Honored to co-host today's fourth International Press Freedom Seminar on combatting SLAPP against journalists (and other public watchdogs) UGent - with, amongst others Eva Lievens Bart Vanhaelewyn Valerie Verdoodt apache/ VVJ Vincent Van Quickenborne

Calling on everyone defending/speaking up for the #climate: Have you ever experienced online intimidation? We urgently need evidence for LienStolle's super interesting and topical research project!! Survey available in English and Dutch - ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7…

Today plenary session in #EUParliament about consumer protection in online video games. Report in English available soon. Exciting times for videogame monetisation researchers. Link: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…. Some key takeaways in light of mine and many others’ research (1/5).

Register now for Think Legal Tech, the launch event for our 4th UGent Legal Techathon. Keynote by zweers, panel with legal tech entrepreneurs Henchman, Contractify, Lawren.io & Unpaid! do.ugent.be/en/events/thin… UGent Recht & Criminologie DO! UGent

An important survey on the intimidation of #EnvironmentalDefenders within the EU (+UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) by LienStolle (Univ of Ghent, Belgium). If you're 18yrs +, an environmental activist, artist, journalist, lawyer...have a look at it by 15Feb!

#CfP: "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Rethinking and Constructing its Future Together" (6-8 December 2023, Ghent). Join our stream on Digital Technologies and Human Rights!! hrrn.ugent.be/conf2023/

No better way to end the week with our last post on the #ECtHR Macatė v🇱🇹 case where the GC found that restricting a book of fairy tales bc of LGBTI content breached A. 10. Ingrida Milkaitė argues that the judgm is convincing & explores its future impact👇strasbourgobservers.com/?p=9122

Wij zijn op zoek naar nieuwsgierige juristen met doctoraatsambities om op het #SolidLab-project te werken, samen met een heleboel collega's uit andere disciplines! Ook master studenten die in juni afstuderen meer dan welkom! Meer info: ugent.be/nl/jobs/oap/do… Deadline 30 juni!

On the 24th of May, we had the honor of setting up a webinar for the World Health Organisation World Health Organization (WHO) and our own stakeholders: "The blurring lines between video #gaming and gambling: An #ecosystem perspective".

Our second focus was on #commercial communication around video gaming and gambling: Eva Grosemans from Inst Media Studies Mintlab (Meaningful Interactions Lab) and Nadia Feci from CiTiP KU Leuven presented their research on #gambling #advertising, videogame #streaming and ad exposure in adolescents

Valerie Verdoodt from UGent led the Q/A session while project's co-supervisor @biekezaman Mintlab (Meaningful Interactions Lab) @KULeuvenDigiSoc wrapped up the webinar with a few key takeaways and numerous questions that we want to address in the second part of the webinar... Stay tuned!

On 8 June we are organising a research seminar 'Children's Voices in Courts, Policy and Research: Exploring Child Participation across Contexts' with Dr. Holly Doel-Mackaway (Holly Doel-Mackaway), WendyDeBondt & Valerie Verdoodt. More information and registration: ugent.be/re/en/children…

Net afgestudeerd met een passie voor data & gegevensbescherming? We zijn nog steeds op zoek naar een nieuwsgierige juristen met doctoraatsambities voor het SolidLab-project over datakluizen. Meer info via ugent.be/nl/jobs/oap/do…. Deadline: 13 juli, startdatum overeen te komen.

Op zoek naar een onderzoeker voor een kort project (okt-dec 2023; halftijds) omtrent gegevensbescherming en intellectuele eigendom. Meer details zijn beschikbaar in het vacaturebericht: jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Onder…

Looking forward to the panel on "Revisiting the (Artificial) Right to Effective Remedy in a Digitized World" with a stellar line-up of speakers at the UGent #HRRN conference at 11 a.m. in the Hubert Van Eyck room!

Our report from the fifth International Press Freedom Seminar on Journalism and AI is out! Dive into discussions on AI in journalism, public trust in news media, and the crucial role of public broadcasters. 🗞️✨ #PressFreedom #AIinJournalism biblio.ugent.be/publication/01…

Ik ben op zoek naar een nieuwe voltijdse assistent! De opdracht bestaat uit onderzoek en onderwijsondersteuning in het domein "Recht & Technologie". Meer info? jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Assis… (deadline 05.03.24)

📢PHD OPPORTUNITY ALERT📢 The Law & Technology research group UGent is looking for a full-time PhD student for a research project on the right to (not) use the internet, starting in early 2025. Apply now! ugent.be/en/work/scient…