ABOUT US
The Center for Digital Participation is supported by five professorships of the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig.
The Center for Digital Participation team offers sociological, economic, psychological, educational, and cultural studies perspectives on digital participation. The interdisciplinary analysis, the derivation of theoretically and empirically broadly supported recommendations and their communication in teaching and practice are the focus.
GOALS
The Center for Digital Participation brings together renowned experts in the field of digital participation in order to realize research projects and to communicate research results to the public.
The center supports the initiation of cooperations, the realization of research projects, and serves the exchange with interested partners in research and practice. Last but not least, it serves public education and agenda setting in the socially highly relevant topic area of digital participation.
The Center for Digital Participation aims to promote the opportunities of digitization by supporting critical, confident, creative, constructive and competent use of digital media. In this way, the center aims to contribute to social discourse and the successful shaping of digitization.
The Center’s major activities include:
The Center facilitates multidisciplinary national and international research projects, both in the field of basic research and in cooperation with practice partners in the field of applied research.
The members of the Center have proven knowledge and diverse methodological skills (representative surveys, interview studies, experiments, online observation, production-related as well as text analyses).
They combine interdisciplinary perspectives and thus enable the realization of diverse research projects – from the in-depth study of small numbers of cases to automated analyses of large amounts of data.
The members of the Center disseminate the latest research findings to the public and use their expertise to support decision-makers in practice.
They produce a wide range of publications and are available for presentations, debates and coaching sessions.
The Center’s research findings are incorporated into lectures, seminars and teaching/research projects.
Here, emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of digital participation.
There are also numerous opportunities for national and international cooperation in research and practice in education and training.