Lab Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies
The lab “Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies” explores reciprocal relations between digital technologies and social processes in organizations and communities (with a special focus on education). In the lab, we combine a deep understanding of technological processes with a profound sensitivity for fair and just technology design. The lab specializes in the critical exploration of the interactions and interdependencies between datafication processes, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital media on the one hand and societal processes and practices on the other hand. To achieve this, the lab leverages concepts and methods from computer science (participatory design, co-creation), the social sciences (critical datafication research), and applied research (computational social science and machine learning). The underlying assumption is that digital transformation can only be investigated through a theoretically grounded and empirically substantiated understanding of the respective application contexts.
Lecture by Andreas Breiter at Oxford University on the Opportunities and Risks of Communicative AI
On January 15, 2024, ZeMKI member Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter gave a lecture on current research projects at Oxford University. The event was organized by the Department of Education and the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Particular emphasis was placed on the digital transformation of education, especially with regard to the potential of artificial intelligence. Abstract: (…)
16. January 2024
New Publication by ZeMKI Members Adrian Roeske and Andreas Breiter together with Colleagues
The claim to measure education is as old as teaching and learning processes have been offered and organized in an institutionalized form. The aim was and is to improve and optimize learning and education. The central hope is to be able to better support individual learning through the collection of data and the use of (…)
7. December 2023
Meeting of theCompetence Network lernen:digital
In November 2023, a meeting of the lernen:digital competence network took place in Berlin, in which several ZeMKI members of Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter’s “Sociotechnical Systems and Critical Data Studies” lab took part. The meeting was intended to provide an insight into the strands and structures of the metaproject and offered the ZeMKI team the (…)
29. November 2023
ZeMKI Labs win the "AI in Education" Hackathon
The ZeMKI Lab “Socio-Technical Systems and Critical Data Studies” of Prof. Dr. Andreas Breitner, together with the ZeMKI Lab “Media and Education” of Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and colleagues from the University of Twente (ELAN, Prof. Kim Schildkamp), won the second hackathon on the topic of “AI in Education”. Over the course of two (…)
13. November 2023
Exploring Medial Change
- Datum: 24. October 2013 – 25. October 2013
- Location: Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI)
Internal event Media and communication change is currently the subject of various major research networks. The research group “Political Communication in the Online World” is investigating how politics and political communication are changing with the progressive establishment of the internet. The NCCR Democracy focuses, among other things, on the medialization of politics and society. The (…)
1. October 2013