Digitalization & Media

Education impacts how we think, work, and contribute to the world. Yet as education providers, we mainly measure what is easy rather than what matters. Our definition of educational quality determines what we need to pay attention to and what we risk overlooking. This is why we need clarity about what educational quality is and how to measure it.

User experience (UX) has significant advantages for organisations, but we do not know much about how the industry goes about strategically implementing UX. At Mensch & Computer 2025, Julia Messerschmidt and I presented a study on the current state of UX vision and UX strategy.

While training digital skills is vital for organisations and society, education still ultimately serves a deeply human purpose. The human-centered training management cycle ensures that human training needs are always kept in focus.

In a world of advanced digital technologies, digital skills are becoming more and more important. However, to create meaningful training programs for digital skills, we need a deeply human-centered approach and focus on designing for positive experiences.

At Silicon Techie Night #24, I shared my insights and impulses about strategy: When we want to create truly meaningful technology for humans, how can strategy help us to deliver real value?

In 1919, Kurt Tucholsky answered the question “What is satire allowed to do?” with “Everything”. On Media Studies Day, 100 years later, we once again addressed the question: Christian Karch gave a lecture on the freedoms and limits of entertainment. We also bid farewell to Professor Hans-Jürgen Bucher, who established the subject in 1998.

Digital transformation profoundly changes how organizations work. This is why organizations need a digital strategy. But what exactly is a digital strategy? And which aspects should it consider?

20 years of media studies in Trier: On the 27th of January 2018, media studies celebrated its history, with various contributions by students, a keynote by Silke Burmester focusing on “influencers and journalists”, a panel discussion about attention in the media, and obviously reviews and outlooks with emotional tributes.

Few developments are so important for media studies like the change of media, caused by the digitalisation for about 20 years. At the day of media science on the 5th of November 2016, two topics covered this aspect: Oliver Auster explained how his employer, the German tabloid “Bild”, reacted to the challenge, and Corinna Trierweiler, Fabienne Aßmann, and Steffen Büffel spoke about the job chances of alumni of media studies.

“Computer games as media art”: In this year, we invited Stephan Schwingeler, a pioneer in the field of game studies and himself alumni of media studies in Trier, to give a keynote at the day of media studies. Taking a media studies perspective, he talked about an area which we consider not often enough. How are computer games used in media art?