[EN]Edition Sigma

englischThis pioneering study on the (West) German consumer electronics industry in decline takes a new look at the structural crisis of the 1970s/80s and its interpretation, development and location by drawing on previously unevaluated sources in German and Japanese. The industry study focuses on [...]

englischThis anthology is based on the interdisciplinary project ‘FindMyBike: legal and technological concepts for the transmission of time-based geodata on a criminological and administrative science basis’. In this project, technological concepts for the location of theft-prone objects were [...]

englischGood legislation and good administrative action are of great importance for the social acceptance of politics and administration. Unfortunately, however, they are often unclear, bureaucratic and poorly tailored to the needs of citizens. How can the accessibility and addressability of [...]

englischExternal pressure is considered one of the factors that force organizations to reform. In the case of international sports organizations, this does not seem to be true: Although the IOC, FIFA and quite a few other federations have been criticized for years, they unwaveringly stick to their [...]

englischWith the focus topic “The Human Factor”, the Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie 2023 aims to investigate on the one hand the manifold arrangements of the deficiency in the technical field (and especially “new” technologies): How do machine worlds, user interfaces, implementation strategies, or even [...]

englischOur society encounters itself in public goods, which citizens depend on in order to develop in a free and equal society and to shape social cohesion democratically. Demographic, neoliberal and digital structural change and social and pandemic, economic and ecological, and energy and military [...]