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Mit dem als E-Health bezeichneten Technologiebündel werden für die Organisation Krankenhaus umfassende Transformationen von Geschäftsmodellen und Arbeit anvisiert. Die diskutierten arbeitspolitischen Implikationen auf Qualifikationen und Arbeitsweisen von Ärztinnen und Ärzten schwanken dabei zwischen optimistischen Diagnosen neuer Behandlungsmöglichkeiten und pessimistischen Prognosen über Deprofessionalisierung. Demgegenüber betont der Beitrag die organisationale Verhandelbarkeit des Technikeinsatzes im Krankenhaus. Auf Grundlage qualitativer Interviews mit technischen Entscheiderinnen und Entscheidern sowie Ärztinnen und Ärzten in einem Universitätskrankenhaus und durch Ansätze machttheoretischer Professionstheorien und der Labor Process Theory wird sowohl die (konfliktive) Aushandlung der aktuellen Digitialisierungstechnologien als auch die unterschiedlichen Legitimations- und Einflussstrategien dieser Akteure am Beispiel des digitalen Arztbriefes rekonstruiert. Damit kann nachgezeichnet werden, dass mit der Einführung des digitalen Arztbriefes als Schlüsseltechnologie der E-Health-Strategien eine Unterminierung ärztlicher Handlungsmonopole über den Prozess der Gesundheitsversorgung angestrebt wird - sich diese aber nicht ungebrochen über das ärztliche Professionsinteresse hinwegsetzen kann. The technological bundle known as E-Health aims at a comprehensive transformation of business models and labor processes within hospitals. The discussed implications for qualifications and the work of doctors vary between optimistic diagnoses of new treatment possibilities and pessemistic forceasts involving deprofessionalization. In contrast, this article emphasizes the negotiability of how technology is used in the hospital. Drawing on qualitative interviews with technical decision makers and doctors at a university hospital as well as applying power approaches of a sociology of professions and the Laboor Process Theory, the article attempts to understand the (conflictive) negotiation of current digital technologies as well as different strategies of legitimation and gaining influence of these professional actors. We do this by reconstructing the use of the doctor’s digital letter. It can thus be shown that the introduction of the doctor's digital letter as a key technology in EHealth srategies is intended to undermine doctors' monopoly regarding the healthcare process. Equally, though, we demonstrate that it cannot override the professional interest of them.

Modelling a 3D city poses an interesting challenge. To create a virtual city, a road pattern has to be designed and a large number of buildings need to be generated. Every urban place has a road network, often a superimposed pattern plan that serves a population density and buildings which follow statutory rules. This patterned behaviour of the city is why it is possible to develop rules or “computational instructions,” to generate city models. In this article, we are going to discuss how to use procedural modelling and CityEngine, a rule-based application commonly used in the movie industry and gaming to produce vast realistic cityscapes, for regional and urban planning via an urban analytics approach. Unlike cinema’s imaginary worlds, cities have real-life population dependencies that need to be modelled for the development of planning scenarios. The goal is then to use the generative properties of the procedural modelling approach, along with population prediction models, to create informed 3D city scenarios. Instead of designing solutions, the user can use interactive parameters to affect the 3D model globally, thus enabling virtual cities to become active simulators for planning. Using urban analytics and generative environments, procedural cities may be able to create a “teaser” of different versions of how the city would look like in the future.

In this editorial linked to the thematic issue on “Gaming, Simulations, and Planning: Physical and Digital Technologies for Public Participation in Urban Planning,” we explore how urban planning has been, arguably, slow on the uptake of modern technologies and the move towards the next media revolution: The Metaverse is now on the horizon. By artfully pushing technological, cultural, and social boundaries in creating virtual environments, games and gaming technologies have presented interesting opportunities and challenges for the planning profession, theory, and education over the years. This thematic issue documents a wide range of innovative practices in planning enabled by games and gaming technologies. It attempts to open discussions about the way we conceptualize and treat new media and technologies in planning. By providing a wide range of examples, from non-digital games to gamified systems, interactive simulations and digital games, the issue shows that the lack of adoption of these practices has less to do with their technical possibilities and more to do with the way we understand tools and their added value in the dominant narratives of planning. As we note at the end, planning should be at the forefront of these technologies, not embracing technologies for technologies sake but because it should, as a profession, be leading the way into these new environments.

