Die Organisation des digitalen Wandels

A Tamed Transformation. Debating Digitalisation in Research and Higher Education Policy in Switzerland, 1998–2020

“…The digital transformation of society has recently gained much attention in social scientific analysis and description. It has been described as a semantic strategy (Süssenguth 2015), as a process (Grunwald 2019), as society 4.0 (Baecker 2018), as the reduction of societal complexity through regularities or "patterns" (Nassehi 2024), as a utopia (Rebhorn 2019) or in contrast, as a dystopic form of surveillance capitalism (Zuboff 2019), to mention only a few. Although these approaches offer differing theoretical frameworks for macroscopic analysis of societal change, the scope of this article is somewhat more modest.…”