DITES – Digital Technologies and Social Services

Interdisciplinary Research Center
TH Köln

Campus Südstadt
Sachsenring 2-4
50677 Cologne
T: +49 221-8275-3170
E: dites@th-koeln.de

Theses, term papers & doctorate

We offer you the opportunity to write your paper in cooperation with our members.
Contact us!

Director Research Center

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Applied Social Sciences
Institute of Media Research and Media Education

  • Campus Südstadt
    Ubierring 48
    50678 Köln
  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334

Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Applied Social Sciences
Institute of Media Research and Media Education

  • Technische Hochschule Köln
    Sachsenring 2-4
    50677 Köln
  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170

DITES | Members of the Research Centre

We investigate the phenomena of digitalization, informatization and mediatization in the diverse fields of social services, develop scenarios for a realistic application of digital technologies and contribute newly gained knowledge, but also questions and challenges to the scientific, political and public discourse.

Head of department

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Main research focus: Participatory technology design, digital technologies in media education and social work, e-learning concepts, technology assessment from a media education perspective

  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334


Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Research areas: hybrid value creation (initiation, design and implementation of cross-corporate innovation projects); behavioural change in service design systems via design; taxonomies of co-creation

  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170


Members

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bente

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bente

Research areas: software and enterprise architectures for complex, socio-technical systems, the field of e-Government; slim and agile architecture management for such systems; collaborative approaches

  • Room 1708
  • Phone: +49 2261-8196-6367
Prof. Dr. Babette Brinkmann

Prof. Dr. Babette Brinkmann

Research areas: holistic management and new working environment
Areas of teaching: organizational and group psychology

  • Room 335
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3475


Prof. Dr. Amelie Duckwitz

Prof. Dr. Amelie Duckwitz

Research areas: Social Media, User Experience and Transcultural Communication

  • Room B5.425
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3873


    Prof. Dr. Christian Kohls

    Prof. Dr. Christian Kohls

    Research areas: socio-technical design patterns (e-learning, educational patterns etc.), community design and participatory design methods; application development for group innovation processes

    • Room 1.117
    • Phone: +49 2261-8196-6353
    Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Lindner

    Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Lindner

    Research areas: system-theoretical analysis of human factors in business processes (cybernetics, business analytics, human resources und process-simulation to measure intangible values, etc.)

    • Room 104
    • Phone: +49 221-8275-3427


    Prof. Dr. Petra Werner

    Prof. Dr. Petra Werner

    Research areas: editorial concepts and strategies for digital media; usability; media usage and reception

    • Room 430
    • Phone: +49 221-8275-3373
    Prof. Dr. Ivonne Preusser

    Prof. Dr. Ivonne Preusser

    Research areas: Customer emotions & employee engagement, customer-centered corporate management, leadership, corporate culture / customer climate

    • Phone: +49 221-8275-3850


    Dr. Philip Roth

    Dr. Philip Roth

    Research areas: Organization, digitalization & inequality research, transformation of collaboration, formation & impact of relationship networks, methods of empirical social research

    • Room 211
    • Phone: +49 221-8275-5432


    Prof. Birgit Mager

    Research areas: hybrid value creation (initiation, design and implementation of cross-corporate innovation projects); behavioural change in service design systems via design; taxonomies of co-creation

    • Phone: +49 221-8275-3220

    Dan Zhu



    Associated Members


    Portraitfoto

    Baptiste Egelhaaf M.A.

    Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences: Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
    Bielefeld University: Faculty of Social Sciences

    • Phone: +49 211-4351-3430
    Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann

    Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann

    • Room A1.50
    • Phone: +49 221-8275-3446


    Prof. Dr. jur. Claus Richter

    University of Applied Sciences Potsdam: Professor of law with a focus on civil law, in particular family law and child and youth welfare law

    • Room Haus 5 | Raum 008
    • Phone: +49 331580-4149

    Prof. Dr. phil. Udo Seelmeyer

    University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld: Faculty of Social Work, Department of Social Work Science

    • Room B 231
    • Phone: +49 521-106-70542


    Dr. Scarlett La Shea Schaffrath (ehem. Siebert)

    VDI/VDE-IT GmbH | Wissenschaftliche Beraterin



    Student Associates

    SHK PB

    Maja Hermes

    Student assistant for Philip Roth and Anna Schelling. If you have any questions or comments about the website, please contact me.



DITES – Digital Technologies and Social Services

Interdisciplinary Research Center
TH Köln

Campus Südstadt
Sachsenring 2-4
50677 Cologne
T: +49 221-8275-3170
E: dites@th-koeln.de

Theses, term papers & doctorate

We offer you the opportunity to write your paper in cooperation with our members.
Contact us!

Director Research Center

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn

Applied Social Sciences
Institute of Media Research and Media Education

  • Campus Südstadt
    Ubierring 48
    50678 Köln
  • Room 224
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3334

Research Coordination

Anna Schelling

Anna Schelling

Applied Social Sciences
Institute of Media Research and Media Education

  • Technische Hochschule Köln
    Sachsenring 2-4
    50677 Köln
  • Room R211
  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3170


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