FAUdigital

Two additional degree programs with a digital focus have been established at the faculty: The existing Master Political Science now coins a focus (20 ECTS) Digitalization and Social Change. Admission is open to those who have completed at least 30 ECTS in the Bachelor's degree in the field of dig...

This is how varied, digital teaching succeeds "A perfect online lecture balances the effort for the lecturer, the benefit for the students and sustainability," reveals Prof. Dr. Dirk Holtbrügge. The holder of the Chair of International Management and Laura Kirste, research assistant at the Chair, h...

Through time with the amphora On February 23 at 6 p.m., the virtual exhibition "Crisscross - Life Stories of Ancient Objects" of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at FAU will open. Prof. Dr. Corinna Reinhardt, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, has worked with students to reconstruc...

The first doctoral candidate in Digital Humanities, Sibylle Kunz, has received and accepted a call to a professorship in Media Informatics at the Department of IT and Technology at the IUBH International University. She also takes over as head of the Media Informatics study program. Sibylle Kunz ...

FAU doctoral student Franziska Schirrmacher nominated as AI newcomer She is developing methods to find digital traces in image or video files that can then be used to solve crimes. For her research, FAU doctoral student Franziska Schirrmacher, Chair of IT Security Infrastructures, has been nominate...

TikTok instead of blackboard, Goethe with GIFs "Integrating digital media into teaching is important not only in times of Corona and homeschooling," explains Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kammerl, holder of the Chair of Education with a focus on media education and head of the DigiLLab. As part of this, an adv...

Not only since the introduction of telecommunications source surveillance and the so-called state Trojan, there has been an ongoing debate about the use of surveillance measures for law enforcement and their legality. Especially when the privacy of citizens is violated, the measures are considered p...

The photographed life Dr. Michaela Kramer, media educator at FAU, has investigated the influence of smartphone photography and the presentation of images on social media on the identity formation of young people. This has resulted in a typology that describes different ways in which young people ca...

Institute of Book Studies at FAU completes the final phase of a three-year research project in the district of Forchheim Children or rather young people and media - this has always been a controversial topic. Especially when it comes to digital media, adults usually think: less is more. But should ...

We live in a world in which digitization is very advanced and is part of everyday life for many people. The Corona pandemic has further intensified this development. Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen from the Chair of Education with a focus on culture and aesthetic education comments on the topic in an in...