Innsbruck Doctoral College #OrganizingtheDigital
Relations, Publics, Societies
Recently, the increasing transdisciplinary importance of the digital has become obvious by a growing number of PhD projects that address their respective questions from various theoretical and methodological perspectives. Across research centers, digitization poses new and relevant research questions and provides new sources of data for addressing them.
The digital permeates micro, meso and macro level phenomena in contemporary societies. The aim and unique contribution of the doctoral school and its grounding in organization theory, media- and communications studies, consumer culture theory, labor market and general management theories is its potential to bridge and transcend these levels of analysis. Consequently, our emphasis on digital relations, digital publics and digital societies represents exactly such a transversal perspective on digital dynamics.
Methodologically, the doctoral college takes a multi-method and inter-disciplinary lens and advances conceptual research, experimental, qualitative and interpretive studies, as well as related quantifications and network analyses of digital texts, visuals, and behavioral patterns of digital relations, publics, and societies in management research and the social sciences.
Heads
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Hemetsberger*
Professor for Branding
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leonhard Dobusch*
Professor of business administration with a focus on organization
Faculty Members
Former Members
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Pallaver*
* Founding Faculty
Alwin Baumhöver
" Organizing and being organized by the Visible – The Performativity of Transparency in the Management of Visibilities in Social Media Platforms"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests:
www.linkedin.com/in/alwinbaumhoever
https://www.uibk.ac.at/iol/organisation/team/alwin_baumhoever/
Christoph Burtscher
“Governance of non-compliant technology”
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Digital deviance, non-compliant technology, governance mechanisms
www.linkedin.com/in/christophburtscher
Khalid Durani
“Ethics and Information Systems: Theoretical and Empirical Insights”
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Ethical Design, Visual Research, Social (In)Equality, Online Extremism
https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-durani-793046220/
Khalid Durani – Universität Innsbruck
Christiane Ernst
"Promoting Trust in Algorithms within Information Systems: Investigating the Balance Between Algorithmic Appreciation and Aversion and the Role of Behavioral Nudges"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Algorithmic Aversion/Appreciation, Behavioral Nudges, Human Computer Interaction, Fake News
https://www.uibk.ac.at/wipl/team/team/ernst.html.de
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiane-ernst
Linda Hintsteiner
"Challenges of non-financial performance measurement"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Performance measurement, Non-financial performance, Management accounting, Qualitative research methods
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/iol/controlling/team/hintsteiner/
www.linkedin.com/in/lindahintsteiner
Samuel Kießling
"Does Design Matter? Evaluation of Design Choices for Human-Centered Information Systems"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Human-Centered Information Systems, Modelling, Process Model Layout, Label Layout, Fake News, Design Choices
Jacqueline Kowalski
"Participative and inclusive future visions of people with disabilities in entangled socio-material-technological public spaces"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Digital Geographies, Future Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Mixed methods, Co-productive approaches
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/geographie/personal/kowalski/
https://www.transient-spaces.org/jacqueline-kowalski/?et_fb=1&PageSpeed=off
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-kowalski-002416209/
https://twitter.com/JackiieKowalski
Animesh Kumar
"The spread of non-compliant IT within and across organizational boundaries"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: online deviance, collectives in IS, neural networks, A.I.