South African municipal service delivery has been an area of highly debated concern, with many citizens lacking access to basic service delivery, such as water and electricity. Fast forward to the Covid-19 Pandemic, bombarding itself into every state, home and workplace and concerns over municipal service delivery has amplified. Much like Covid-19, the fourth industrial revolution too erupted into every facet of public and private life but more optimistically, so as it promises to fast track economic development, ease mundane daily tasks and improve services and systems. This article explores municipal service delivery in South Africa and its intersection with emerging technologies, further providing prospects for future application. The article relies on a qualitative approach, reviewing primary and secondary literature, such as statistics, reports and journal articles to explore how advanced and emerging technologies have been applied at a local level to improve municipal service delivery, further attempting to understand future prospects. From the findings of the study, it is evident, that protest action against municipal service delivery has escalated in the last few years, signifying possible worsening service delivery and little adaptation of new methods and technologies. However, there have been some attempts to improve service delivery, utilising emerging technologies, but much more can be done as illustrated in other states, at a local and national level

Die Verbreitung des Covid-19-Virus birgt sowohl für Gesundheitspolitik und -forschung sowie die Bevölkerung neue Herausforderungen. Als gesundheitspolitische Maßnahmen werden in dieser Zeit u.a. neue Apps beworben, die helfen sollen, die Krise zu bewältigen. Eine dieser Apps ist die durch das Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) entwickelte Corona-Datenspende-App. Auf freiwilliger Basis können durch diese App Vitaldaten an das RKI transferiert werden, die durch privat eingesetzte Fitness-Tracker generiert wurden. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Kurzstudie werden die Motive für und die Effekte von Praktiken mit dieser App analysiert. Informiert durch die Science and Technologies Studies und Ansätze des New Materialism rücken die Verschränkungen des Materiellen (u.a. Technologien, Körper) und des Diskursiven (u.a. Seuchendiskurse, Werturteile) in den Fokus. The spread of the Covid-19 virus poses new challenges for health policy and research as well as for the population. During this period, public health interventions introduce new apps to help overcome the crises. One of these apps is the Corona-Data-Donation-App developed by the Robert-Koch-Institute (RKI). Thereby, on a voluntary basis, users can donate body data generated by privately used fitness trackers. A qualitative short study analyses the motives for and effects of the practices with this app. Informed by science and technology studies and concepts of new materialism the focus will be on the entanglements of the material (e.g. technologies, bodies) and discourses (e.g. epidemic discourse, moral judgments).

The objective of this study is to determine Education in the Digital World from the lens of millennial learners. This also identifies the cybergogical implications of the issue with digital education as seen through the lens of the outlier. This study uses a mixed methods sequential explanatory design. A quantitative method was employed during the first phase and the instruments of the study were distributed using google forms. The survey received a total of 85 responses and the results were analyzed using descriptive methods. Following up with a qualitative method, during the second phase the outliers were interviewed,and the results were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results of the mixed methods were interpreted in the form of cybergogical implications. The digital education from the lens of millennial learners in terms of the Benefits of E-Learning and Students Perceptions of E Learning received an overall mean of 3.68 which was verbally interpreted as Highly acceptable. The results reveal that millennial learners perceptions of digital education are influenced by the convenience in time and location, the fruit of collaboration using online interaction, the skills and knowledge they will acquire using digital resources, and the capability of improving themselves for the future. Millennial learners were able to adopt and learned how to use e learning. Also, since it is self paced learning,it allows them to study on their own time and schedule since e learning can be accessed anytime and anywhere. However, the technological resources of the learners should be considered in the implementation of e learning., 14 pages, ICPeP, Special Issue on International Research Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology Education2023 (IRCCETE 2023), Fort Ilocandia, Ilocos Norte, Philippines, Vol. 7, pp. 1816-1829

