media

  • Young Citizen Scientists against Disinformation

    A couple of Instagram stories here a TikTok video there: The pervasiveness of our everyday lives with more and more media content consumed in a short period of time has completely changed the way we access and deal with information: Due to their everyday use of and the strong fusion of their lives with social media, it is young people who are most affected by this development. The project “Young Citizen Scientists against Disinformation” aims to explore the topic of disinformation from...

  • Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1920-1934" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • Hero

    • Project lead: Isabel Höppchen, MSc.
    • Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für digitale Gesundheit und Prävention
    • Lindhofstraße 22, 5020 Salzburg
    • + 43 (0) 57255 82715
    • Topic: Health, Media
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://dhp.lbg.ac.at/hero-das-herz-reha-informationstool/?lang=en
    DESIGNING AN INFORMATION TOOL FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATIONBackgroundPrevious research has shown that after an acute cardiac event, such as a heart attack, patients can feel uninformed about the follow-up care and cardiac rehabilitation. Digital technologies have the potential to make health-related information available at any time and in a layman-friendly manner.The aim of the project was to develop a digital prototype that provides patients with information regarding cardiac rehabilitation...

  • Everyday Morality

    • Project lead: Verena Aignesberger
    • University of Innsbruck
    • Universitätsstraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 (0)512 507-56033
    • Topic: Politics, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/fachbereiche/sozialpsychologie/moral-im-alltag/
    What is this project about?How can good people do bad things? How can people act contrary to their moral beliefs without having a bad conscience? White lies, rule bending, finding excuses for our own behaviour, which we would judge others for … To be honest, we have all done stuff like that. Nobody is always 100 % moral - misconduct spans from little untruths to refined fraud, from omission of some facts to crimes. All these things have one thing in common: When performing these actions, the...

  • Zeit.shift

    • Project lead: Silvia Gstrein
    • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
    • Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 512 507 25400
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/
    Offers active beyond the duration of Zeit.shiftThe Zeit.shift project ended in June 2023. The central web offerings continue to be active beyond the project duration. Specifically, the results can be followed via the website. The newly generated web portal is accessible worldwide and the text material provided (several million newspaper pages) is searchable and downloadable. Geodata and content tags can be assigned via an external platform and the online game Ötzit! is freely available...

  • Categories to come

    • Project lead: Johanna Barnbeck
    • Topic: Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: discussing, writing, translating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.categoriestocome.org/
    What is the project specifically about?So much hangs on just one thing - and yet words sometimes fail us. How do we talk about our bodies and the things that we need, want, and do when it comes to sex and sexual pleasure? And who do we talk to about these things? Categories to Come invites everybody to put their sexuality into words, and to discuss new words or new uses of words with other people. Goal of the project is to create a platform and gather resources, that open up so far unnamed...

  • City-Country-Child

    • Project lead: Martina Fineder und Luise Reitstätter
    • Academy of fine arts Vienna / IKL and Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History - University of Vienna, Department of Art History
    • +43 (0) 1 588 16–1150
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: http://stadt-land-kind.at/?cat=1
    An Intergenerational Ethnography on Rural Images of LongingTaking the unique photography collection of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art as its starting point, the research project “Stadt-Land-Kind” (City-Country-Child) investigated the myth of a “better life in the countryside” from an intergenerational perspective. In dialogue with social scientists, and in exchange with older generations of parents and grandparents, pupils conducted research into prevailing urban/rural...

  • Update Social

    Update Social
    • Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
    • Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
    • Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
    • Topic: Health, Disasters, Politics, Economy, Media, Language
    • Activity: identifying, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://updatesocial.org
    With your ideas towards a innovative social sector for all Our society is facing numerous social challenges and the public administration, charities & social service providers, civil society and (social) enterprises are already working to solve them. In the face of increasingly complex challenges, there is a need for more collaboration and dialogue across sectors. Together we can achieve more! UpdateSocial is designed to provide the framework for collaboration!In all sectors of our...

