Digitalisation with a human touch Articles

Last Monday, design researcher Gesche Joost from the SPD’s expert team was a guest in Trier and discussed her approaches to internet policy. The title was promising: “Brave New World Internet? Opportunity – Surveillance – Economic Factor” – that is three things at once, and expectations were correspondingly high. What can be put on the agenda in detail?

HTML5 and CSS3 are the building blocks of the future of the web – and Peter Kröner explains in a video tutorial (Galileo Press, €36.99) what is already possible today. Who would benefit from taking a look at the tutorial?

What challenges do shop owners face when trading online in the EU? In March 2013, I had the opportunity to speak on this topic at EIC Trier for Polybytes.

Podcasts have been with me for many years. They took up the space that radio probably occupies for other people. After a long absence, my series of podcast recommendations is now being reactivated. First up: Soziopod, a theory podcast with a lot of content.

“Decay”, a zombie film, relocates the zombie apocalypse to an unusual place – and despite certain flaws, shows what independent films are capable of.

The ancillary copyright law (Leistungsschutzrecht) is casting its shadow: the Bundestag will debate it this week in its first reading. If the German Newspaper Publishers and Publishers Association is to be believed, this has a lot to do with shoplifting. Read on to find out why that is not true.

Opinions on search engine optimization vary widely. For some, it is a simple necessity, for others a passion, and for still others, the biggest pain in the neck on the web. Eric Kubitz, managing director of Contentmanufaktur and author at the blog “SEO Book”, has now published the German video training “Suchmaschinen-Optimierung – Schritt für Schritt zum optimalen Ranking” with SEO knowledge for beginners and advanced users, which is intended to dispel the clichés.

On Media Studies Day, the Trier Media Studies Department celebrated its 15th birthday with exciting topics. Stefan Raue’s lecture on trimediality at MDR convinced with practical relevance, but remained pale when it came to the internet. The central question of the panel discussion: Can journalists help shape the digital future at all?

Is the new social media world a good fit for traditional theater? An interview with Karin Janner, organizer of the first Barcamp on theater and social media, about marketing with and the challenges of social media for the world of theater.

Science Fiction, made with the help of free tools, available to anyone. The free short movie “Tears of Steel” takes the viewer into a world broken by a broken heart.