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Editorial
The
scientific-publication-series e-Culture was founded at the beginning of
the year 2004 by the initiative of the International Network on Cultural
Diversity and New Media (CultMedia). The concern of the international
network is the analysis of changes in cultural practices (such as usage
patterns, usage motivations and usage situations) that are related to
the application of digital and interactive media. The change in the
media landscape is considered in the context of changed forms of
communication, new technological application options, the realignment of
media institutions and media content. The rapid development and
diffusion of network-based communication in particular is leading to a
comprehensive cultural change in all areas of society. This expresses
itself in cultural trends and metaphors, such as the mediatisation of
the everyday world and the globalisation of cultural communication and
perception. It is also based on individual dimensions of maturity,
responsibility and of action. The corresponding field of research must
deal with the topic from different perspectives, that being different
specialist disciplines.
The interdisciplinary CultMedia-network
promotes research on these developments from the perspective of
philosophy and cultural studies, of psychology and social science, of
educational science as well as communication and information science.
The research is always focussing on the question of how to assess the
possibilities and effects of digital media, their technologies and
infrastructures, with regard to new forms of information, communication
and cooperation in the field of everyday culture.
The scientific series e-Culture serves to
document and present research results concerning the tension between the
so-called New Media on the one hand, and Culture on the other. It
represents an interdisciplinary space of discourse for those who are
working in this field.
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The 28th volume of
the scientific series e-Culture Digitisation and Transformation -
Society, Technology, Education contains contributions from the
international CultMedia conference in Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic,
which was carried out under the patronage of the German Embassy in Santo
Domingo at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) from 13 to
15 November 2019. It was held on the main topic of global transformation
processes driven by digitisation with a large audience at various
locations of the UASD. The choice of the Dominican Republic as
conference venue represents an important step for the
internationalization process of the network, as it was its first
conference in Latin America. In reaction to the initiative of conference
organizer Prof. Dr. Andrés Merejo (UASD), the Dominican Republic was
carefully selected in order to establish and develop the international
research relations of the network, as well as to support the academic
and cultural exchanges between two continents: Europe and Latin America.
Regarding the conference topic, its goal was
to continue and broaden the reflections of the CultMedia conference held
in Prague in 2018 on the subject of Industry 4.0, Culture 2.0 and the
New Media - Realities, Tendencies, Myths. The main research questions of
the year 2020 were the following: How does digitisation shape current
human relationships and actions? What are the interconnections between
economy, politics and education within the meta-process of digitisation
and what are the effects on society? Accordingly, the conference was
characterized by considerations concerning increasing digitisation,
globalisation and diversification of culture, economy and science.
Especially the processes of communication and collaboration between
individuals, machines, production systems, companies and institutions
using data acquisition, data processing and data output processes were
analysed from intercultural and culture specific perspectives. These
were discussed as a technical, technological, economic, social,
political, cultural and educational opportunity and, at the same time,
as a serious challenge for the global competitiveness in economy,
industry and society.
The contributions in this 28th volume of the
scientific series e-Culture, which were discussed during the conference,
underline the complexity of the topic in many ways, and, especially from
diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives.
The editors in January 2021
Björn Egbert, Julius Erdmann and Andrés
Merejo
Content
Editorial 7
Foreword by the
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Santo Domingo 9
Volker Pellet
Introduction 11
Björn Egbert, Julius Erdmann and Andrés
Merejo
The Human Being in
the World of Smart Working: Industry 4.0 17
Nicanor Ursua
‘Industry 4.0’ – Expectations and Development
in Germany. A Technology Assessment Point of View 27
Gerhard Banse
Revolution 4.0 – A Step in the Right or Wrong
Direction? 41
Xabier Insausti Ugarriza
The Hermeneutics and
the Digital Turn of Culture 53
Edickson Minaya
Technologies 4.0 and Functional Diversity. A
Social Model for Augmented Functionality 63
Roberto Feltrero & Mario Toboso
Globalisation of Media Technology and of
Media Culture. General remarks and insights 77
Julius Erdmann
Goals and Realities of Teacher Education
Concerning Industry 4.0 93
Björn Egbert
List of Authors 105
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