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Sibylle Kunz shows how a career can also lead to a professorship via detours, because in her case all the pieces of the puzzle came together only gradually. She is therefore a suitable candidate for the start of the series "Women in Science", which regularly presents a female researcher of the facul...

Within the context of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for 6 Open Topic Full Professorships (W3) for Digital Humanities and Digital Social Studies at the newly ...

Only in German language. Technologien sind nie neutral – auch die nicht, die in den Digital Humanities entwickelt und angewendet werden. Genau das ist der Ausgangspunkt von Value Sensitive Design (VSD): Technologien fördern bestimmte Werte und behindern andere. Daher bedarf das Design technologis...

Within the context of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for 6 Open Topic Full Professorships (W3) for Digital Humanities and Digital Social Studies at the newly ...

Digitale Bilder ermöglichen es uns Kunstwerke virtuell zusammenzubringen, sie zu gruppieren und beliebig zu rearrangieren. Die potentiell sehr komplexen Verbindungen, Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede innerhalb solcher Datensätze können von Computern analysiert werden. Dies macht jedoch ein Verständnis...

Digital technologies trigger an intensifying datafication and enable a growing legibility of individual, social and socio-technical processes. Against this background, questions of access to, ownership and protection of data, that is to say questions of the configuration of data circulations are neg...

The interdisciplinary research project Iconographics is dedicated to innovative possibilities of digital image recognition for the arts and humanities. While computer vision is already often able to identify individual objects or specific artistic styles in images, the project is confronted with...

Our senses are gateways to the past. Although museums are slowly discovering the power of multi-sensory presentations, we lack the scientific standards, tools and data to identify, consolidate, and promote the wide-ranging role of scents and smelling in our cultural heritage. In recent years, Europe...

Only in German language. Im Rahmen der ETI – Emerging Talents Initative der FAU wird in dem Projekt Beyond Ontology – Zwischen Wissensrepräsentation und Interoperabilität der Frage nachgegangen, in wie weit die geisteswissenschaftlichen Konzepte von Rezeption bis Kulturtransfer in den gängigen On...