Trust and Distrust in the Digital Society (Part I)

Friday, 11 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE036 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG10 Digital Sociology (host committee)

Language: English

This session aims to discuss aspects related to the creation, management and understandings of trust and distrust in the Digital Society. The underlying assumption is that the digital transformation of everyday life provoked a renovation of the understanding of trust and distrust, and this session wants to gather the sociological discussion regarding the validity of the current definitions of trust and distrust when applied to the implementation of current data-driven technologies.

This discussion is relevant and timely, not only given the renewed interest in finding the touchpoints between dis/trust and digital-related issues but also to provide a room for discussion of different approaches to the topic by different sociological theoretical families and to explore practical research conducted in the topic.

Session Organizer:
David DUENAS-CID, Kozminski University, Poland
Co-Chair:
Mahmudul HASAN LASKAR, University of Science and technology Meghalaya, India, India
Oral Presentations
The Impact of Internet Use on Social Trust in China: An Institutional Perspective in the Digital Era
Junru CHEN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Impact of Digitalization and Trust on Non-Voting Behavior from European Comparative Perspective
Rumiana STOILOVA; Martin KONSTANTINOV, Bulgaria
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Institutional Trust: Promise or Peril?
Ginevra PRELLE, Italy
How Institutions Shape Social Trust in AI
Sulfikar AMIR, Singapore
The Distrustful Digital Citizen: How the Digitalisation of Government Has Failed to Address the Crisis of Confidence in Public Institutions
Paolo GERBAUDO, Industries Department, United Kingdom
Distributed Papers
Social Implications of Digitalization of Professional and Private Life in Poland: Between Convenience and Trust
Piotr BINDER, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Michal KOTNAROWSKI, Poland
Post-Truth in the Security Field: What Impact?
Khalid AIT HADI, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco; Mohamed BENDAHAN, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco
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