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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 t...

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...

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.

From July 29 to 30, the international conference Agency in a datafied society: Communication between and across humans, platforms and machines (in cooperation with the Sociology of Media Communication section of the DGPuK, among others) will take place as an online conference. Keynote speakers are A...

  Date: July 5, 2021. Time: 16:15 - 17:45 (90 min). Venue: online   Wikipedia is not only one of the most used sites on the Internet - it is also the largest online encyclopedia where everyone can participate. However, various groups and topics are underrepresented in Wik...

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 space...

The winning entry in the 2020 Open Research Challenge provides a method to clean up paleontological datasets How did organisms respond to climatic changes in the past? Why did some species survive mass extinctions? There are many unanswered questions in paleontology that can only be answered throug...

The musty smell of a school satchel or the salty air of our first North Sea vacation - smells awaken memories and feelings in us like no other sensory impression. They are the direct gateway to our past. But can they also immerse us in past centuries? Prof. Dr. Peter Bell from the Department of D...

Online lecture of the Botanical Garden Spring is coming and with it many plants and flowers. But what are they called again? Smartphone apps can help identify flora and fauna. One way to share your finds is with the iNaturalist platform. FAU's Erlangen Botanical Garden will present the citizen scie...

What do I reveal about myself during a visit to the museum? Visitors to the Deutsches Museum in Nuremberg will soon be able to find out for themselves. In a joint project, the museum, DATEV and FAU are working on an algorithm that shows visitors what kind of data trail they leave behind - on a volun...