Digitization as disruption of knowledge systems: Open(ing) Knowledge (DiaDisK)
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

Inhaber der Professur
NameProf. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker
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Professor
NameMr Prof. Dr. Alexander Lasch
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherbaum
M.Sc. Cognitive Science
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Professur für Methoden der Psychologie und kognitive Modellierung
Professur für Methoden der Psychologie und kognitive Modellierung
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