“2 Minuten Wissen”: Can digital maps provide safety?
The format “2 Minuten Wissen” presents exciting projects and research areas of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology. The DHSS is represented with a contribution by Dominik Kremer and Sabine Lang, which asks whether detailed digital maps of gang activity and shootings can give residents a sense of security in their daily lives. A study and digital data analysis from the digital humanities were used to answer this question. Thanks to the “2 Minuten Wissen” team for hosting us and for the great design of the video!
You can watch the result here (in German):
We talked about the following publication: Moura de Souza, C.; Kremer, D.; Walker, B.B. Placial-Discursive Topologies of Violence: Volunteered Geographic Information and the Reproduction of Violent Places in Recife, Brazil. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.2022, 11, 500. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11100500
You can find out more about exciting research into the relationship between digitality and society in our degree programs:
- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (B.A.), which can be completed without admission as a first or second subject,
- as well as the module course Digital Humanities.
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