The socio-technical disruptions known as the “digital transformation” or, in some cases, the “digital revolution” are fundamentally changing geographies. At the Chair of Cultural & Political Geography in Erlangen, we study these upheavals from a cultural, social, and political geographic perspective. Within the German-speaking geography we have established the research context of a “Digital Geography” together with other colleagues and are internationally and interdisciplinarily networked in this field.
We are investigating in several projects how the production and use of geographic information changes in the digital transformation and which inequalities are (re-)produced (e.g. research on OpenStreetMap, on the role of geodata in the documentation of human rights violations as well as on the social and political background of “smart city” projects). For several years, we have also been conducting research on the increasing geopoliticization of the digital transformation.
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Contested Spatialities of Digital Sovereignty
In: Geopolitics 28 (2023), p. 919-958
ISSN: 1465-0045
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2050070
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Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods for Digital Humanities – An Introduction to the Book
In: Finn Dammann, Dominik Kremer (ed.): Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, 2024, p. 7-12 (Digital Humanities Research, Vol.8)
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6918-3
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Kritisches Kartieren – zur Einführung
In: Finn Dammann & Boris Michel (ed.): Handbuch Kritisches Kartieren, 2022, p. 9-21 (Sozial- und Kulturgeographie, Vol.51)
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»Wir müssen als Deutsche und Europäer unsere digitale Souveränität zurückgewinnen!« Historische Rekonstruktion und internationale Kontextualisierung der Diskurse einer »digitalen Souveränität« in Deutschland
In: Georg Glasze / Eva Odzuck / Ronald Staples (ed.): Was heißt digitale Souveränität? Diskurse, Praktiken und Voraussetzungen »individueller« und »staatlicher Souveränität« im digitalen Zeitalter, Transcript: Transcript, 2022, p. 29-60 (Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft, Vol.3)
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Verfahren der lexikometrisch-compterlinguistischen Analyse von Textkorpora.
In: Georg Glasze & Annika Mattissek (ed.): Handbuch für Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung, Bielefeld: transcript, 2021, p. 313-343
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Digital technologies trigger an intensifying datafication and enable a growing legibility of individual, social and socio-technical processes. Against this background, questions of access to, ownership and protection of data, that is to say questions of the configuration of data circulations are negotiated—often under the label of a “digital sovereignty”.“Sovereignty”, the “sovereign state”, the “sovereign subject”and the “sovereign organisation”are fundamental concepts of (European) modernity.…
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)
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Volunteered geographic information (VGI), that is to say, the voluntary and non-paid collection of geodata within the interactive web 2.0, has been interpreted as a chance for giving marginalized voices access to the compilation and dissemination of geographic information. However, the idea that within the web 2.0 everybody could participate in the fabrication of geographic information has been rapidly questioned, pointing to the different social and socio-technical forms of exclusion. Yet, desp…
Funding source: Industrie
Acronym: Modul für Science Center Experimenta
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Funding source: Bayerische Forschungsallianz (BayFOR)
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Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)
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Volunteered geographic information (VGI), that is to say, the voluntary and non-paid collection of geodata within the interactive web 2.0, has been interpreted as a chance for giving marginalized voices access to the compilation and dissemination of geographic information. However, the idea that within the web 2.0 everybody could participate in the fabrication of geographic information has been rapidly questioned, pointing to the different social and socio-technical forms of exclusion. Yet, desp…
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Funding source: Stiftungen
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Im Rahmen desPromotionsvorhabens beschäftigt sich Christian Eichenmüller mit der Lesbarkeit und Kalkulierbarkeit städtischer Räume, die im Kontext der Digitalisierung städtischer Infrastruktur einen neuen Schub erfährt. Das Ausmaß von ‚Lesbarmachung‘ und Kalkulierbarkeit städtischer Räume ist nicht einfach gegeben, sondern wird aktiv produziert. Zur Lesbar- und Sichtbarmachung und zur Herstellung von Kalkulierbarkeit urbaner Räume bedarf es Einheiten, die identifiziert, dokumentiert, gezählt und…
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Funding source: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR)
Acronym: GeoDatRights
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The project "Geo-Data for the Digital Documentation of Human Rights Violations" (GeoDatRights) aims to a) use satellite-based remote sensing and social media data to investigate the destruction and military appropriation of educational institutions in war zones, and b) establish digital analysis skills in German-language human rights research over the course of the project. FAU already has a distinctive human rights profile and aims to expand it in a forward-looking way. In the GeoDatRights proj…
Acronym: FAU GeoExplorer
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DeutschEnglischIn geography and many other disciplines (e.g., archaeology, art history, biology, geology), field trips enable on-site learning. Digital media can contextualize locations by providing additional information. In current e-learning solutions, however, the didactic potential of digitally supported excursions is only rudimentarily developed.This is where the "FAU-GeoExplorer" project comes in: The tool already enables (1) a platform-independent use of media and (2) a didactically stru…
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Das Vorhaben beforscht den Prozess der Entstehung europäischer (Cloud-)Infrastrukturen, welche die souveräne Digitalisierung von Staat, Industrie und Gesellschaft vorantreiben sollen. In diesem Prozess soll eine der wichtigsten Infrastrukturen des 21. Jahrhunderts – das Internet – ‚europäisiert‘ werden. Es ist zu erwarten, dass dabei dauerhafte Pfadabhängigkeiten und damit auch bleibende gesellschaftliche Realitäten geschaffen werden.Darüber hinaus werden in der europäischen Internetpolitik, als…
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)
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This project examines transformations and tensions in the field of open geospatial data. It’s starting point is the growing role of commercial and institutional actors in OpenStreetMap (OSM). In the context of the OSM open geospatial database – a project that relies heavily on the voluntary engagement of local communities of mappers – these developments have significant implications for geospatial data. The research project starts from the premise that there is a tension between the ethos of OS…
Funding source: DFG / Exzellenzcluster (EXC)
Acronym: EXC 3039
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Funding source: DFG / Exzellenzcluster (EXC)
Acronym: EXC 3039
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From the perspective of the Cluster’s analyticalframework, the workshop directly engages with allthree core dimensions of human rights norms,institutions, and practices (Who, What, and How). First,it addresses the question of who holds rights and bearsresponsibilities by examining how the reorganisation ofspaces through e.g. transnational networks, digitalinfrastructures, logistical systems, and planetaryinterdependencies redistributes agency and obligationbeyond territorially bounded states, in…
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