Digital transformation – society, science and technological development
Core issues
We explore the digital transformation in society, science, the working environment and everyday life. In interdisciplinary research projects, we determine the effects of digitalization in these areas in order to utilize the potentials of digital transformation and master its challenges. To both critically examine and actively shape the digital transformation, we actively engage in the scientific and social dialogue.
Research questions
How does digitalization shape us, our living and working environment, and corresponding organizational forms and cultures? How can digitalization contribute to the sustainable development of society (cf. SDGs of the UN), in urban as well as in rural areas? Which opportunities for participation emerge from digitalization and what are suitable digital formats? Which technologies provide added value and what could corresponding technologies look like? Which roles can civil society actors play in this process? How can we conceptually describe the digital transformation, empirically assess it and shape it constructively?
Research approaches and methods
Approaches of urban and spatial sociology, environmental and architectural psychology, computer and information sciences (digital maturity models), attitude and acceptance research, technology impact assessment, participation research, evaluation research, media consumption research
Topics
- Digitalization and sustainability: facilitating sustainable behavior through digital media, ecological consequences of digitalization, energy transition and digitalization
- Living and working in the digital society: Changes through digitalization, perception and evaluation of digitalization by users, application fields of digital technologies (artificial intelligence, bots, cryptocurrencies, decentralized autonomous organizations [DAOs]), digitalization and social participation, changes in work and organisational culture (digital leadership, agility), Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities
- Digital transformation: description, opportunities and risks, digital maturity, impact assessment, recommended procedures for society, work and science
- Digital Science: Open Science, MOOCs, Citizen Science, Digitalization of Research, Co-Creation/Co-Design
References
- Projects: MOVING, eScience, Ausbilderakademie.digital, U_CODE, OLGA, STUPS, ReGerecht, weiter.digital, VOM_Handel, Tech4Comp, Gemeinsam in die digitale Welt, DiBBLoK
- Events (symposia, conferences): Conference series „Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien“ (GeNeMe), Time Machine Conference, PROsumer final event, U_Code final event
Publications
- Vagliano, I., Guenther, F., Heinz, M., Apaolaza, A., Bienia, I., Breitfuss, G., Blume, T., Collyda, C., Fessl, A., Gottfried, S., Hasitschka, P., Kellermann, J., Koehler, T., Maas, A., Mezaris, V., Saleh, A., Skulimowski, A., Thalmann, S., Vigo, M., Wertner, A., Wiese, M. & Scherp, A. (2018). Open Innovation in the Big Data Era with the MOVING Platform: An Integrated Working and Training Approach for Data-savvy Information Professionals. IEEE MultiMedia, 25(3).
- Müller, M. & Geißler, P. (2014). Leadership in vernetzten Unternehmen - Anforderungen und Qualifizierungsangebote. KnowTech 2014, Hanau.
- Richter, A; Hetmank, C.; Müller, M.; Klier, J. & Klier, M. (2016). Enterprise Social Networks from a Manager’s Perspective. In: Proceedings 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016), Kauai.
- Hofmann, M., Münster, S., & Noennig, J. R. (2020). A theoretical framework for the evaluation of massive digital participation systems in urban planning. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 4(3), doi: 10/ggd8hh.
- Pscheida, D. D., Minet, C., Herbst, S., Albrecht, D. S., & Köhler, P. D. T. (2015). Nutzung von Social Media und onlinebasierten Anwendungen in der Wissenschaft. URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-163135
- Herbst, S., Minet, C., Pscheida, D., & Albrecht, S. (2014). Von Infrastrukturen zu Möglichkeitsräumen. Erwartungen von WissenschaftlerInnen an Onlineumgebungen für die Wissensarbeit. In K. Rummler (Hrsg.), Lernräume gestalten—Bildungskontexte vielfältig denken (S. 125–135). Waxmann.
- Herbst, S.; Müller, M.; Schulz, S.; Schulze-Achatz, S. (2019): Veränderungen von Bildung durch die Digitalisierung und neue Anforderungen an alle Bildungsbeteiligte, Technische Universität Dresden, URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-336479
- Herbst, S.; Müller, M.; Schulz, S.; Schulze-Achatz, S. (2019): Neue Typen digitaler Angebote – Herausforderungen und Rahmenbedingungen für die Bildungsbereiche, Technische Universität Dresden, URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-336469
- Barczik, K. (2018): Akzeptanz digitaler Medien bei Personen im Ruhestand im ländlichen Raum, Dissertation, URL: https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-350790