The CRIDIT group focuses on critical studies in digital technologies and societal change. Our main purpose is to contribute to analysis, disclosure and alternative interpretations of the often taken-for-granted and dominant values, worldviews, structures and categories entangled with digital technologies. In order to do so, we see digital technologies not only as tangible artifacts but also as practices and actions to which a critical approach can contribute, creating new, deepened and more nuanced knowledge. Closely related to such a standpoint is an inclusive notion of design as covering activities on different analytical levels such as on a technical level (e.g. systems architecture, data format), on the information systems level (e.g. data structure, functionality, representation), in the socio-technical ensemble (e.g. work practices, user experiences) and in technological culture (e.g. political and cultural institutions).

This requires several contrasting perspectives and our group represents several bi- and multi-disciplinary approaches, such as the combination of social psychology and information systems, sociology and information systems, science and technology studies (STS), and philosophy of technology. We also cooperate closely with sociology, feminist studies and political science in almost all our research projects but with a stable focus on digital technologies.  This is vital in order to achieve our goal of opening up the established understandings of digital technologies and societal change to reveal alternative and transformative processes.

For many years, our application field has been eGovernment and the digitalization of the public sector. Our mission is to continue this path and grow as an internationally acknowledged research group.