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Digital Transformation - a Scientific Overview (10SMSTS-204)

Description

This module provides students with a scientific overview of the digital transformation of our society from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Students receive academic input followed by an interactive session with various DSI professors and learn to engage with and reflect on the challenges, opportunities and consequences of digital transformation.

Sessions are usually structured as follows (exceptions are possible):

  • 14:00 to 14:45: Input lecture by expert
  • 15:00 to 15:45: Group work related to the input lecture
    (30 min Pause)
  • 16:15 to 17:00: Learning journal update & general reflection discussion

Students:

  • obtain a structured overview of research fields that deal with the digital transformation
  • reflect on the digital transformation of our society both in group discussions and on the individual level
  • critically consider the social implications of the Digital Society.

Semester Highlights

Speaker

Date

Content

Manuel Günter

22.09.2025

Face recognition

Tilman Altwicker

29.09.2025

Legal Data Science

Mario Angst

06.10.2025

Digital Sustainability

Joshua Weidlich

13.10.2025

Digital Education / Skills

Roland Meyer

20.10.2025

Economies of networked image cultures

Alexandre Bovet

27.10.2025

Network Science

Thomas Schlag / Beth Singler

03.11.2025

Digital Religions

Teodora Vuković

10.11.2025

Analysis of multimodal human data

Karsten Donnay

17.11.2025

Digital democracy

Students and CoP

01.12.2025

End-of-Semester Celebration

 Semester-specific information can be found in the course catalogue VVZ and on OLAT.

Target group

MA

ECTS Credits

3 ECTS

Course catalogue

You can find more information about the module here.

Additional Information

Contact

Dr. Markus Christen

E-mail