Digital Humanities and Societies

We aim to understand, reflect on, and actively shape processes of digitalization. To achieve this, we bring together research on cultural, social, economic, and technological dynamics. We examine how digital technologies—particularly artificial intelligence—are transforming perception, knowledge, response, art, literature, and aesthetics as well as social and economic structures. We also explore how these transformations are shaped by and manifested in cultural practices, symbolic systems, and discourses.

We combine our expertise in computational linguistics, visualization, artificial intelligence, business informatics, digital humanities, art history, literary studies, philosophy, computational social science, economics and simulation science to develop interdisciplinary concepts for research and teaching. We work closely with archives and university-affiliated, internationally renowned research institutions such as the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), the Visualization Research Center (VISUS), and the Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM). In this way, we strengthen basic research and position Digital Humanities and Societies as a national and international hub for digital knowledge research.

We teach in a project-oriented manner, impart interdisciplinary thinking to our students, and prepare them for careers in research, schools, culture, business, and politics through integrative project work.