Covid-19 once again made it clear what opportunities digitization offers – at the same time, old and new limits became visible. Which individual competencies and skills will be indispensable in the future to be able to participate in a world shaped by digitality and to lead a self-determined life? Since the turn of the millennium, more and more considerations have arisen in this regard, which are summarized under terms such as media competence, digital competence or digital literacy. Classically, these topics are seen in the field of media education, while computer science is assigned the instrumental view, which seems to deal purely with the technological implementation of digital technologies. Yet computer science, especially human-computer interaction, is also concerned with user experiences, cultural strategies, and practices touched by digital transformation. “Digital literacy” is thus of particular interest to many research fields and can be approached from just as many perspectives. This workshop therefore invites interdisciplinary exchange and aims to collect and classify existing research findings and discussions that have emerged at the intersections of different disciplines on the topics of digital skills, media literacy and digital competence.
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The workshop will be held as part of the GI Annual Conference INFORMATIK 2021, registration via the conference website is required. The workshop language is German. Papers can be submitted in both English and German and are subject to peer review. Accepted papers are expected to appear in the proceedings of the Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) series.
The workshop is hosted by the DiMediCa project. This is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 01JD1802A/B.
