Institute
Welcome to the Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture at the University Regensburg!
At our institute, 9 professors, approximatly 70 employees and about 3,000 students research, study, teach and work in our various research chains:
- General and Comparative Linguistics
- Information Science
- Media Informatics
- Media Studies
- Comparative European Ethnology
As an iSchool we are part of an international network of information schools and one of the leading German locations for research on information behavior. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching formulates and investigates research questions that focus on people and their cultural techniques. Our vision is to understand the interplay of technology and culture as a potential for positively shaping the future of society.
Selected Research Projects
COURAGE
COURAGE is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and aims at a virtual companion that guides teenagers in the use of social networks. The virtual companion will increase awareness of the potential threats to which young people are exposed in social networks.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz (Information Science)
Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Term: 07/2019 - 07/2023
Amount of funding: around 1,5 M. Euro
More information: https://www.upf.edu/web/courage
VIGITIA
In the joint project VIGITIA, the project partners investigate how projected augmented reality (PAR) supports and enriches everyday interactions around tables.
Speaker: Dr. Raphael Wimmer (Media Informatics)
Funding: BMBF
Term: 07/2019 – 06/2022
More information: http://www.vigitia.de/
Physical Affordances for Digital Media and Workflows
The junior research group investigates how the unique advantages of physical and digital media can be combined. In particular, they are investigating how the efficient interaction possibilities of physical paper can be maintained in purely digital workflows on the one hand and what interaction possibilities of digital data can be taught to physical paper on the other.
Speaker: Dr. Raphael Wimmer (Media Informatics)
Funding: BMBF within the scope of the Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B)
Term: 02/2017 – 01/2022
Amount of funding: around 1.2 M. Euro
More information: https://hci.ur.de/
Digital Humanities
The term Digital Humanities refers to the use of digital resources and computer-based methods in the humanities. Within the framework of the project, the master's program of the same name was established in Regensburg, which enables bachelor's graduates in the humanities to apply, reflect on and further develop digital methods and algorithmic-analytical procedures.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig (Information Science), Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff (Media Informations)
Funding: BMBF within the scope of the innovation program „Digitaler Campus Bayern“
Term: 11/2016 – 10/2021
Amound of funding: around 3.6 M. Euro for the universities of Regensburg, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Munich
More information: www.dhregensburg.de
eKulturPortal
The aim of the joint project eKulturPortal was to design more efficient cultural industry processes in the area of stage guest performances in order to make their organization and administration much easier. For this purpose, an online platform for the electronic handling of the entire business process between provider, organizer and participating third parties was developed.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff (Media Informatics), Prof. Dr. Daniel Drascek (Comparative European Ethnology)
Funding: BMWi, focus of funding: „Mittelstand-Digital“, funding initiative: „eStandards“
Term: 09/2015 – 08/2018
Amount of Funding: around 1.2 M. Euro
More information: https://e-kultur.eu/ekulturportal/
Organization
Chairs and Professors
Prof. Dr. Gunther Hirschfelder
Office: Michaela Spreitzer
Coordination of Studies
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