Year: 2021

The research of the department focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the extensive and fundamental datafication and algorithmization of man-made phenomena that constitute our social coexistence and our cultures (conditio humana). Thus, it will focus on objects of various forms and materiali...

Only in German language. Mit 2 Beiträgen: Daten, Algorithmen und die Conditio Humana: Das neue Department DHSS zeigt, wie das zusammengehört. Samstag, 23. Oktober 2021 um 17:30 Uhr. Digital Humanities. Keynote. Samstag, 23. Oktober 2021 um 18:00 Uhr.   Zum Programm und zu den Z...

Humangeography Summer School 2021   Humangeography Summer School 2021 Digital Geographies Digital space productions and space productions of the digital September 26 - October 1, 2021 (online from Erlangen) Recent social and cultural geography asks how social spaces ar...

Technologies are not neutral, but promote certain values and hinder others. This also applies to technologies developed and used in the digital humanities. Therefore, these technologies require ethical investigation and classification. The approach of Value Sensitive Design allows on the one hand to...

We were there 1: Yesterday, a fruitful onlineconference #Net Literary Studies (Curator: Thomas Ernst, Universiteit Antwerpen & Universiteit Amsterdam) as part of the vDHd2021 came to an end. The focus was on questions around the change of production, distribution and reception of literary ...

New modular courses of study at FAU offer insights into various subjects After leaving school, many high school graduates are faced with the choice: study or not? And if so, what? Anyone who would like to study, but is still undecided about the course of study, can study at FAU for one or two semes...

The Department welcomes all first semester students in the winter semester 2021/22 To get off to a good start in your bachelor's and master's studies, an information session will be offered at 4:00 p.m. on October 11.  

The "Studies" section is now available on the homepage of the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies: Redirects have been set up from the previous pages on the IZdigital homepage, so all previously used links remain functional.

The two HTA departments "Digital Humanities and Social Studies" and "Data Science" were successful with their concept "STEM et HUMANITIES at FAU. G'scheid g'machd hält länger!" in the "Smart Qualifiziert: MINTplus - plusMINT" program of the Stifterverband and the Daimler Fund. Interdisciplinary w...

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz's dissertation is now published by Nomos: "Focusing on reader benefit, digital reading media offer a rich set of features compared to print products, such as search, bookmark and annotation management, social reading, etc. Nevertheless, many digital text offerings violate w...