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Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S)Eschersheimer Landstraße 121
60322 Frankfurt am Main
verstaendig@c3s.uni-frankfurt.de
ORCID: 0000-0002-1973-3277
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Prof. Dr. Dan Verständig
Dan Verständig is Professor of Educational Theory and Practices of Critical Computational Literacy at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S), Goethe University Frankfurt. His research addresses learning in the context of digitality, with a focus on inequality, civic participation, and creative-critical approaches to coding and data literacy. He is a founding member of the Critical Big Data and Algorithmic Literacy Network (CBDALN) and works with experimental formats such as interactive installations, data-driven art, and playful methods to make digital infrastructures visible and reflect on their societal implications. He also advises NGOs on digital literacy and information security.
Prior to joining C³S, Dan Verständig was Professor for Media Pedagogy at Bielefeld University and later worked at the Technical University of Berlin, after earlier positions on education in the digital world at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. He earned his PhD in Education there with a dissertation on education and the structural change of the public sphere in the light of digital mediality. Alongside his academic work, Dan worked for over ten years as a full-stack developer, focusing on secure infrastructures and workflow optimization for e-commerce platforms.
Topics:
- Educational Theory
- Critical Computational Literacy
- Creative Technologies
- Digital Inequality and civic participation
Methods:
- Qualitative and theoretical analysis of digital infrastructures
- Experimental pedagogical and research formats (e.g. interactive installations, data-driven art projects, playful methods)
- Creative, practice-based approaches to coding literacy
- Interdisciplinary integration of educational theory, media theory, and critical data studies
- Critical Code Studies as Educational Inquiry
- Critical Prompting (together with Juliane Engel and Christoph Burchard)
Please find a complete list of publications on ORCID.
- Rita Eperjesi, M.A.,
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- 01/26 – 07/29: Questions about explainable technology WIKO within the Collaborative Research Center TRR318. Funded by DFG.
- 11/25 – 10/28: SKILL: AI Imaginaries and Education: Co-creative Approaches to Digital Education in joint project Serious Games for AI and Privacy Literacy in Schools together with Prof. Dr. Ina Schiering (Ostfalia), Codenauten and datenschutz Nord GmbH. Plattform Privatheit. Funded by BMFTR.
- 04/24 – 03/25: Evaluation of #DigitalCheckNRW in collaboration with the association for Media Education, Media Literacy and Communication Culture (registered, non-profit organisation). Funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- 07/23 – 10/25: Evidence-based and culture of digitality in the LFB-labs-digital (MINT cluster) joint project of the learning:digital competence network.
- 08/23 – 03/25: Creative technologies and digital education in the ComeArts network (art and music cluster) of the learning:digital competence network.
- 02/24 – 12/25: Visualizing Uncertainty: Exploration project in cooperation with project B05 and WIKO within the Collaborative Research Center TRR318. Funded by DFG.
- 01/20 – 03/21: Coding Literacy, Practices & Cultures. Cooperation with Rita Eperjesi, M.Sc., M.A. and Prof. Dr. Angela Brennecke at Film University KONRAD WOLF Potsdam Babelsberg.
- 02/19 – 03/20: Overcoming digital boundaries: Practices of late modernity between creativity and exploration. Joint collaboration with Dr. phil. Florian Krückel (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg).