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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Talk by Ronja Trischler about online moderation

03/12/2025

On March 05 and 06, the KWI in Essen hosted the workshop "Das war's. Praktiken und Ästhetiken des Aufhörens" ('That's it. Practices and aesthetics of stopping'), at which Ronja Trischler gave a paper about "Abmoderieren. Diskursive Praktiken beenden" ('Winding up moderation. Ending discursive practices').

Whether in work meetings, television broadcasts, conferences, panel discussions, citizen participation, video calls or social media groups: Moderation is a widespread method of facilitating discursive exchange across various forms of practice and media. Ending is considered the central task of moderation; in ethnomethodological terms, we are dealing with ethnoexperts of ending. Where others cannot find an end, moderators are on hand, or at least should be. New challenges are emerging in an increasingly digitalized society: Automation, expansion and varying degrees of professionalization of moderation can be observed, especially in the form of content moderation on platforms. In ongoing moderation online, the boundaries between producers and users are becoming blurred beyond the theses on "prosumption": the civic engagement and community building of "volunteer moderators" goes hand in hand with care practices.

Based on an internet ethnographic study of an online group asking for advice on repairing everyday objects, the article examines practices of ending discursive practices online. To this end, it adopts a practice-theoretical perspective that examines digital moderation as a socio-technical, semiotic material practice based on science and technology studies. As a practice of evaluation and ordering, moderation also harbors the danger of preventing or excluding topics, contributors or positions. Through the technization (and infrastructuration) of moderation, users experience socio-technical selections and closures as non-transparent - and as a cause for speculation, which illustrates the normative implications of ending discursive practices. In the case of repair advice, individual posts can be 'closed', but not the understanding of the conditions of the discursive practices of giving advice in thr group.

Workshop website