  • Influencer Communication for Youth Health

    Influencer Communication for Youth Health
    • Project lead: Raffael Heiss
    • MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®
    • Universitaetsstrasse 15, Innsbruck, Österreich
    • +43 512 2070-7432
    • Topic: Food, Health, Media
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, writing
    • Project link: https://www.hism-fwf.com/
    (INCO)In this project, young people work closely with researchers to develop ideas for social media campaigns for health promotion. They share their experiences and design first concepts. Selected campaigns are tested in experimental studies, evaluated, and thoroughly discussed with the participants.What are the aims of the project?The project aims to develop new ideas for health promotion on social media together with young people. Students are not only asked for their opinions...

  • HealthCheckR

    HealthCheckR
    • Projektleitung: Ursula Griebler
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
    • Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems
    • +43 2732 893-2914
    • Thema: Gesundheit, Medien
    • Aktivität: bewerten, diskutieren, schreiben, experimentieren
    • Teilnahme: Teilnahme offen
    • Projekt-Link: https://www.healthcheckr.at
    Vertrauenswürdige Gesundheitsinfos auf Social Media erkennenIm Projekt HealthCheckR entwickeln wir gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen ein Werkzeug, um verlässliche Gesundheitsinformationen auf Social Media erkennen zu können. So wollen wir Fehlinformationen entgegenwirken und gute Entscheidungen für die eigene Gesundheit unterstützen.Was sind die Ziele des Projektes?Ziel des Projekts ist es, gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen ein einfach verständliches und geprüftes Werkzeug zu entwickeln, mit...

  • HealthCheckR

    HealthCheckR
    • Project lead: Ursula Griebler
    • University for Continuing Education Krems
    • Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems
    • +43 2732 893-2914
    • Topic: Health, Media
    • Activity: discussing, writing, experimenting
    • Project link: https://www.healthcheckr.at
    Identifying trustworthy health information on social mediaIn the HealthCheckR project, we are working with citizens to create a simple tool that helps people find trustworthy health information on social media. This will help stop false information and support better health decisions.What are the goals of the project?The goal of the project is to develop an easy-to-understand and tested tool together with citizens that helps identify whether health information on social media is...

  • Humane PapilloWAS?

    • Project lead: Magdalena Meikl
    • Fachhochschule Salzburg
    • Urstein Sued 1, 5412 Puch / Salzburg
    • +43 50 2211 1411
    • Topic: Health, Media
    • Activity: measuring, rating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://hpvwissen.fh-salzburg.ac.at/
    In order to find out how information about HPV needs to be prepared to reach the target groups, we are working together with parents, teachers and students in the project “Humane PapilloWAS?” to reveal what is known about HPV and which misinformation is circulating.BackgroundOnly 46% of the population in Austrian are aware about human papilloma viruses, or HPV, and only 34% associate HPV with cancer. This shows that there are gaps in the population's knowledge of a virus that almost...

  • Salon of Open Secrets

    Salon of Open Secrets
    • Project lead: Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia J. Reis
    • Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    • Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien
    • 06601412419
    • Topic: Media, Culture, Waste, Gender, Living together
    • Activity: Online game, discussing, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: http://www.salonofopensecrets.at/
    It is an open secret that hardware operating on our smart devices contains not only plastic, but also conflict materials such as tungsten, tin, tantulum and gold. Technology is therefore not neutral. These resources are mined in conflict regions, assembled to electric circuits under harmful labour conditions and mostly ending up in contaminating landfills. This pollution is best understood as an enactment of ongoing colonial relations to Land. Arts-based research methods...

  • U3Green

    • Project lead: Sabine Hennig
    • Fachbereich für Geoinformatik - Z_GIS - Universität Salzburg
    • Schillerstraße 30, 5020 Salzburg, Österreich
    • +43 (0)662 8044-7590
    • Topic: Media, Land use
    • Activity: locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://u3green-zgis.hub.arcgis.com/
    Promotion of child and youth-friendly urban landscapes through participatory research on urban green The development of child- and youth-friendly cities is becoming increasingly important due to the deteriorating quality of life in urban areas. An important contribution to this relates to the provision of urban green suitable for young people and their involvement in the future design of urban landscapes. However, it must be taken into account that children and the youth make demands on urban...