Modeling for policy has become an integral part of policy making and technology assessment. This became particularly evident to the general public when, during the COVID-19 pandemic, forecasts of infection dynamics based on computer simulations were used to evaluate and justify policy containment measures. Computer models are also playing an increasing role in technology assessment (TA). Computer simulations are used to explore possible futures related to specific technologies, for example, in the area of energy systems analysis. Artificial intelligence (AI) models are also becoming increasingly important. The results is a mix of methods where computer simulations and machine learning converge, posing particular challenges and opening up new research questions. This Special topic brings together case studies from different fields to explore the current state of computational models in general and AI methods in particular for policy and TA. Modellierung für die Politik ist zu einem integralen Bestandteil der Politikarbeit und der Technologiebewertung geworden. Dies wurde der breiten Öffentlichkeit besonders deutlich, als während der COVID‑19‑Pandemie Prognosen über die Infektionsdynamik auf Basis von Computersimulationen zur Bewertung und Begründung politischer Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung herangezogen wurden. Computermodelle spielen auch in der Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) eine zunehmende Rolle. Mithilfe von Computersimulationen werden technologiegebundene Zukunftsperspektiven erkundet, beispielsweise im Bereich der Energiesystemanalyse. Auch Modelle der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) werden immer wichtiger. Das Ergebnis ist ein Methodenmix, bei dem Computersimulationen und maschinelles Lernen zusammentreffen, was besondere Herausforderungen mit sich bringt und neue Forschungsfragen eröffnet. Dieses TATuP Special topic bringt Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Bereichen zusammen, um den aktuellen Stand von Computermodellen im Allgemeinen und KI‑Methoden im Besonderen für Politik und TA zu untersuchen.

An unprecedented rate of technological advancement, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, has expedited our transition to a fully digitalised society. Traditionally, digital inclusion focuses on an individual's ability to connect to and access information from the internet. The adoption of novel technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain is little distinguished in the literature from internet accessibility. While these digital solutions present novel opportunities, they may also perpetuate or exacerbate the existing hurdles faced by digitally excluded localities. However, these technologies could also be used to tackle the digital divide. Inspired by the design of Bitcoin, the current study offers a conceptual blockchain-based welfare model that adopts a two-pronged approach to enable the fair distribution of capital and resource allocation across the UK regions. The model offers transparency over institutional processes and improves their trustworthiness while preserving privacy. At the community level, the model assumes the application of economic incentives in order to promote digital inclusivity and stimulate cooperation and competition within local cultures. By mobilising both public institutions and communities, such a holistic model would assist the flow of information between the supply and demand side of the regional economy. This approach may not only help to dissolve the welfare losses arising from the digital divide, but also improve social well-being in all regions.

In Britain as elsewhere, planning systems are entering a “digital turn.” However, the emerging conversations around PlanTech in policy, industry, and research yield contrasting views about the promises of digital technology and “data-driven” decisions to enhance and embed public participation in the planning system. With faster, data-driven processes capable of engaging more people in more diverse ways, PlanTech offers to revolutionise planning systems. However, empirical evidence demonstrates low citizen trust in government and web-based technologies, democratic and participatory deficits, the complexity of the planning system and its opaque technocratic terminology, multi-layered digital divides, and other socio-technical factors that hinder effective and inclusive public consultations in planning. This article provides a preliminary, high-level research agenda for public consultations across Britain’s three nations that centres around a critical pragmatic design, deployment, and evaluation of blended/“phygital” (simultaneously physical and digital) information-rich ecologies of smart engagement. A review of selected national policy in Britain provides initial insight into the emphasis (or lack of) put on the adoption of digital tools within the planning process of each British nation. In doing so, the research sets out a conceptual model that complements existing models for participatory planning by adopting Beyon-Davies’ unified conception of information, systems, and technology. The conceptual model presented sets out seven Is of information-rich phygital ecologies and three interdependent “pillars” for smart engagement that enable one to gaze both deeply and broadly into opportunities for smart engagement through and beyond PlanTech.

A wide array of consumer devices that purport to measure sleep are now available, with sleep measurement often an additional feature alongside the measurement of daily activity through steps and monitoring of heart rate. These devices offer their users insight into the duration of sleep and different sleep phases and the ability to share the outcomes in the form of numbers, charts, and graphs. This paper explores the ways in which these technologies are deployed within everyday online interactions. We explore depictions of sleep self-tracking that are commonly available online and analyse how the sleep data collected are interpreted by users and deployed in differing social interactions through a comparison of traces of the Fitbit sleep self-tracker across Twitter, Instagram, and the parenting discussion forum Mumsnet. We find that sleep self-tracking is, across platforms, occasioning new practices of evidencing sleep that acquire particular meaning within existing relationships. There is also however a strong mood of rejection, mistrust, and doubt around self-tracked sleep. The new ways of evidencing sleep sit alongside and in dialogue with previous ways of knowing sleep and of deploying it within social interactions, rather than displacing them., Historical Social Research Vol. 48, No. 2 (2023)

