*POWER* | Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Society for Media Studies)

Die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gastiert in jedem Jahr an einer anderen Universität im deutschsprachigen Raum. Im September 2025 wird sie nach fast 20 Jahren nun zum zweiten Mal an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden und sich dabei dem Thema *MACHT* widmen. Für den ersten Konferenztag ist eine Kooperation mit dem Heinz ...

Duration: 09/2025 - 09/2025

Systematic Development of an Open Access Culture at the University - a Development-Oriented Empirical Case Study

The University of Paderborn already has good conditions for Open Access publishing, organized by the University Library. The research project 'OASE' aims to assess the current status of the university's Open Access Culture (OAC) and to increase its visibility. The aim of the project is to develop measures for the dissemination of OAC through a ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development

The project “LeadCom – Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development” is part of the BMBF/NextGenerationEU-funded competence center “School Development” in the competence network “lernen:digital”. In collaboration with eleven universities, numerous schools and transfer partners, the LeadCom project is developing and implementing ...

Duration: 08/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

TRR 318 - Project B6: Ethics and normativity of explainable AI

Research on explaining and explainability needs ethical reflection, because explanations can be used to manipulate users or to create acceptance for a technology that is ethically or legally unacceptable. Moreover, designing explainability to meet ethical demands (e.g., justifiability, accountability, autonomy) must not necessarily be in line with ...

Duration: 07/2023 - 12/2025

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

TRR 318 - Constructing Explainability

In unserer digitalen Gesellschaft nehmen die algorithmischen Ansätze (wie das maschinelle Lernen) rasant an Komplexität zu. Diese erschwert es den Bürger:innen, die Assistenz nachzuvollziehen und die von Algorithmen vorgeschlagenen Entscheidungen zu akzeptieren. Als Antwort auf diese gesellschaftliche Herausforderung hat die Forschung begonnen, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

Home Computer: Digitalization and the Domestic

Since October 2020, the project has been dealing with the domestication of the computer from a media studies perspective. It examines the genesis of the computerization of the home at the interface of personal and home computers and thus for the period of the 1970-1990s. The question is under which historical conditions and with which effects the ...

Duration: 10/2020 - 03/2025

DaLiS@OWL: Data competences for research, business and society

DaLiS@OWL (short form of DataLiteracySkills@OWL) is the project of Bielefeld University (consortium leader), the University of Paderborn and Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for the cross-disciplinary and cross-university teaching of Data Literacy Skills (DaLiS) for students of all subjects. The project aims to prepare students for a ...

Duration: 03/2020 - 02/2023

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel, Marcel Gemander

DigHomE: Digital Home Learning Environment - Conditions for parental support in information-oriented internet use

Die BMBF-geförderte interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe DigHomE untersucht Einflüsse informeller und non-formaler digitaler Bildung von Schüler/innen im Elternhaus auf die informationsorientierte Nutzung des Internets für schulische Belange. Die Analyse der digitalen häuslichen Lernumwelt von Kindern und Jugendlichen soll es dabei ermöglichen, ...

Duration: 05/2019 - 04/2023

QuaSiD: Quality assurance in the digitisation strategy: success factors and constellations of actors in the dissemination and anchoring

Many digitisation projects in universities have already been successfully implemented and found broad acceptance, while other projects have brought little benefit to those involved. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the success and failure factors of digitisation projects, their diffusion and fundamental challenges, the QuaSiD project ...

Duration: 03/2017 - 03/2020

*POWER* | Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (Society for Media Studies)

Die Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft gastiert in jedem Jahr an einer anderen Universität im deutschsprachigen Raum. Im September 2025 wird sie nach fast 20 Jahren nun zum zweiten Mal an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden und sich dabei dem Thema *MACHT* widmen. Für den ersten Konferenztag ist eine Kooperation mit dem Heinz ...

Duration: 09/2025 - 09/2025

Systematic Development of an Open Access Culture at the University - a Development-Oriented Empirical Case Study

The University of Paderborn already has good conditions for Open Access publishing, organized by the University Library. The research project 'OASE' aims to assess the current status of the university's Open Access Culture (OAC) and to increase its visibility. The aim of the project is to develop measures for the dissemination of OAC through a ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development

The project “LeadCom – Digital Leadership & Communication and Cooperation Development” is part of the BMBF/NextGenerationEU-funded competence center “School Development” in the competence network “lernen:digital”. In collaboration with eleven universities, numerous schools and transfer partners, the LeadCom project is developing and implementing ...

Duration: 08/2023 - 03/2026

Contact: Prof. Dr. Dorothee M. Meister

TRR 318 - Project B6: Ethics and normativity of explainable AI

Research on explaining and explainability needs ethical reflection, because explanations can be used to manipulate users or to create acceptance for a technology that is ethically or legally unacceptable. Moreover, designing explainability to meet ethical demands (e.g., justifiability, accountability, autonomy) must not necessarily be in line with ...

Duration: 07/2023 - 12/2025

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

TRR 318 - Constructing Explainability

In unserer digitalen Gesellschaft nehmen die algorithmischen Ansätze (wie das maschinelle Lernen) rasant an Komplexität zu. Diese erschwert es den Bürger:innen, die Assistenz nachzuvollziehen und die von Algorithmen vorgeschlagenen Entscheidungen zu akzeptieren. Als Antwort auf diese gesellschaftliche Herausforderung hat die Forschung begonnen, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

Home Computer: Digitalization and the Domestic

Since October 2020, the project has been dealing with the domestication of the computer from a media studies perspective. It examines the genesis of the computerization of the home at the interface of personal and home computers and thus for the period of the 1970-1990s. The question is under which historical conditions and with which effects the ...

Duration: 10/2020 - 03/2025

DaLiS@OWL: Data competences for research, business and society

DaLiS@OWL (short form of DataLiteracySkills@OWL) is the project of Bielefeld University (consortium leader), the University of Paderborn and Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences for the cross-disciplinary and cross-university teaching of Data Literacy Skills (DaLiS) for students of all subjects. The project aims to prepare students for a ...

Duration: 03/2020 - 02/2023

Contact: Prof. Dr. Gudrun Oevel, Marcel Gemander

DigHomE: Digital Home Learning Environment - Conditions for parental support in information-oriented internet use

Die BMBF-geförderte interdisziplinäre Forschungsgruppe DigHomE untersucht Einflüsse informeller und non-formaler digitaler Bildung von Schüler/innen im Elternhaus auf die informationsorientierte Nutzung des Internets für schulische Belange. Die Analyse der digitalen häuslichen Lernumwelt von Kindern und Jugendlichen soll es dabei ermöglichen, ...

Duration: 05/2019 - 04/2023

QuaSiD: Quality assurance in the digitisation strategy: success factors and constellations of actors in the dissemination and anchoring

Many digitisation projects in universities have already been successfully implemented and found broad acceptance, while other projects have brought little benefit to those involved. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the success and failure factors of digitisation projects, their diffusion and fundamental challenges, the QuaSiD project ...

Duration: 03/2017 - 03/2020