Digital Transformation in East Asia. Impacts on Economy and Society II “From Discourse to Praxis”

This international workshop is organised by the Institute of Orient and Asian Studies, University of Bonn and the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen within the framework of the research project “Digital Transformation and the Changing World of Work in East Asia”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the Federal State of the North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW) as a part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the States, and associated with the DFG priority programme, ‘Digitalisation of the Working Worlds. Conceptualising and Capturing a Systemic Transformation’ (Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer et al.).

Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer, Professor of sociology at the interdisciplinary Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, will deliver a keynote lecture.

The workshop, which is the second part of the presentation of our research project “The Digital Transformation in East Asia”, explores digital transformation as a discourse formation which is successively developing into a self-enforcing praxis in a society. We aim to elucidate the legitimisation process in digitalisation discourses, the political-economisation, and the performative actions of digitalisation in the economy and society of East Asia.