Robert Lamprecht
" Withstanding Spear Phishing in Online Social Networks – Theoretical Conceptualizations and Empirical Evidence of Security Networks Online-Accounts"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Security Awareness, Social Engineering, Spear Phishing, Security Networks
https://twitter.com/oetzinger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlamprechtinfosec/
Sebastian Lüpnitz
"How to Navigate Polarization without Further Fueling it? Organizing for Grand Societal Challenges in Polarized Discourses"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Polarization, Social Movements, Climate Change, Future-making
Research methods: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Interdiciplinary Research
Andrea Markl
"Understanding the intersections of social media affordances and young people’s negotiations of difference and identity work in cON/FFlating spaces"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: young people, negotiations of difference and violence, entangled online-offline spaces, mobile media method(ologie)s
https://www.transient-spaces.org/andrea-markl/
https://www.twitter.com/Andrea_Markl
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Markl
Johannes Melchert
"A critical geographical disabilities studies perspective on biopolitics: Using biosensing technologies to understand young people’s emotions and relational dynamics in the (digital) urban space"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Digital Geographies; Critical Disability Studies; Biosensing methods; Co-productive research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-melchert
https://x.com/JoMelchert?t
Adi Mrozowski
"Machine Learning Innovation Contests"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Applied Data Science, Low-Code Development Platforms and Innovation Contests
Mario Neururer
"Reconfiguring capabilities during a digital transformation: A repeatable mechanism for Organizational Interaction"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: #DigitalTransformation, #SystemsThinking, #DynamicCapabilities
https://marioneururer.medium.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marioneururer/
Jan Misera
"Everyday encounters at the margins"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: geographies of inclusion, geographies of encounters, mobile eye-tracking, biosensing
https://www.transient-spaces.org/jan-misera/
https://twitter.com/JanMisera
Thomas Ortner
"Open Strategy and its Implementation Consequences"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Open Strategy, Strategic Transparency, Inclusion, Strategy Implementation
Research methods: Experiments, Case Study, Interviews
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-ortner/
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/smt/strategic-management/team/ortner/
Anna Salchner
"Hyper-Personalization: A Consumer Perspective"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: AI-enabled Personalization, Personalization-Privacy Paradox, Consumer Behavior and Experiences
Research methods: qualitative methods, field experiments
www.linkedin.com/in/anna-salchner-42b930211
https://www.uibk.ac.at/smt/marketing/department/team/anna_salchner.html
Katrin Schefbänker
"Emotions in Digital Employee-Consumer Interactions: A Neuroscience Approach in Service Management Research"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Emotional expressions, AI-detected emotions, Consumer behavior, Service interactions
Research methods: Quantitative methods, Deep neural network-based emotion analysis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrin-schefbänker
https://www.uibk.ac.at/smt/service-management/staff/schefbaenker
Felix Schmid
"Sustainable through openness? How open strategy can enhance the sustainable transformation of organizations"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Open Strategy, Sustainable Strategy, Organizational Transformation, Digital Inclusion
Andrea Valeri
"AI-Powered Platforms Analyzing the competition among platform-native companies and between platform-native companies and incumbents in the age of AI"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, decision-making processes, recommendation engines, digital platform strategies
Research methods: interviews, experiments, case study, framework consolidation
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea-Valeri-2
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreavaleri0/
Julia Waldegger
"Exploring People Analytics Through the Lens of Algorithmic Governmentality"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: people analytics, algorithmic HRM, Algorithm-based decision-making, HRM practices, algorithmic governmentality
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Waldegger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-waldegger/
Renata Santiago Walser
"Chatbots in idea selection"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, Idea Selection, Chatbots
www.uibk.ac.at/iol/hrm/staff/bianca-schoenherr/bianca-schoenherr.html
https://at.linkedin.com/in/paul-zimmermann-36546817b
www.facebook.com/renata.santiago
Matthias Weber
