Ulrich Riehm

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Ulrich Riehm (born April 24, 1952 in Mannheim ) is a German sociologist and technology researcher who researches socially relevant processes and consequences of digitization in the field of technology assessment (TA).

Career

Born and raised in Mannheim , Riehm studied sociology and pedagogy at the university there , completed additional IT training in Paderborn and then took up a position in the data center of an international industrial company. In 1979 he moved to the Department of Applied Systems Analysis (AFAS) at the Karlsruhe Research Center , which in 1995 became part of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), today a facility of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Between 2005 and 2012 he worked at the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) in Berlin, then again at ITAS in Karlsruhe .

research

The TA projects and investigations carried out by Riehm are typically characterized by the application of quantitative and qualitative sociological methods as well as the acceptance of the factual dimension of the technical applications examined. In some projects, there is even more to be said about helping to shape the application systems, such as the accompanying research on the "Public Petitions" pilot project of the German Bundestag as part of a TAB project or the establishment of a specialist portal for technology assessment supported by the DFG . In addition, the aim is not only to incorporate the results into political advice , but also to disseminate them in specialist communities and to publish them scientifically. Empirical social research, in-depth knowledge of the factual dimension of technology and intensive communication with different publics characterize this approach of technology assessment for information and communication technologies and digital transformation , which Riehm represents at ITAS and beyond.

Publications

Riehm is the author of numerous scientific articles and books. A selection of some monographs that were created under his leadership:

  • Ulrich Riehm, Knud Böhle: Post without a postman. Falling volumes of letters and electronic mail services are challenges for politics . Berlin, edition sigma 2014, (Studies by the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Vol. 39), ISBN 978-3-8360-8139-9
  • Ulrich Riehm, Knud Böhle, Ralf Lindner: Electronic petitioning and modernization of petitioning systems in Europe . Berlin, Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) 2014, (Technology Assessment Studies Series, No. 6), ISBN 978-3-7357-9033-0
  • Ulrich Riehm, Knud Böhle, Ralf Lindner: Electronic petition systems. Analysis of the modernization of the parliamentary petition system in Germany and Europe . Berlin, edition sigma 2013, (Studies by the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Vol. 35), ISBN 978-3-8360-8135-1
  • Ulrich Riehm, Christopher Coenen, Ralf Lindner; Clemens Blümel: Citizen participation through e-petitions. Analysis of continuity and change in the petition system . Berlin, edition sigma 2009, (Studies by the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Vol. 29), ISBN 978-3-8360-8129-0
  • Ulrich Riehm, Thomas Petermann, Carsten Orwat, Christopher Coenen, Christoph Revermann, Constanze Scherz, Bernd Wingert: E-Commerce in Germany - A Critical Assessment of Electronic Commerce . Berlin, edition sigma 2003, (Studies by the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag, Vol. 14), ISBN 3-89404-823-9
  • Ulrich Riehm, Carsten Orwat, Bernd Wingert: Online book trade in Germany. The book trade industry faces the challenge of the Internet . Karlsruhe, Research Center Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 3-923704-36-4
  • Ulrich Riehm, Bernd Wingert: Multimedia. Myths, opportunities and challenges , Mannheim: Bollmann 1995, ISBN 3-927901-69-5
  • Ulrich Riehm, Knud Böhle, Ingrid Gabel-Becker, Bernd Wingert: Electronic Publishing. A critical inventory . Berlin et al., Springer 1992, ISBN 3-540-54159-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal homepage at ITAS
  2. ↑ A broader presentation of the approach is offered by Knud Böhle: Disorientation of the TA or gain in orientation? Some comments on the suggestion to hermeneutically expand the TA . In: Technology Assessment - Theory and Practice 24 (2015) 3, pp. 91–97, online
  3. ↑ A methodical procedure to develop the technical dimensioning of technology is described in Ulrich Riehm, Bernd Wingert: Methodically controlled personal experience - a new element of a TA methodology . In: Gotthard Bechmann (Hrsg.): Practice fields of technology impact research. Concepts, methods, options. Frankfurt u. a .: Campus 1996, ISBN 978-3-593-35402-6 , pp. 299–327 (publications of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Vol. 3; online )
  4. ↑ Electronic petition system of the German Bundestag
  5. ^ TAB project: Public electronic petitions and civic participation
  6. ↑ Specialist portal for technology assessment: openTA
  7. ↑ List of publications
personal data
SURNAME Riehm, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German technology impact assessor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim