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

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
Visiting address:
Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg (BZW), Raum A 315 Zellescher Weg 17
01069 Dresden
Office hours:
- Thursday:
- 14:45 - 15:30
- (in der Vorlesungszeit)
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Employees

René Dutschke
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)
Student Assistant
NameHenry Wehmeyer
Chair of Linguistic and History of German / DiaDisk
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Chair of Applied Linguistics
NameLeander Baumgertel
Student Assistant
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Veranstaltungen
The 12th annual meeting of the network "Discourse - Interdisciplinary" is dedicated to the manifold interconnections of discourse and disruption. It will focus both on discourses in disruption, which address subversive disruptions of discursive orders and constellations, and on discourses of disruption, which address discursive negotiations of disruptive events. The conference, hosted by Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker, will address researchers from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to linguistics, literature, sociology, history, political science, and philosophy, to discuss theoretical issues and empirical analyses of discourses in/about disruption. A keynote address will be given by Prof. Dr. Lars Koch.