"The new invisible hand – Resistance to Algorithmic Control in the Gig Economy"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: algorithmic control, Future of work, Gig economy, Worker reactions
https://www.uibk.ac.at/wipl/team/team/weber.html.de
www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-jk-weber
Huiqiao Yuan
"Adaptation, Representation and Exclusion of Chinese ?Study Mothers? Through Social Media in Singapore"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Digital geographies, immigration, gender, social media and transnational families
https://www.transient-spaces.org/huiqiao-yuan/
https://twitter.com/HuiqiaoYuan
https://au.linkedin.com/in/huiqiao-yuan
Anja Zakošek
"Set upping media literacy models for people with disabilities"
(Preliminary Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: media literacy, media, critical thinking, disability
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anja-zako%C5%A1ek-b9907a224/?originalSubdomain=si
https://www.instagram.com/azakosek/
https://www.facebook.com/anja.zakosek.7
https://twitter.com/a_zakosek
ALUMNI 2024
Paul Zimmermann
"Studying the Management and Regulation of Whistleblowing"
(Title of Thesis)
Research Interests: Whistleblowing, (Anti-)Corruption, Foucault, Problematisation
ALUMNI 2024
Milena Leybold
"The text decides who´s in or out - a communicative perseptive on organizing situational membership"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Organizational Openness, Communicative Constitution and Organizing (CCO), Digital Research Methods
https://twitter.com/MilenaKLey
www.linkedin.com/in/milena-leybold-a36a1a164/
ALUMNI 2023
Heike Hebborn
"The Role of Emotions and Advice in the Digital Transformation of Organizations"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Emotions, Advice, Digitalization
ALUMNI 2023
Sarah Schwarz
"Consumer Nomadicity: Consumption in Mobility Contexts "
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Consumer Culture Theory (CCT); Digital Nomads; Mobility; Nomadic Consumer-Object Relationships
https://www.uibk.ac.at/smt/marketing/department/team/schwarz
ALUMNI 2023
Andreas Körner
"Variegated Poché"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Digital Design, Digital Fabrication, CFD Simulations in Architecture, Information Materials, Ornament
https://www.andreaskoerner.at
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Koerner6
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-k%C3%B6rner-3350a3139
ALUMNI 2023
Aleksander Groth
""Everyone should be upset." : Communicative organizing of an online firestorm"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Game Communities, Organizationality, Collective Action, Community Power, Massive Online Games
ALUMNI 2023
Éva Kaczkó
"Fostering critical thinking in collaborative (e-)learning environments : pragmatist pedagogical approaches"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Higher Education, Continuing Education, E-Learning, Community of Inquiry Framework, Learning Analytics
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/iol/wipaed/team/eva_kaczko/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evakaczko
ALUMNI 2023
Monica Nadegger
"We Asked You to Speak Up and You Roared". The Communicative Consitution of Resistance on Digital Platforms"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Digital Qualitative Methods, New Organizational Theories, Digital Data, Social Networks
https://twitter.com/moni_nadegger
https://osconjunction.net/author/nadeggermonica/
https://blog.innsbruck.info/de/autor/monica/
ALUMNI 2023
Patrick W. Neef, BSc MSc MSc
"Measurement and prediction of consumer responses in digital environments"
Title of Thesis
Research Interest: Programmatic Advertising, Mouse Tracking, Rating Systems
ALUMNI 2023
Christiane Aufschnaiter
"Consuming materiality in the digital age"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Consumer Culture Theory, Practice Theory, Digital & Analogue Consumption Practices, Creative Consumption, Consumer Experience
https://twitter.com/@Christiane_Auf
www.linkedin.com/in/christianeaufschnaiter
www.researchgate.net/profile/Christiane_Aufschnaiter
ALUMNI 2023
Marilyn Poon
"Voices of dissent and the textualizing techniques of platform technologies –The communicative constitution of a social movement"
Title of Thesis
Research Interest: Journalistic Collaborations, Routine Dynamics, Visual Culture, Empowerment
https://twitter.com/marilyn_poon
www.uibk.ac.at/iol/organisation/team/poon/index.html
ALUMNI 2023
Sebastian P. Gauster
" Enabling and Enhancing Innovation: Aspects of Agility, Management Innovation, and Novel Innovation Procedures"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Open Strategy, Disruptive Innovation, Business Model
ALUMNI 2022
Jonathan David Schöps
"Visual Fashion Performances in Digital Environments"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Consumer Culture Theory, Fashion Consumption, Body Aesthetics, Digital Methods
ALUMNI 2022
Stephanie Kogler
"Brand Assemblages in Digital Environments"
Title of Thesis
Research Interests: Consumer Culture Theory, Brands, Fashion Consumption, Instagram, Visual Methods, Digital Media
Application
As a menber you can...