Mit der European Sky Shield Initiative hat Deutschland seinen Führungsanspruch bei der europäischen Luftverteidigung angemeldet. Verteidigung gemeinsam zu denken ist begrüßenswert, aber schwierig umzusetzen. Wichtige europäische Partner, allen voran Frankreich und Italien, sind derzeit nicht gewillt, Deutschland zu folgen. Die fehlende politische Einigkeit zeigt, dass der deutsche Vorstoß die europäischen Sicher­heitsinteressen nicht genug berücksichtigt, Partner nicht überzeugt und viele Fragen zur strategischen, militärischen, industriellen und ökonomischen Ebene offen lässt. Soll die ESSI Europas Schutz im Bereich Luftverteidigung spürbar ver­bes­sern, muss Berlin Antworten zum strategischen Gleichgewicht, zur Entwicklung der europäischen Rüstungsindustrie und zu militärisch sinnvollen Lösungen geben. Der Aufwuchs ein­zelner militärischer Fähigkeiten wird keinen europäischen Sky Shield ermöglichen. (Autorenreferat)

In den Debatten um Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz und das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine nehmen Vertreter:innen des Transhumanismus immer wieder radikale Positionierungen ein und sind somit wichtige und nicht selten provokante Akteure innerhalb des technikfuturistischen Diskurses. Während es in der For- schung zahlreiche ideologietheoretische Analysen zu den transhumanistischen Welt- anschauungen gibt, wissen wir bislang nur wenig über den organisierten Transhumanismus, also über die Vernetzung von ökonomischen Akteuren wie Tech-Firmen und Investor:innen, zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen wie Think-Tanks, Parteien und Vereinigungen sowie akademischen Akteuren wie Forschungsinstituten oder (Fach-)zeitschriften. Angesichts des immer stärker auftretenden Diskurses über soge- nannte "emerging technologies" verlangt es nach einer theoretischen und empirischen Analyse, um den Phänomenbereich ganzheitlich zu erschließen. Aufbauend auf Andreas Hepps Konzept der Pioniergemeinschaft, widmet sich diese Arbeit einer historisch-soziologischen Rekonstruktion der organisationalen Genese des Transhumanismus und zeichnet die Entwicklung einer Pioniergemeinschaft nach. In the debates about digitalization, artificial intelligence and the relationship between man and machine, representatives of transhumanism repeatedly take radical positions and are thus important and often provocative actors within the techno-futurist discourse. While there are numerous ideological-theoretical analyses of transhumanist world-views in research, we know little about organized transhumanism, i.e., about the networks of economic actors such as tech companies and investors, civil society organizations such as think tanks, political parties and associations, and academic actors such as research institutes or journal editors. In view of the increasing discourse on so-called "emerging technologies," a theoretical and empirical analysis is needed in order to holistically explore this phenomenon. Building on the concept of the pioneer community as developed by Andreas Hepp, this paper is dedicated to a historical-sociological reconstruction of the organizational genesis of transhumanism and traces the development of a pioneer community.

The aim of the paper is to review the sources of vanishing professions. There is a hypothesis formed that the reason for vanishing professions are new technologies and usage of artificial intelligence. Confirming the hypothesis gives the reason to identify consequences and risks of vanishing professions on the Polish labor market. The method used to prepare this text was a critical analysis of the literature, the conclusion of which enabled to confirm the hypothesis. Celem opracowania jest przegląd źródeł w obszarze zjawiska znikania zawodów. Sformułowano hipotezę wyjściową, zgodnie z którą przyczyną wypierania zawodów są nowe technologie oraz zastosowania sztucznej inteligencji. Wykazanie tej tezy czyni zasadnym sformułowanie hipotezy o możliwości identyfikacji konsekwencji i zagrożeń zjawiska ginących zawodów na polskim rynku pracy. Zastosowano metodę krytycznej analizy literatury, której wnioski pozwoliły na wykazanie obu hipotez.

