Post-Graduate College 'Technology and Society'
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Post-Graduate College 'Technology and Society' |
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Study of sociology, social psychology, political science, and macroeconomics in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz and at the London School of Economics. Heisenberg Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main as of 1985. Doctorate; 1997. Postdoctorate (Habilitation) in sociology with study of unions and wage dynamics, 1984. Professor of sociology at the Technical University Darmstadt since 1987. Director of the Section for Industrial Sociology in the German Society for Sociology, 1986–1990. Executive board member of the interdisciplinary German Association of Social Science Labor Market Research since 1986; chairperson, 1995–1998. Representative and information commissioner of the German Society for Sociology in the Information and Communication Commission of the scientific societies in Germany since 1996. Since 1997, speaker of GLOBAL INFO Consortiums and Overall Project Director of the Priority Research Area GLOBAL INFO of the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology and a key planning and coordination project on digital library concepts. On the advisory board of the European DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries since 1999. Member of the editorial board of the Journal on Digital Libraries since 200. Numerous university administrative functions, including the vice-presidency of the Technical University Darmstadt, 1997–1999.
E-Mail: schmiede@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de
[back to top]Social dimensions of information and communication technologies. Historical development of work, work in the information society. Sociostructural trends in the development of modern societies. Theories about advances of information technology. Socially oriented design of information and communication technologies. Digital libraries and integrated scientific systems of information and knowledge.
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