About the project

The reality we are currently experiencing is increasingly ‘mediated’ – by social media, smartphones, AI, and the like.

Project background

The reality we are currently experiencing is increasingly ‘mediated’ – by social media, smartphones, AI, and the like. These technologies make the world increasingly interconnected, but they also profoundly change how we perceive, think, feel, and decide.

The MEDIS:ON (Mediated Society) project was created in response to this dramatic change and the need to understand its profound impact on individuals and societies.

Main goals

The primary aim of the MEDIS:ON project is to further and deepen our understanding of how we work with information on an individual, social, and societal level. We want to achieve this through a unique interdisciplinary collaboration between social and technical sciences: psychology, political science, theology, pedagogy, computer sciences, electrical engineering, and neurosciences.

Key contributions to the society

Orientation in the digital world

Defense against disinformation, and radicalization

The development of AI literacy and ethics

Innovation in diagnosis and research

Promotion of anti-cyberbullying norms

Research plans

Cognitive and affective processes

This direction of research focuses on how the digital environment changes our basic psychic processes such as memory, perception, attention, decision-making, learning, emotions, and language.

Religiosity and spirituality in the context of spread of conspiration theories in a mediated society

Within this area, we investigate the role of religiosity and spirituality in the spread of conspiration theories in digital space.

Knowledge and norms in a mediated society

In this research direction, we analyse the influence of AI on the spread of knowledge and explore ways of combating hoaxes and cyberbullying in the educational environment.

Psychometric models as instruments of studying mental processes and states

This area focuses on innovations in psychodiagnostics based on advanced technologies and AI.

Consumers and spreaders of disinformation: Their political and psychological characteristics

This section focuses on understanding radical identifies and the development of communication strategies for deradicalisation. Its aim is to boost the resilience of democratic societies against disinformation and polarisation, especially in a time of ‘poly-crisis’.