- participate in workshops, courses and guest lectures
- discuss your work with peers and faculty
- apply for a dissertation fellowship from the University of Innsbruck's Young Researchers Program
- access funding for research trips & writing weeks
- profit from the international networks of the faculty
- join the DC regulars` table
Prospective and current PhD students interested in our Doctoral College #OrganizingtheDigital are cordially invited to apply by sending your application to epos@uibk.ac.at. Applications are accepted year-round and reviewed on a bi-annual basis.
Your application should include
- letter of intent (1p)
- CV
- short dissertation proposal (2-5pp)
Timeline
The Doctoral College #OrganizingtheDigital is an interdisciplinary discourse space for highly qualified young researchers and experienced faculty.
Theorizing the Digital Course
Summer Term 2025
Course Objectives: This course is designed to develop well-founded knowledge and transdisciplinary perspectives on digitization as well as foster the exchange among participants regarding their PhD projects. We will critically reflect and discuss papers that examine “the digital” from various angles and offer PhD candidates the possibility to discuss their project with the other students and the DP faculty.
The main objective of the course is to equip students with a transdisciplinary lens on digital phenomena and to establish a common basis of knowledge among the participants of the doctoral program #OrganizingtheDigital. Moreover, the specific setting of this course allows participants and faculty members of the DP to share knowledge, insights, develop a common interest and collective identity.
Course Dates: 11.3., 1.4., 8.4., 29.4., 6.5., 20.5. and 4.6. - all details can be found here.
Old syllabi:
Digital Methods Course
Course Objectives and Content
Topics covered include collecting and analyzing data using digital methods and web scraping, data wrangling, and visualizing data. A specific emphasis will be placed on mixed-method approaches that combine digital and computational methods, such as network analysis and computational content analysis, with more traditional approaches such as digital ethnography and qualitative content analysis. We will also discuss the benefits and limitations of digital data and digital methods, as well as research ethics perspectives related to digital datasets.
Methods: The course includes practical hands-on workshops on selected methods and tools that can be experimented with without coding skills and complements them with exercises to help participants to explore the potential method combinations for their own research topics.
Course Objectives and Content
This course will guide students through a framework for creating conceptually congruent research designs to answer meaningful questions about what is happening in online conversations (Paulus & Wise, 2019). Participants will learn how to use qualitative data analysis software as the primary tool for their digital research workflow. Using their own data or a provided dataset, participants will identify an object of interest for investigation; recognize philosophical and theoretical assumptions that impact research design; create focused and relevant research questions; ensure methodological alignment across aspects of the study design; resolve ethical dilemmas; extract and transform “big data” into a coherent dataset for closer, qualitative analysis; analyze data using thematic, narrative and discursive techniques; and establish the quality of the findings.
Learning Philosophy and Format: The course will include a combination of mini-lecture, large- and small-group discussion activities as well as hands-on analytic work. Students will be able to tailor activities to their own research interests and/or a dataset will be provided.
The full information and a schedule can be found in the Syllabus.
Winter Term 2021/2022
Course Objectives and Content: The course will provide an introduction to linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) in R. It will start by discussing the linear model. An important topic in LMMs are contrasts, which provide the way to encode hypotheses about factors in linear (mixed effects) models. Therefore, the course will provide a detailed discussion of contrast coding, and will introduce a powerful way to encode any linear hypotheses about factors into contrasts by using the generalised matrix inverse, which can be easily implemented using the R package hypr. The course will also cover the coding of covariates (i.e., continuous predictor variables). Based on the knowledge about contrasts, the second day will provide an introduction to the LMM, it will discuss fixed effects and variance components, and how they can be estimated in R using the lmer function. Moreover, we will treat the important question of how variance components and correlation parameters can be selected to achieve parsimonious LMMs. In case there is interest and enough time, we can moreover discuss power analyses for LMMs using the design R package.
The full information can be found in theSyllabus.
