ITeG lecture series: "The danger of digital discrimination through IT-based stereotype effects."

In the ITeG lecture series "Digital Society - A Design Task" on January 11, 2023, Prof. Dr. Julia Krönung will provide insights on the topic "The Danger of Digital Discrimination through IT-based Stereotype Effects".

Julia Krönung is Professor of Business Administration, in particular the design of socio-technical information systems, at the FernUniversität Hagen. Her research focuses on socio-technical system design, IT acceptance and digital diversity. In her funded research projects, she also looks at the advancing digitalization from the perspective of digitally disadvantaged user groups.

Summary of her presentation:
Today's society in Western Europe is facing two movements: On the one hand, an increasingly progressive technology-induced change, essentially caused by digital business models - digitalization for short - and on the other hand, a population demography in which one in three people will be over 65 years old in 2050. Added to this is the fact that older people are usually not the ones who are best able to keep up with digitalization - especially in terms of its speed - as they have the highest non-liner rate of all population groups and are the most likely to reject newer technologies. However, the question of why this is the case and how it can be changed in terms of digital participation and digital diversity has hardly been researched in business informatics. The lecture is therefore intended to provide a theoretical classification of the complex of topics surrounding IT-based stereotype effects and to show in terms of design theory what possibilities exist for older people to participate in digitization in order to be able to act digitally autonomously and on their own responsibility.

The lectures will take place online (via Zoom). The link for the Zoom meeting and the meeting ID can be found on the following website: www.uni-kassel.de/go/iteg-lectures