Talks & Presentations – ConJunction

Opening Keynote on ‘Science (Communication) and Wikipedia: Potentials and Pitfalls’

Recently I had the honor of providing the opening keynote to the conference “Enhancing the voice of science on Wikipedia: How universities can collaborate with the online encyclopedia in science communication”, taking place from April 9–11, 2024, at University of Innsbruck.

I seized the opportunity to reflect on the following questions:

How ‘scientific’ is Wikipedia?
How important is science for Wikipedia?
How important is Wikipedia for science?
How important is Wikipedia for our common knowledge?
What are potentials when science communication meets Wikipedia?
What are the pitfalls?
Is it worth it?

Please check out the video recording above and the slides below.

Science (Communication) and Wikipedia – Potentials and Pitfalls from Dobusch Leonhard

Recap of the Workshop “Resisting Business-As-Usual” – Feb 23-24, JKU Linz

On Feb 23 & 24, we were happy to welcome participants to our GWO* workshop “Resising Business-As-Usual,” both online and on-site at the JKU Linz to our workshop. Inspired by the conversations and the burning dilemmas on the nexus between social justice and the climate crisis, we want to share a short recap on the workshop, the formats we experimented with, and a recording of the panel discussion with you here.

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Join our panel discussion at the GWO Workshop “Resisting Business-As-Usual”!

From February 22-23, we – Laura Dobusch (JKU Linz), Dide Van Eck (Utrecht School of Governance), Katharina Kreissl (JKU Linz), and I – are excited to host a hybrid workshop on “Resisting Business-As-Usual” at the JKU Linz, sponsored by Gender, Work & Organization. While the workshop promises vibrant discussions on burning dilemmas at the nexus between social justice and the climate crisis for accepted participants, you still have the opportunity to listen to our fantastic panel. Curious? Find more information here!

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Festrede zu “Reform und Zukunft des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks” beim Otto-Brenner-Preis 2023

In der Festrede anlässlich der Verleihung der Otto-Brenner-Preise für kritischen Journalismus 2023 habe ich in der laufenden Debatte eine provokant-optimistische These vertreten: Die besten Zeiten öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien liegen noch vor uns.

Das Manuskript meiner Rede ist in voller Länge bei Netzpolitik.org in der Reihe “Neues aus dem Fernsehrat” erschienen.

Innsbruck goes Boston – the Academy of Management 2023 experience in a nutshell

The 83^rd annual meeting of the Academy of Management took place in Boston this year. Under the theme “Putting the Worker Front and Center”, more than 10.000 scholars and practitioners joined the conference’s professional development workshops (PDW), paper sessions, symposia, keynotes, and very importantly, its socials. Leonhard Dobusch and Milena Leybold were two of these attendees, who, among other scholars representing the University of Innsbruck, had the pleasure of enjoying a great program and Boston as a fantastic conference site. In this blog entry, they share some of their highlights. As Leonhard is this year’s chair of the Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) Interest Group (IG) and Milena part of the Social Media Committee of the Interest Group, they were both actively engaged in events organized by and for the IG.

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Inspiring input, exhausting heat, and dolce vita! A short summary of the 39th EGOS Colloquium 2023 in Cagliari

Last week, Monica Nadegger, Katharina Zangerle, and Milena Leybold (University of Innsbruck, Department for Organization and Learning) traveled to the beautiful island Sardegna to meet for four days with around 2000 people at the Colloquium of the European Group of Organization Studies.

From the left: Monica Nadegger, Milena Leybold, Katharina Zangerle

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Re:publica 2023: Rundfunkbeitragsdebatte und Predictive Risk Analysis entlang von Lieferketten

Die jährlich in Berlin stattfindende re:publica ist wahrscheinlich eine der spannendsten und inklusivsten Digitalkonferenzen und für mich jedes Jahr ein Highlight in meinem Konferenzkalender. Dieses Jahr war ich mit einem Vortrag und als Teil eines Panels im Programm vertreten.

In meinem Vortrag habe ich versucht, den Bogen von der – auch in Österreich im Zuge der Einführung einer Haushaltsabgabe gerade aktuellen – Rundfunkbeitragsdebatte hin zur Vergesellschaftungsdebatte zu spannen, indem ich öffentlich-rechtliche Medien als wichtiges Beispiel für vergesellschaftete Organisationsformen unserer Zeit in den Blick genommen habe (Slides als PDF-Download).

Außerdem war ich gemeinsam mit Sabrina Zajak, Akhil C S und Lisa Basten Teil eines Panels zum Thema “Global Supply Chains – Digital Tools Between Empowerment And Control” und habe dort vor allem über den problematischen Einsatz von Predictive Risk Analysis-Tools zur Überwachung und Steuerung von globalen Lieferketten gesprochen – das Thema eines von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung geförderten Forschungsprojekts.

Coffee – PuB – Peers and Beverages: Academic Writing as an Early Career Scholar

Join us for an open conversation on academic writing, its beauty and challenges, and the pressure of “you should be writing” as early career scholars over a coffee on March 14th!

Academic writing can be a fulfilling but also challenging and overwhelming experience for early career scholars. On March 14th from 13.00 to 14.30, please join us for an honest exchange on our struggles and great moments in writing. Daniela Rothe (Writing Center, University of Innsbruck) will talk about the practice of journalling in academia, the tinkering between the scientific object itself and writing, and the re-(production) of gender stereotypes in scientific writing. Monica, Milena, and Ellen (early career researchers at the University of Innsbruck & Leuphana University Lüneburg) will share their writing experiences based on a collective letter diary they wrote to each other over a couple of months to reflect on their writing practices.

We would love to hear about your experiences, too, and together question and discuss the norms and ways of academic writing.

Key Information

When? Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – 1 – 2.30 pm
Where? Marketing Spitz (SOWI, 3^rd floor, East)

You can find further information a bout the event here.

Title image: Victor Freits via Pexels

Guest Lecture at the DiSCourse Seminar: “Openness as Organizing Principle: Dilemmas across Domains” [Updates]

The Digital Science Center (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck invited me to give a talk in their lecture series “DiSCourse Seminar” on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 13:15. Please check out the abstract of my talk on “Openness as Organizing Principle: Dilemmas across Domains”:

‘Openness’ has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing set of organizational domains. However, most discussions within these specialized domains (e.g. open data, open innovation or open strategy) pursue openness as a program, focusing on challenges specific to the particularities of those domains. Conceptualizing openness as a dynamic organizing principle along dimensions of transparency/opacity and inclusion/exclusion allows theorizing and potentially addressing dilemmas associated with programmatic approaches to openness across these various domains.

Participants are invited to join the event at the Digital Science Center, Innrain 15, Open Space Area (1st floor) or online via Big Blue Button.

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Vortrag beim Philosophischen Café Innsbruck: “Welchen Fakten kann man noch trauen?”

Am 7. Dezember durfte ich im Philosophischen Café Innsbruck zum Thema “Welchen Fakten kann man noch trauen?
Zur Glaubwürdigkeitskrise von Wissenschaft und Journalismus im Zeitalter digitaler (Des-)Information” vortragen und diskutieren. Die Slides meines Vortrags finden sich auf Slideshare, es gibt auch eine per Smartphone improvisierte Audio-Aufzeichnung.

Inhaltlich hat mein Vortrag auf meinem in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) erschienen Beitrag “Objektivität unter Anführungszeichen: Über Wissenschaft und Aktivismus” aufgebaut.

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