After successful completion of the course, students are able to analyse and reflect on the current developments in Informatics, and, hopefully, have both committment and ideas to influence the future development.

Thus, students will work on and get a better understanding of digital humanism, which we define as a concept that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights.

see also the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and Info about the related workshop in April 2019: www.informatics.tuwien.ac.at/dighum

Lectures/meetings will be held remotely via Zoom.

Preliminary discussion (Vorbesprechung):  7.10.2020, 5pm c.t., Online/Zoom

Tentative next dates: lectures 14.10., 21.10., 28.10.; topic assignment until 4.11.

The course consists of two parts:

a)     Lectures on selected topics of Digital Humanism

b)     Students in groups (size 3 – 5) will work on specific subconcepts and / or dimensions of digital humanism. In interactive session they will present their intermediate and final results. The topics for the presentations will be assigned in October.

The LV starts with “classical” lectures, then students work on their projects. There will be intermediate presentations of the group works.

In parallel, there will be public presentations of internationally renowned academics (see https://dighum.ec.tuwien.ac.at/dighum-lectures/).

- Presentations / Lectures

- Group work: literature review, presentation, argumentation, paper writing

- Interactive format, workshop

For information on the topic see www.informatics.tuwien.ac.at/dighum

Attention, mandatory attendance at lectures and presentation sessions and at the preliminary discussion!

The students have to provide a final presentation and report.

Precondition for participation, you must satisfy all three (!):

a) Master student, b) registration in the course, c) attendance in the preliminary discussion.