This article provides a scientific reflection on the need for considering the issue of new technologies and their development in contemporary social policy in Poland. The article focuses on three selected areas of social policy, which are most intensively influenced by the development of new technologies: labor market policies, education policies, and telecare, including some elements of senior policies. The publication initiates further discussion on the current challenges and dilemmas faced by social policymakers. It corresponds to the specific experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic related to intensified, technologically mediated forms of communication and remote forms of using social services. It argues that rapid development of new technologies changes the goals and ways of putting social policies into practice. Drawing on theoretical assumptions of technological determinism and new institutionalism, the article aims to conclude that adequate institutional and legislative changes should be the consequence of technological changes and they should lead to greater compatibility of systemic solutions with citizens' everyday practice. Celem artykułu jest naukowa refleksja nad potrzebą uwzględnienia kwestii rozwoju nowych technologii we współczesnej polityce społecznej w Polsce. Artykuł koncentruje się na omówieniu trzech wybranych obszarów polityki społecznej, na które szczególnie intensywnie oddziałują zmiany technologiczne: polityce rynku pracy, obszarze edukacji oraz usług opiekuńczych z uwzględnieniem elementów polityki senioralnej. Publikacja inicjuje dyskusję nad aktualnymi wyzwaniami i dylematami stojącymi przed polską polityką społeczną i odwołuje się do doświadczeń pandemii związanych z intensyfikacją technologicznie zapośredniczonych form komunikacji i sposobów korzystania z usług społecznych. Argumentuje, że rozwój nowych technologii zmienia zarówno cele, jak i sposoby realizacji polityki społecznej. Czerpiąc z dorobku determinizmu technologicznego i nowego instytucjonalizmu, autorka zmierza do konkluzji, że konsekwencją zmian technologicznych powinny być adekwatne zmiany instytucjonalne i formalno-prawne zapewniające większą kompatybilność systemowych rozwiązań z codzienną praktyką życia obywateli.

Mein Positionspapier ist ein praxisbasierter Beitrag zu den im Call aufgeworfenen kritischen Fragen rund um Gender Studies, Lehre und Digitalisierung. Meine Erfahrungen bei der Durchführung einer Lehrveranstaltung an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin beschreibe und reflektiere ich anhand aktueller Empfehlungen für diskriminierungssensible (digitale) Lehre (vgl. Barbarino 2020). Dabei fokussiere ich auf die Konzeption der Lehrveranstaltung sowie deren Durchführung. Abschließend gebe ich Anregungen, wie diskriminierungssensible, digitale (Gender-)Lehre im Hochschulkontext funktionieren kann.

Städte sind heute zu Big Data-Produzentinnen geworden. Neue Technologien können diese Daten miteinander verknüpfen, was enormes Potential für die Stadtentwicklung birgt. Doch wie lassen sich diese Daten kuratieren, damit sowohl die Bürger*innen als auch die Expert*innen der Stadtentwicklung besser zusammenarbeiten können? Vanessa Weber und Gesa Ziemer unterziehen den technisch getriebenen Smart City-Diskurs einer kritischen Analyse und stellen dabei den konkreten Nutzen für die Menschen ins Zentrum ihrer Überlegungen. Sie beschreiben Praktiken des City Science Labs der HafenCity Universität Hamburg, in dem datenbasierte Werkzeuge zur Entscheidungsfindung in urbanen Reallaboren erprobt und angewendet werden, und diskutieren konkrete Beispiele.

Technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS) are transforming research fields at the methodological, conceptual, and organizational level. They open up new possibilities and bring with them new commitments and inherent limitations. We show from a philosophy of science perspective how NGS-based metagenomics has transformed microbial ecology and, with it, parts of agricultural soil science, which integrate ecological approaches with the aim to inform agricultural practices. We reconstruct agricultural science as design science (sensu Niiniluoto) and describe how the possibilities, commitments, and limitations of metagenomics approaches in microbial ecology shape values, situation assessments, and recommendations for interventions of soil microbiology in the context of sustainable agriculture. Technologien wie Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) transformieren Forschungsfelder auf der methodischen, konzeptionellen und organisatorischen Ebene. Sie eröffnen neue Möglichkeiten, bringen aber auch neue Festlegungen und inhärente Beschränkungen mit sich. Wir zeigen aus wissenschaftsphilosophischer Perspektive wie NGS-basierte Metagenomik die mikrobielle Ökologie und damit auch Teile der agrarwissenschaftlichen Bodenforschung transformiert hat, die ökologische Ansätze integrieren, um landwirtschaftliche Praktiken zu verändern. Wir rekonstruieren die Agrarwissenschaft als Designwissenschaft (sensu Niiniluoto) und beschreiben, wie die Möglichkeiten, Festlegungen und Beschränkungen der metagenomischen Ansätze in der mikrobiellen Ökologie die Werte, Situationsbewertungen und Empfehlungen für Eingriffe der Bodenmikrobiologie im Kontext nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft beeinflussen.

