Four Thematic Clusters
How does digitalization impact labour markets, service provisions, public administration or private life? DIGIT’s thematic clusters form the foundation of the school’s two-year programme.
Digitalization and Working Life
Digitalization is changing our labour markets, and historical processes of transformation in working life demonstratehow changes in technology impact the production process, such as - in the automotive industry. The current impacts of technological change remain largely uncertain, but changes in job demand, job quality, and the impact on workinglife are already emerging. How does digitalization impact labour market conditions for different groups of workers? And how do technological developments contribute to blurring the boundaries between work and private life?
Digitalisation, Security, and Private Life
Processes of informationalization and digitalization change the relationship with others and ourselves, and the collection of digital data and analytic procedures strengthen the role of profiling in society. Mass digitalization transforms not only classic notions of informational privacy but also actively co-shapes individual and social behaviour. How do machine learning and associative tools change social and political processes, and how does digitalization interact with predictive politics and risk assessment tools?
Digitalisation, Service Provision, and Public Administration
We expect digitization to continue changing service offers and public administration, hoping it will increase efficiency, justice, and accountability, but also fear it’s leading to problems such as social exclusion, dehumanization, and inequality. Ongoing transformations will promote new types of services and service users, new needs and solutions, and new and potentially fruitful ways of cooperation between service providers and public administration on the one hand, and service users and communities on the other, in both the health and social sector. DIGIT aims to provide knowledge about challenges and opportunities for managers, service providers and service users of digital spheres.
Digitalisation, Governance, and Democracy
Digitalization impacts the relationship between citizens, politicians and public institutions. The digitalization of the public sphere has transformed conditions for producing and disseminating information, thus changing the role of mass media as gatekeepers of information and allowing a range of actors, such as politicians, civil society organizations, groups, and singular actors to exert communicative powers.