New Instagram channel "DigiTransLab" informs on Platformization

The Junior Research Group Digitalization and Social Transformation, led by Laura Wiesböck, is now on Instagram. DigiTransLab provides insights into the group's current research activities and shares knowledge about platformization and digitalization.

The channel provides information about the group's ongoing activities, such as research projects, publications, and teaching activities, as well as easy-to-understand info posts on key concepts in the field of platformization, such as digital capitalism, data colonialism, and addictive design

In doing so, the group pursues the following goals:

  • to reach younger audiences in a more targeted manner,
  • to raise awareness of the power of digital platforms, which shape discourse, mediate relationships, influence political processes and access to information, and can undermine democratic structures, and thus
  • to promote knowledge-based media literacy based on a broad and deep understanding of the architecture of digital platforms.

Learn more about the group's work and follow DigiTransLab on Instagram.