Johanna Grosche // Digital Twins: Infrastructures of Environmental Governance and Decision-Making

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      1. Contact
      2. Doctoral project
      3. Abstract
      4. Curriculum Vitae
      5. Publications
      6. Print interview
      7. Lectures
      8. Further links

Contact

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Research Associate

Name

Johanna Charlotte Grosche

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Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden

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Doctoral project

Working title: Digital Twins: Infrastructures of Environmental Governance and Decision-Making

Subject area: Communication sciences
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Lutz Hagen, Prof. Dr. Orit Halpern

Abstract

This dissertation thesis is concerned with the risks associated with climate change and the resulting need for decision-making, which increasingly seems to call for predictive solutions. In response to environmental risks and sustainability goals, the environment is progressively governed and mediated through digital data infrastructures. Yet communication and media studies are only beginning to examine how such technological systems fundamentally reshape environmental decision-making beyond the analysis of media content or discourse.

This thesis addresses this gap by investigating digital twins as crucial media infrastructures that mediate environmental processes. It examines German urban digital twins as well as the European initiative Destination Earth, and explores what kinds of environmental knowledge and action become thinkable through these systems. It analyzes how municipalities frame digital twins, which environmental problems they seek to address, and how practices of data integration and simulation structure forms of decision-making. Furthermore, the study traces the sociotechnical imaginaries and discourses surrounding these case studies in order to better understand the drivers behind digital twinning, their entanglement with concepts such as resilience, and the ways in which they shape environmental governance and decision-making.

Curriculum Vitae

seit 05/2024 PhD fellow at Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden
2022 – 2024

Research Associate at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM)
2020 - 2022 M.Sc. Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, Lund University
2016 - 2020 B.A. Kommunikationsmanagement, Hochschule Osnabrück

Publications

Pauleweit, K., Koopmann, M., Endrullis, F., & Grosche, J. (2024). ENGAGE Studie: Soziale Innovationen und Beteiligung von Bürger:innen an der lokalen Energiewende in Deutschland. ( https://fis.tu-dresden.de/portal/files/59470828/ENGAGE-Report-Web_neu.pdf)

Grosche, J. (2022). Climate change on TikTok: Investigating the impact of viral videos about climate change on adults [Msc Thesis]. Lund University. (https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9081548)

Print interview

Berliner Impulse; Fünf Fragen an Berliner Macher*innen für den Klimaschutz (https://www.berliner-impulse.de/meldungen/2584-fuenf-fragen-an-berliner-macher-innen-fuer-den-klimaschutz-johanna-grosche)

Lectures

Further links

LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/johanna-grosche-4747bb207

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