Digital healthcare ethics laboratory (Digit-HeaL) has published a new scientific article entitled “Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Digital Phenotyping as a Future Solution for Present-Day Challenges: A Scoping Review” in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics (IF = 3.525). The article is authored by Ana Tomičić and Anamaria Malešević, who are members of the Digit-HeaL lab research group, and by the head of the lab group, Anto Čartolovni. The paper is available at this link. The article discusses the ethical, legal and social issues of digital phenotyping as a future solution to today’s challenges. Digital phenotyping represents an avenue of...

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Good morning, Croatia – Television guest appearance

On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, Anamaria Malešević and Luka Poslon were featured on Good Morning, Croatia in the Digital Morning broadcast, where they introduced the Digital Health Care Ethics Laboratory (Digit-HeaL): a 7-member interdisciplinary research group funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) and the Catholic University of Croatia (HKS), and led by Assistant Professor Anto Čartolovni. They outlined the primary goal of their research group is to inform the responsible innovation, development and implementation of digital technologies in healthcare. Anamaria and Luka gave a brief overview of the team’s plans for the future. They shared their positive...

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Info(pan)demia – Out of our Reach?

On Thursday, November 11, 2021, the Department of Communication Science at the Catholic University of Croatia organized an online international interdisciplinary scientific conference Reader and Reading in the Digital Age. The conference brought together leading experts from Croatia and abroad – communication scientists, psychologists, neurologists, media literacy experts, rehabilitation educators, teachers of various professions and fields dealing with reading and facing many challenges related to reading – and approach the phenomenon of reading from different starting points. The conference brought together 130 speakers and about 1,000 listeners, with the...

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