Uncertain Journeys into Digital Futures

Dr. Thomas Kox; Dr. André Ullrich; Prof. Dr. Herbert Zech

doi:10.5771/9783748947585

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-0150-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-4758-5
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Normsetzung und Entscheidungsverfahren – Schriftenreihe des Weizenbaum-Instituts für normative Wissenschaften
Volume: 1
Language: English
Pages: 384
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
André Ullrich, Thomas Kox, Herbert Zech Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Smart cities and urban transformation
2. 2. Digital technologies for sustainability
3. 3. Social justice, governance, and citizen participation
4. 4. Imaginaries and visions of futures
1. Francesca Bria Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. The age of polycrisis and a new industrial paradigm
  2. 1. a) The chips war
    2. b) Computational power
    3. c) Market power in artificial intelligence
  3. 3. Surveillance capitalism and the threat to a democratic digital public sphere
  4. 1. a) Digital industrial policy for EU strategic autonomy
    2. b) A vision for an AI digital commons ecosystem
    3. c) Building the Euro stack
  5. 5. The way forward: A new Manhattan Project for science, technology, education, and culture
2. Mennatullah Hendawy, Jan Wieland, Furkan Koc Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Method
  3. 3. Results
  4. 4. Discussion: The passivisation of citizens through the use of technology
  5. 5. Conclusion
3. Bonny Brandenburger, Andrea Hamm, Caroline Krohn, Felix Sühlmann-Faul, Manuel Atug, Nicole Döpp, André Ullrich Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. a) Challenges for digitalisation projects in smart regions
    2. b) Enabling factors for municipal digitalisation projects
  3. 3. The Süderbrarup case study and methodological approach
  4. 1. a) Challenges of municipal digitalisation projects
    2. b) Enabling factors of municipal digitalisation projects
    3. c) Connecting challenges and enabling factors
  5. 5. Discussion
  6. 6. Conclusions
1. Ina K. Schieferdecker Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Technologies and societal progress – demystifying technical progress
  2. 2. Sustainability and digitalisation
  3. 3. The impact of AI on environmental sustainability
  4. 4. Conclusion
2. Lubna Rashid, Jordana Composto, Elke Weber Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Research design and hypotheses
  3. 3. Methods
  4. 4. Results
  5. 5. Discussion
  6. 6. Conclusion
3. Florian Butollo, Jennifer Haase, Ann-Kathrin Katzinski, Anne K. Krüger Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Research framework
  3. 3. Methods
  4. 1. 1. aa) Skills
      2. bb) Creativity
      3. cc) Authenticity
    2. 1. aa) Skills
      2. bb) Creativity
      3. cc) Authenticity
    3. 1. aa) Skills
      2. bb) Creativity
      3. cc) Authenticity
  5. 5. Conclusion
4. Paula Scharf, Benjamin Karic, Luca Hesse, Thomas Bartoschek Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Concept
  3. 3. Prototype
  4. 4. Applicability
  5. 5. Conclusion
5. Verena Majuntke, Lena Hoffmann, Felix Kronlage-Dammers, Grischa Beier, Nikolas Becker Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Green coding – bridging the gap from theory to practice
  2. 2. Why is GC important for the transformation towards sustainability development?
  3. 3. What is the current situation concerning GC?
  4. 4. What role do open-source approaches play regarding GC?
  5. 5. Advancing research and practical implementation of GC – what key steps and strategies are needed?
1. Tina Comes, Meyke Nering Bögel, Martijn Warnier Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Case study: Rapidly expanding refugee camps
  3. 3. Research approach and models
  4. 4. Results: The interplay of refugee behaviour and location decisions
  5. 5. Conclusions
2. Christian Herzog, Daniela Zetti, Robin Preiß Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Ill-structured problems
  3. 3. Digital sovereignty as an ill-structured problem?
  4. 4. Conclusions
3. Anne Mollen, Sigrid Kannengießer Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The interdisciplinary research field of sustainable AI
  3. 3. Socio-technological perspectives on AI infrastructures