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Schad Daniel Schad is University Professor for quantitativ methods at the Health and Medical University Potsdam. His three main interests are in methods, in lower- and higher-level processes in reading, and in computational psychiary / decision-making. https://danielschad.github.io/index.html https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Schad danieljschad@gmail.com
Winter Term 2020/2021
Course Objectives and Content: The course aims to provide participants with a theoretical and methodological toolkit enabling them to understand our digital consumer societies. The course contains a social-sciences informed discussion of algorithms, datafication & platformization as well as epistemological discussions on the use of digital data for doing consumer research. Furthermore, it will link the theoretical part with practical work with creative digital methods. This includes data collection and analysis using a combination of quantitative (network analysis with Gephi, automated content analysis with KH Coder) and qualitative interpretive methods (visual content analysis, semiotic, and discourse analysis). It will be a online combination of Lecture, Discussion, hands-on exercises.
The reading list can be found in the Syllabus.
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Joonas Rokka Joonas Rokka is Professor of Marketing and the Director of Lifestyle Research Center at the EM Lyon Buisinnes School. His research is on branding, consumer experience, lifestyle, digital media, and creative visual research. https://twitter.com/jccnas Homepage rokka@em-lyon.com
Massimo Airoldi, PhD Assistant Professor EM Lyon Business School Massimo AIROLDI is Assistant Professor of Digital Marketing and holds a PhD in Sociology and Methodology from the University of Milan. His main research interests are: digital research methods, consumer behaviour, social media platforms and Big Data. He also is an active member of the Lifestyle Research Centre. https://twitter.com/massimoairoldi Homepage airoldi@em-lyon.com
Winter Term 2019/2020
Course Objectives and Content: This course is designed to enable students to situate Digital Methods historically and epistemologically. Furthermore, students will acquire the ability to practically use digital methods and to critically evaluate its ethical implications.
The course opens with a discussion of how to repurpose digital "methods of the medium" for social and cultural scholarly research, including its limitations, critiques and ethics. Subsequently participants are trained in using digital methods in hands-on sessions. How to use crawlers for dynamic URL sampling and issue network mapping? How to employ scrapers to create a bias or partisanship diagnostic instrument? We also consider how to deploy online platforms for social research. How to transform Wikipedia from an online encyclopedia to a device for cross-cultural memory studies? How to make use of social media so as to profile the preferences and tastes of politicians’ friends, and also locate most engaged with content? How to make use of Twitter analytics to debanalize tweets, and provide compelling accounts of events on the ground? Finally, the course turns to the question of employing web data and metrics as societal indices more generally.
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Richard Rogers Richard Rogers is University Professor and holds the Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is also Director of the Govcom.org Foundation (Amsterdam) and the Digital Methods Initiative. https://twitter.com/richardrogers www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/o/r.a.rogers/r.a.rogers.html R.A.Rogers@uva.nl
Reading List:
- Richard Rogers (2013): Digital Methods In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than about social media use? Rogers proposes repurposing Web-native techniques for research into cultural change and societal conditions. We can learn to reapply such “methods of the medium” as crawling and crowd sourcing, PageRank and similar algorithms, tag clouds and other visualizations; we can learn how they handle hits, likes, tags, date stamps, and other Web-native objects. By “thinking along” with devices and the objects they handle, digital research methods can follow the evolving methods of the medium. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-methods
- Richard Rogers (2019): Doing Digital Methods Teaching the concrete methods needed to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our time, this is the essential guide to the state of the art in researching the natively digital. With explanation of context and techniques and a rich set of case studies, Richard Rogers teaches you how to: · Build a URL list to discover internet censorship· Transform Google into a research machine to detect source bias· Make Twitter API outputs comprehensible and tell stories· Research Instagram to locate ‘hashtag publics’· Extract and fruitfully analyze Facebook posts, images and video https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/doing-digital-methods/book261134
Contact
Research Area EPoS Economy, Politics & Society
Coordinator: Dr. Eva Zipperle-Mirwald
Room o.1.3 | Universitätsstraße 15 | A-6020 Innsbruck
Phone: +43 512 507-39870
E-Mail: epos@uibk.ac.at
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