Digitization as disruption of knowledge systems: Open(ing) Knowledge (DiaDisK)
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This project has now come to an end. The following information is to be understood as an archive.
DiaDisk: The project
DiaDisK asks about the disruptive impacts of digitization in the institutions central to the knowledge society: university, library, and school. To this end, it focuses on institutions localized in Dresden (Open Science@TUD, SLUB, and Universitätsschule). Using a combination of linguistic and psychological approaches, the project investigates how the established and monopolistically organized knowledge-infrastructural regulations in these fields are transformed into open knowledge systems and how the disruptive and innovative potentials of digitization are constructed and interpreted both on a discursive and individual level. By developing and testing an integrative methodology for analyzing disruptive phenomena and their interpretations, which systematically intertwines their cognitive-affective anchors with their discursive-epistemic imprints, the project offers approaches for empirically comprehensively validated change management.
This project is a collaboration with
- Chair for Applied Linguistics
- Chair of Linguistics and History of German Language
- Chair of Psychological Methods and Cognitive Modelling
- Universitätsschule Dresden
- Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
Principal Investigators
© Simon Meier-Vieracker
Chair holder
NameProf. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker
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© Alexander Lasch
Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr. Alexander Lasch
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Postal address:
TUD Dresden University of Technology Institute of German Studies and Media Cultures
D-01062 Dresden
Visitor Adress:
Wiener Straße 48, Room 202
D-01219 Dresden
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Office hours:
- Thursday:
- 13:30 - 14:30
Die Sprechstunde am 23.10.2025 muss leider entfallen. Die Sprechstunde findet in Präsenz oder digital (kurzelinks.de/GLSmeet) statt. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum
M.Sc. Cognitive Science
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Employees
© Falk Zedler
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Diplom-Psychologe
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Research Associate, PhD Student
NameMs Sophia Seemann
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Research Associate
NameUlrike Marie Pfeifer M.A.
Chair of Applied Linguistics / Project DiaDisk
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Student Assistant (SHK/WHK)
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Studentische Hilfskraft
NameMs Sabine Hollmann B.A.
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