"When is Covid Covid?" is the title of a discussion paper published by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University on 11 September 2020. Amid the multinational struggle for an appropriate social and political approach to the crisis triggered by Covid-19, a recognized panel of medical experts alerts us that Covid-19 is defined very differently in different contexts. One definition focuses on symptoms, another one on RNA sequences of the virus. In the present contribution, this debate is taken up to discuss the extent to which new sequencing practices and their "seamless webs" become socially effective as instances of interpretation and design. At the same time, the limitations of such webs become noticeable as ruptures, seams, and scars. "Wann ist Covid Covid?" titelt ein Diskussionsbeitrag des Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine der Universität Oxford vom 11. September 2020. Inmitten des multinationalen Ringens um einen geeigneten gesellschaftlichen wie politischen Umgang mit der durch Covid- 19 ausgelösten Krisensituation weist ein anerkanntes medizinisches Expert*innengremium darauf hin, dass Covid-19 in unterschiedlichen Kontexten sehr unterschiedlich definiert wird. Bei einer Definition geht es um klinische Symptome am Menschen, bei einer anderen um RNA-Sequenzen des Virus. In dem Beitrag wird diese Frage aufgegriffen und diskutiert, inwiefern neue Sequenzierungspraktiken und deren "nahtlose Netze" als Deutungs- und Gestaltungsinstanzen gesellschaftlich wirkmächtig werden. Dabei zeigen sich auch die Grenzen solcher Netze in Form von Brüchen, Nähten und Narben.

When digital technologies become a part of everyday life in most parts of society, it changes the way we work, organize, communicate, and make relations. It also changes the relationship between the state and its citizens - a relationship usually conceptualized as citizenship. To capture this transformation, a new concept of digital citizenship has emerged. The overall purpose of this paper is to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge about how citizenship is transformed into digital citizenship through a systematic review of the academic literature on the concept of digital citizenship. The literature review identifies four streams of literature in the academic landscape of digital citizenship, and by a content analysis, it outlines the many dimensions and facets of digital citizenship. In this way, the literature review offers a comprehensive picture of both the impacts of the digital transformation on citizenship and the concept within the academic debate. Wenn digitale Technologien in den meisten Teilen der Gesellschaft das tägliche Leben durchdringen, verändert das die Art und Weise, wie wir arbeiten, uns organisieren, kommunizieren und Beziehungen eingehen. Es verändert auch die Beziehung zwischen Staat und Bürgerinnen und Bürgern - eine Beziehung, die normalerweise als Staatsbürgerschaft konzeptualisiert wird. Um diesen Wandel zu erfassen, hat sich ein neues Konzept der digitalen Bürgerschaft herausgebildet. Das übergeordnete Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Fragmentierung des Wissens darüber, wie Staatsbürgerschaft in digitale Staatsbürgerschaft umgewandelt wird, durch eine systematische Überprüfung der akademischen Literatur zum Konzept von Digital Citizenship zu überwinden. Der Beitrag identifiziert vier wissenschaftliche Literaturstränge zu Digital Citizenship und skizziert mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse die vielen Dimensionen und Facetten von Digital Citizenship. Auf diese Weise bietet die Literaturübersicht ein umfassendes Bild sowohl der Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation auf die Bürgerschaft als auch des Konzepts innerhalb der akademischen Debatte.

This article refers to the brief history of the development of online media in Bangladesh starting from the beginnings of the Internet to the contemporary stage. Since 2006 Bangladeshi news organizations have been reshaping their strategy towards being a digital-only news outlet. News organizations are now using different features of mobile devices and social media to tell stories and engage with their target audiences. Today both the digital-only news outlets and mainstream media use QR codes, messengers, social media platforms, which enable them to reach a wider area of audiences. By using yet inexpensive digital tools journalists can easily create and distribute content for digital-only platforms. We consider digital-only platforms as new media, social media, and convergence media platforms. Social media platforms have provided the opportunity for traditional journalists to share news quickly, get feedback from the audience, and have two-way communication with the reader. Previous studies have looked at the genres of online journalism from a western perspective. Little has been done on the topic from the context of Bangladesh. In this article, we analyze the basic features of online news media that exist in contemporary Bangladesh and provide an account of the development trends. We outline the new genres, techniques, and use as a sample two most famous online news platforms: The Daily Star and bdnews24. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted with 5 different professionals from Journalism and mass media. This study is based on both primary and secondary sources of qualitative data to understand the new genres of online news media, challenges, and opportunities to work in the ever-changing media landscape.