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Your Journey of Reflection and Empowerment in the Digital Age
What is digital positionality?
Digital positionality is like having a unique GPS for your position in and perception of the interconnected world we live in today. It helps to determine your success or challenges in how you navigate this new reality of the digital age and your ability to improve your life chances amid planetary, societal, and technological structures. Picture the world as a puzzle with three interconnected dimensions: The Earth, The Social World, and The Digital World. Each dimension adds unique puzzle pieces to your digital positionality, influencing how you perceive and interact with the world.
Embrace Awareness and Take Control of Your Life: As you start to map out your own digital positionality, you’ll discover various relative opportunities and challenges in each dimension. Some puzzle pieces may grant you privileges, while others may pose obstacles to overcome. But the exciting part is that your digital positionality is not fixed; it’s a dynamic interplay of you as a person and these three dimensions. Through continuous learning, transformation, and engagement, you have the power to shape your own life chances with self-determination over time.
Understand How Technology Empowers or Limits Us: Digital positionality isn’t just a tool; it’s a lens revealing the ties between the structures of the three vital dimensions of our existence: the earth, the social world, and the digital realm. Understanding these links and their history can break the looping cycle of exploitation we find ourselves in, leading us to a future where progress and equity align.
Discover a treasure trove of knowledge and tools that will empower you to navigate the digital landscape with confidence. Check out our Resources section, where you’ll find our reflexivity tools and comic to help you on your quest for digital self-determination.
Meet the passionate team of student co-researchers behind this project and learn about our mission, values, and journey. Head over to our About Us section to get to know the faces behind Digital Positionality and the story that brought us here.
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Past
- Workshop, 28.09.2023 STUFO Hamburg: Digitale Positionalität und Ermächtigung: Reise in eine gerechte digitale Zukunft
- Presentation, 25.09.2023 Berlin Conference for Student Research 2023: Panel „Personal Landscapes: Influence of Emotions, Attitudes and Positionality on Individuals and Society“ – Unveiling Digital Positionality: Empowering Netizens in the Digital Age
- Presentation, 20.09.2023 Digitalization for Sustainability Transformations: Critical Perspectives, Lessons Learned, and Future Prospects, International Interdisciplinary Conference: Panel “Steering the digital and sustainability transition” – Digital Positionality: Empowering Netizens to Navigate ICT for a Sustainable and Just Future
- Workshop, 06.09.2023 Diverse Infrastructures? Gender, Queer & The Foundations of Society, 3rd Vienna Workshop on STEM: Workshop – Digital Positionality: Navigating Digital Landscapes Through Reflexivity
- Presentation 04.04.2023 WorldCUR – BCUR 2023 at Warwick: Digital Positionality: Designing a Qualitative Map Toward Epistemic Justice from the Bottom-Up
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