Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By Car

The campus of Dortmund University is located near the Dortmund West motorway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

By 'H-Bahn'

The H-Bahn, an elevated railway, is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Centre via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, it takes just over 20 minutes to get to Dortmund Central Station with the AirportExpress and from there to the university with the S-Bahn. Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometres away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Publication by Ronja Trischler

Chapter »Digital Objects? Materialities in the Trans-Sequential Analysis of Digital Work« published

07/10/2023

Cover of the book Transsequent Research

How can researchers adequately consider the contribution of digital technology in labor research?

This chapter asks how researchers can adequately take account of digital technology’s contribution to collaborative work. It is argued that ethnographic studies of digital work can benefit from Trans-Sequential Analysis (TSA), a perspective for empirical social research which concerns the spatiotemporal organization of social processes through the continuous and collaborative work on “formative objects”. Trischler shows that particularly TSA’s praxeological concept of materialization is helpful to understand how software, hardware and data contribute to cooperation: it allows to trace how shared objects materialize step by step, how participants work on them in situ, and how they save and share their work with collaborators elsewhere. Arguing that digital work occurs materially, too, and that TSA provides a systematic framework to research how it does so empirically, the chapter offers an in-depth discussion of TSA’s methodological assumptions of materiality as well as its implications for research based on an ethnographic case study. In the empirical analysis, Trischler discusses the step-by-step materialization of digital visual effects for film and television as drafts and the situated use of different materials to evaluate them in screenings, to introduce a concept of digital objects, and to demonstrate both the material variety of digital work and the use and usefulness of TSA in studies of digital work.

The paper "Digital Objects? Materialities in the Trans-Sequential Analysis of Digital Work" is available at Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-40826-8_7