Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit
Titel auf Englisch: Sustainability and Digitalisation
Lernergebnisse
The module provides knowledge and understanding of social science sustainability research at the interface of technology, environment and society. After attending the module, students will be able to adequately describe digitization as a comprehensive transformation process in terms of its advantages and disadvantages and analyse various digitization phenomena from a social science perspective. They can use digital media and communication formats (blogs, podcasts) in a targeted manner. Students are able to conduct case analyses after completing the module.
Inhalte
- Part 1: Is digitalisation sustainable? - An introduction to digital technologies and their social and environmental impact
- Part 2: Is digitalisation serving sustainability? – Diving into sustainable human, technology and nature relationships and innovations for a sustainable world
- Part 3: Assessing the effects of specific digital technologies (e.g., Artificial intelligence, Smart Everything or Platform economy) for sustainable development as well as their effects on specific spheres of life (e.g., data protection, effects on democracy and digital divide).
Voraussetzungen
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Prüfungsmodalitäten
- Written exam (45 min.) - (30%)
- Group presentation (max. 10 min/person) - (30%)
- 2 exercises from the seminar, incl. a reflection on the topic of the exercises to hand in (3 pages per exercise) - (15% per exercise)
- Active participation in class (10%)
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Wahlpflichtkomplex: Fachübergreifendes Studium
| Studiengang | Abschluss | Wahlpflichtkomplex |
|---|---|---|
| Alle Studiengänge | Alle Abschlüsse | Fachübergreifendes Studium |
Literatur und Materialien
- Lange, S., & Santarius, T. (2020). Smart Green World?: Making Digitalisation Work for Sustainability. Routledge.
- Hilty, L., and Aebischer, B. (2015). ICT Innovations for Sustainability. Advances in intelligent systems and computing, 310, p. 351-365.
- Vetter, A. (2018). The matrix of convivial technology–assessing technologies for degrowth. Journal of Cleaner Production, 197, 1778-1786.
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