The project, which is part of the research network "Disruption and Societal Change" (TUDiSC), investigates the disruptive effects of digitization in the institutions central to the knowledge society: universities, libraries and schools. Using a combination of linguistic and psychological approaches, it examines how the established and monopolistically organized knowledge infrastructural orders in the three fields are transformed into open knowledge systems and how these disruptive and innovative potentials of digitization are constructed and interpreted on a discursive and individual level.

In the context of the virTUos network (virtual learning and teaching at TU Dresden in an open source context), we are experimenting with blended learning formats in the ExDiMed project to teach digital skills in dealing with media and data. Among other things, we are designing programming courses in Python and expanding an existing, successful course for linguists to include students from other humanities disciplines. Interactive modules are planned at Jupyter Lab, in which students acquire digital media skills (e.g. web scraping or machine analysis of large amounts of data) as teaching learners.

The multilingual corpora on soccer linguistics are being developed at the professorship and made accessible to the specialist public. They comprehensively and representatively document the use of written language in the domain of (internet-based) soccer reporting, which is so important in popular culture. Data is also systematically collected on digital fan discourse. Research findings on soccer linguistics based on these resources can be found in a number of publications by Simon Meier-Vieracker and on the blog fussballlinguistik.de.

Ziel ist, die Nachwirkung und Rezeption des Platonischen Werks in der antiken griechischen Literatur vom 3. Jahrhundert v.Chr. bis zu den spätantiken Autoren des Neoplatinismus im 6. Jahrhundert n.Chr. zu erschließen. Dazu sollen neben Testimonien und Zitationen auch Paraphrasen seiner Ideen bei anderen antiken griechischen Autoren aufgefunden und in der Form eines digitalen Thesaurus zusammengestellt werden. Methodisches Ziel des Projektes ist, ein Tool zur Paraphrasenerkennung zu entwickeln. Finanziert von der VW-Stiftung: 2016-2019.

Das textlinguistisch ausgerichtete Projekt nutzt korpuslinguistische Verfahren der maschinellen Auswertung grosser Datenmengen, um eine gesellschaftlich weit verbreitete Alltagspraxis privater Schriftlichkeit in ihren sprachlichen wie kommunikativen Implikationen zu erfassen. In Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf und Dr. Noah Bubenhofer (Uni Zürich), Finanziert von DFG und SNF 2016-2019