[ecrea] Cfp Late Autumn School "Trust in the Digital Age"

Call for Papers: Late Autumn School “Trust in the Digital Age”

The interdisciplinary DFG Research Training Group ”Trust and 
Communication in a Digitized World“ at the University of Münster is 
organizing an interdisciplinary, international Late Autumn School on 
“Trust in the Digital Age” from 15th until 16th of November, 2018.

Under the theme “Trust in the Digital Age” we aim at discussing the role 
of trust in modern societies that are marked by an increasing 
digitization. We invite applications from a diversity of disciplinary 
perspectives – for instance from communication science, psychology, 
economics, information systems and sport & exercise sciences and further 
related fields of research.

On the one hand, digitization implies the reliance on and integration of 
digital technologies in more and more areas of life – from artificial 
intelligence in self-driving cars, algorithm-based decision-making on 
the managerial level to social media platforms in the consumption of 
news media content. With their far-reaching embedding in people’s 
everyday life, the question arises in how far people trust modern 
technologies that are increasingly shaping their working routines, their 
social relations or their connections to a public world among many other 
things. This implies a focus not only on trust in the technology itself, 
but also means addressing the role of trust in the social processes that 
evolve when technologies are integrated into organizational structures 
or when people appropriate technologies in their everyday routines.

On the other hand, a focus on technological transformations should not 
come at the price of neglecting the role of persistence and durability 
in digitized societies. While change is happening rapidly in some areas, 
others remain untouched. That is why work on the notion of trust beyond 
the rapidly changing phenomena in digitized societies remains equally 
important. Therefore, we also invite contributions addressing on a 
theoretical, conceptual but also empirical level the role of trust, 
distrust and risk in organizations.

In order to reflect on these two perspectives on trust in the digital 
age, we aim to discuss the operationalization of trust in technology, 
its emergence and development, the humanness of technologies and whether 
or not it is possible to trust technologies. Furthermore, we address 
conceptual work on the role of trust in interpersonal relations, within 
organizations and in societal institutions as well as reflections on 
trust in scientific discourses.

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Harrison McKnight, Professor for Accounting & Information 
Systems Michigan State University, USA

Dr. Zlatka Pavlova, Faculty III “Media, Information and Design” 
University of Applied Sciences Hannover, Germany


The school is open for PhD and Master Students as well as early 
Post-docs in communication science, psychology, economics, information 
systems and sport & exercise sciences as well as similar research 
fields. Their work should deal with trust and/or communication. Due to 
space limitations, the applicants will be selected based on their 
application.

Applications must include a research proposal of the dissertation 
project (500 to 1.000 words) and a short scientific CV. The submission 
must refer to the research topic of the Research Training Group or the 
topic of the Late Autumn School. Please state the status of your 
dissertation/master project and what questions you are currently dealing 
with.

Furthermore, interested master students are asked to include a short 
recommendation letter by their supervisor.

Deadline for Applications: 1st September 2018

Applications in English in one PDF document and informal enquiries 
should be addressed to Anne Mollen, coordinator of the Research Training 
Group ((a.mollen /at/ uni-muenster.de) <mailto:(a.mollen /at/ uni-muenster.de)>). The 
applications will be evaluated in a peer review process and response 
will be given until end of September 2018.

Students are invited to present their research project in one of the 
Workshop slots. Please specify whether you are interested in presenting 
your project when applying for the Late Autumn School.

https://www.uni-muenster.de/GK-Vertrauen-Kommunikation/lateautumnschool/2018.html




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