Enabler: Ubiquitous availability

The growing threat of ransomware attacks – current trends and challenges

Ransomware encrypts data and extorts money for its release. Thanks to better technology and digital payments, these globally lucrative and difficult-to-trace attacks are on the rise.

Data leaks – IT security gaps and the impact on data protection

IT security vulnerabilities are often the cause of data protection incidents and raise questions: Should security vulnerabilities be kept secret? Do manufacturers have to provide patches and end users have to install them?

Hate speech in social media

Hate speech on social media contributes to social division and the escalation of conflicts. Platforms change the dynamics of hate speech and make this form of digital violence particularly explosive.

Podcasts

Podcasts are more than just digital audio files: they stand for a flexible, individual reception experience and enrich the media landscape with creative and participative formats.

Virtual forest bathing: Can virtual reality applications promote well-being?

Discover how virtual forest bathing can promote well-being through virtual reality applications.

Legal tech – automation of legal activities

Legal tech enables the automation of legal activities through the use of software. The article shows how legal tech makes traditional legal activities more efficient and creates new fields of activity.

The future of university exams: ChatGPT and the era of e-exams

Electronic exams and AI: opportunity for better exams or devaluation of higher education?

Digital afterlife – an ethical consideration of the digital afterlife industry

The digital afterlife industry offers avatars for a digital afterlife. The simulation of the deceased raises ethical questions with regard to mourning and remembering in data-economic contexts.

Mixed reality in vocational education and training

Mixed reality (MR) is also increasingly being used in education and training, but important technological and pedagogical (design) decisions must be made in order to achieve sustainable training success.

Digital communities

Digital communities are based on algorithmically mediated social relationships in digital space. They enable flexible participation and intensive interaction and thus represent a new dimension of communitization.