Open Education & Social Media Arbeit: Transfer, Haltung, Widerspruch: Ein Input von Kolbe - U:FF 26

Open Education & Social Media Work: Transfer, Stance, and Dissent: An input from Christine Kolbe of the Open for Change:Stage at OERcamp & University of Hamburg at the University:Future Festival 2026 | CC BY 4.0. Social media creates spaces for exchange, visibility, and collaboration, even within academia. With a Zoom call to the collaborative project Co-WOERK, I would like to ask: How can social media work be meaningful for temporary, externally funded projects, and what guidelines should it follow? Is it non-stop content creation driven by powerful algorithms, or can vibrant project documentation, awareness-raising, and knowledge transfer succeed even without ultra-fast trends and meme culture, but with humor, depth, and a clear stance? Not only from an open education perspective does a strong tension emerge: How do we, in the Big Tech universe, relate to these proprietary "gated commons," and utilize these functional spaces for a culture of sharing until, hopefully in the very near future, inter-university and public-benefit-oriented alternatives become available? /// The sixth edition of the University:Future Festival took place from June 22-24, 2026, under the motto "Under Pressure!" The hybrid festival was held in person in Berlin, Braunschweig, Essen, Graz, Hamburg, and Nuremberg. The University:Future Festival (U:FF) is the largest event dedicated to the (digital) future of academic education. Topics included AI, future skills, didactics, and strategic processes. Participants enjoyed a diverse program with approximately 280 presentations from around 550 speakers! The University:Future Festival is a collaboration between the Higher Education Forum on Digitalization, the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education, and the Stifterverband (Donors' Association for German Science). The partner stages were organized by the Emerging Tech Lab and the Media Lab of the Project House at TU Braunschweig, ORCA.nrw, Graz University of Technology, Ohm University and UTN Nuremberg, and the University of Hamburg in conjunction with OERCamp. More information is available at https://festival.hfd.digital/de/