  4. 4. Shaping AI infrastructures (more) sustainably
  5. 5. Conclusion
4. Florian Meissner, Jan Magnus Nold, Martina Angela Sasse, Rebecca Panskus, Alexander Wilke Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. What are the objectives of communication on cybersecurity?
  2. 2. State of research on public cybersecurity communication
  3. 3. Theoretical background: Basic principles for effective security communication
  4. 4. Methodology of data collection and analysis
  5. 1. a) Quantitative findings
    2. b) Qualitative findings
  6. 6. Conclusions
  7. 7. Limitations and outlook
  8. Appendix: List of analysed tweets
5. Ame Elliott Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. a) How data donation can promote clean energy usage
    2. b) Identifying a usage scenario
    3. c) Goals
  3. 1. a) Structure and activities
    2. b) Explanatory material
    3. c) Paper prototyping
  4. 1. a) Hypothesis
    2. b) Potential explanations for the ambivalent response
    3. c) Insights from the workshops
  5. 1. a) Crisis of professional knowledge in handling wicked problems
    2. b) Helping design professions serve the public interest
6. Marc Steen Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Ubuntu, a language app, and relational ethics
  3. 3. Māori data sovereignty and self-determination
  4. 4. Building a Lakota sweat lodge and building computer hardware
  5. 5. LAN Houses and mobile phones in a favela
  6. 5. Discussion and conclusion
7. Ines Weigand Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. a) Complex problems and the need for new ways of knowledge production
    2. b) Practicing the debate: new ways of learning and understanding
  2. 2. Method
  3. 1. a) Relationship with academia and its institutions
    2. b) Crossing borders: transdisciplinarity and art-science collaborations
    3. c) Co-creation, community learning and networks
    4. d) Openness and accessibility: do-it-yourself and do-it-together
    5. e) Situating the practice: site-specific and practice-based work
  4. 4. Discussion and outlook
8. Mennatullah Hendawy, Jana Baum, Anouk Cenan, Niklas Frechen, Anne Goldmann, Pauline Heger, Christoph Bieber Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Smart Cities: a history
  3. 3. Smart Cities: ideal concept vs reality
  4. 4. (Technical) decentralisation vs (administrative) centralisation?
  5. 5. The benefit of the Smart City hype
  6. 6. (How) will the concept of Smart Cities survive?
9. Yuya Shibuya, Seyi Olojo, Andrea Hamm, Radhika Krishnan, Teresa Cerratto Pargman Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Can counterdata be civic data?
  3. 3. Can civic data be counterdata?
  4. 4. Can civic data be open?
  5. 5. Can open data be civic data?
  6. 1. a) Collaboration between diverse stakeholders, including big tech companies
    2. b) Maintaining ownership and understanding the context
  7. 7. Conclusion
1. Josephine B. Schmitt, Samuel T. Simon Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. a) Perceptions of the interrelatedness of digital transformation and sustainability
    2. b) Approaches to understanding future visions
  3. 1. a) Procedure and sample
    2. b) Analysis strategy
  4. 1. a) Characterisation of thematic clusters
    2. b) Visual interpretation
  5. 5. Discussion: How do the drawings relate to peoples’ imaginaries?
  6. 6. Conclusion
2. Annemarie Witschas Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. Tracing the fabrication of futures
  3. 3. Elitist futures
  4. 1. a) Narrowing future corridors through a deterministic view of progress
    2. b) Distraction through exaggerated scenarios
  5. 5. The future as the final frontier: extending a colonial continuity
  6. 6. Building counterimaginaries
  7. 7. Conclusion
3. Lorenz Erdmann, Simone Kimpeler Download chapter (PDF)
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 1. a) Steps of the horizon scanning process on digital futures
    2. 1. aa) Scoping
      2. bb) Scanning
      3. cc) Participatory sensemaking
      4. dd) Desk research for validation of the findings
      5. ee) Foresight transfer
  3. 3. Reflection on debiasing in the horizon scanning process
  4. 4. Conclusion
4. List of Authors (alphabetic order)Pages 377 - 384 Download chapter (PDF)

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