30/06/2026 16:30 - 17:30

HALL: Pola - A102

Contact: Nord I.

Chair: Greuter F.

The panel is dedicated to educational initiatives that focus on critical education on anti-Semitism in the context of digital teaching and learning scenarios. In doing so, we address the conference theme of social inequalities in relation to the digital dynamics of anti-Semitism. So far, we have two papers dedicated to this topic: One paper analyzes existing initiatives in app-applications in relation to mediaproductive competencies of students and scholars. The second paper examines how educational games can promote critical education on anti-Semitism in contemporary mediatized contexts. We are open to more papers focussing on other media-formats as ways of doing critical education on antisemitism. In terms of concept, the focus is on anti-Semitism with sensibility to also racism in the digital age. This includes for example analyzing underlying mechanisms of discrimination and racism through the use of algorithms, and possible pro-social action in the digital space with regard to anti-Semitism. Digitality permeates all areas of life and connects data from a wide variety of sources (cf. Häußling et al. 2017, p. 2). These processes generate new data that flows into social realities and culture, creating a self-reinforcing, never-ending cycle of communication (cf. ibid.). Petzke, Schmidt, and Staffa (2023, 176) state: "We are therefore essentially already in a post-digital or onlife (cf. Floridi 2015) age, in which our reality can no longer be clearly separated into analog/offline and digital/online, but is instead synthesized: we live in datafied environments. It is therefore not surprising that not only social realities as a whole, but also the racism [and anti-Semitism] that takes place within them, as well as criticism of racism [and anti-Semitism], are transforming and becoming powerful in connection with digitality."