Scholarly Platform
Reflecting and Shaping the Digital Age
The Scholarly Platform Reflecting and Shaping the Digital Age provides a forum for the investigation of the societal implications of research in data science and scientific computing and the media upheavals associated with the digital age. It brings together members of the different scientific and methodological domains with high-profile researchers from the humanities, the social and the law sciences. While the different domains of the CDS are strongly methods-driven, the broader discussion of possibilities and risks of media upheavals has always been at the core of the humanities as well as in the social and the law sciences. Advances in the fields of big data, supercomputers and artificial intelligence in combination with the rise of new digital media require a critical observation and reflection of the transformation from the analogue to the digital age. Moreover, digitalization embraces all aspects of personal and social life. This provokes new research questions relating to the effects of digital communication modes on modes of perception, knowledge acquisition, personal development and education as well as on social, ethical and legal implications.
Data Literacy Education
The Scholarly Platform sets out to establish a broad interdisciplinary dialogue on data-related problems, questions, and ideas. A central aim is to engage not only researchers, but also students, into this dialogue. To this end, the Scholarly Platform is currently involved in establishing a university-wide program in data and digital literacy education.
Third Mission
- The CDS co-organized the series of events "Truth, Populism, Internet - FAKE NEWS and Power in the Digital Age”, which was also supported by the public radio station WDR3.
Selected Research Projects
- Digitalisierung für ein Lernendes Gesundheitssystem – Entwicklung eines Mehrebenenmodells von Ethical Governance (LEG²ES)
- Entwicklung einer Orientierungshilfe zur Stärkung der Verbraucherkompetenz beim Umgang mit digitalen Gesundheitsinformationsangeboten (OriGes)
- Expertengruppe Digitale Transformation
- Gesundheitskompetenz von Risikopersonen – Von der Information zum Handeln (RisKomp)