Administrivia

Future Technologies & Media (FTM)

Andy Weeger

Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences

February 21, 2025

Discussion

What to you expect from this course?

General remarks

In this course you will dive into key emerging technologies, get to know their key characteristics and fields of application as well as important ethical considerations related to their implementation and use.

As to that, you will

• get to know my theoretically-grounded hypotheses on future technology and media,
• apply these learnings and and expertise gained in previous semesters to analyze an emergent technology,
• identify fields for application and as well as (ethical) implications,
• and present and discuss your findings in a presentation (solo).

Learning objectives

During this course, you should advance your skills in the following areas:

• understanding of the key characteristics of emerging technologies in general, the process and phases of technology emergence, as well as specific characteristics of emerging information technologies/digital technologies,
• knowledge of fields of application of current merging digital technologies, their impact on (information) systems used by individuals, organizations, and society, as well as media
• understanding of potentials and risks for individuals, economies and societies,
• communication of conclusions and the underlying knowledge,
• and social and ethical responsibilities in uncertain and ambiguous contexts.

Effort

5 ECTS
≈ 150 h workload
≈ 50 h classes
+ 100 h self learning

You will gain 5 ECTS for this course. This equals approx. 150 hours workload, of which you need most to pass the course.

• Lectures (approx. 50 hours)
• Preparation (approx. 10 hours)
• Presentation (remaining time)

It is very important that you reserve enough time to attend the classes AND prepare your presentation (see Table 1 for details).

Examination

Graded will be your analysis of a future technology, its characteristics and implications as well as your ability do discuss those.

Schedule

It is of importance that you prepare yourself for the sessions and work on the presentation continually. Please prepare your schedule accordingly.

Date	Topic	Preparation
19.03.2025	Administrivia & Introduction	—
26.03.2025	H1 Multimodality and Immersion Pt. 1	Suh and Prophet (2018)
28.03.2025	Deadline: Technology Proposals	Shortlist
01.04.2025	Announcement: Assignment of Technologies	—
02.04.2025	H1 Multimodality and Immersion Pt. 2	—
09.04.2025	H2 Intelligence and Affection Pt. 1	Dellermann et al. (2019)
16.04.2025	H2 Intelligence and Affection Pt. 2	—
23.04.2025	H3 Interconnectedness and Distributivity Pt. 1	Podcast1
30.04.2025	H3 Interconnectedness and Distributivity Pt. 2	—
07.05.2025	Excursion Week (no lecture)	—
14.05.2025	H4 Mobility and Ubiquity Pt. 1	Reading, tbd
21.05.2025	H4 Mobility and Ubiquity Pt. 1	—
26.05.2025	Deadline: Slides Upload	Slides
28.05.2025	Student Presentations — Session #1	—
04.06.2025	Student Presentations — Session #2	—
11.06.2025	Witsun Holidays	—
18.06.2025	Witsun Holidays	—
25.06.2025	Student Presentations — Session #3	—
02.07.2025	Student Presentations — Session #4	—

Table 1: Schedule summer term 2025 (may be subjected to changes)

Q&A

Literature

Dellermann, Dominik, Philipp Ebel, Matthias Söllner, and Jan Marco Leimeister. 2019. “Hybrid Intelligence.” Business & Information Systems Engineering 61: 637–43.

Suh, Ayoung, and Jane Prophet. 2018. “The State of Immersive Technology Research: A Literature Analysis.” Computers in Human Behavior 86: 77–90.

Footnotes

1. Decoder podcast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web; episode can be found on every major podcast platform or here