Academic dialogue

As part of the Academic Dialogue series, the Faculty Media Sciences offers its students exclusive insights into professional practice through guest speakers.

The guest speaker is Dr Thomas Schmieder, an alumnus of Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, a freelance communications researcher, software entrepreneur and co-founder and former managing director of Cinector GmbH, who will give a talk entitled ‘Nodes & Cues: The cognitive operating system of the networked society put to the test’.

The focus is on an interdisciplinary approach drawing on network theory and developmental psychology: what happens to a society’s capacity for reflection when generative AI and algorithmic information flows alter the very foundations of its orientation? Building on this question, Dr Schmieder discusses current developments at the interface of media research, communication and technological innovation. In doing so, he provides insights into the impact of intelligent systems on media production, information processing and social orientation.