Kassel is prepared. The General Online Research Conference (GOR) will open its doors there for
the 25th time on 20 September for researchers and practitioners of digital research for three
days. As always, organised and hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V.
(DGOF), which was founded exactly 25 years ago. Time to celebrate a double anniversary this
year. With this commemorative publication, we would like to look back on 25 times of GOR and
25 years of DGOF together with current and former players, capture moments and also look to
the future.
The DGOF is Europe’s largest international professional society for the development and
promotion of online research. It is committed to the establishment and further development of
online research as well as to the interests of online researchers. Starting as an association to
raise awareness of online research and organise the GOR, it has developed over the past two
and a half decades into an association that addresses many of the concerns of stakeholders in
the context of online research.
Today, the DGOF sees itself as a bridge between different disciplines and promotes the transfer
between science and practice. The GOR is only one of many formats supported by the DGOF.
The DGOF finances academic research projects, awards annual prizes for a wide variety of
achievements, publishes writings and compendia on online research, is responsible for a
podcast on online research, is committed to market and social research across associations,
among other things by collaborating on standards and norms, and is always really good when
it brings people together at one of its numerous events.
However, the GOR as an annual conference continues to be the lighthouse of all activities.
The three-day annual conference on all current topics of online research has so far taken us
through 16 cities in three countries and has twice taken place purely virtually. In terms of
content, a programme of lectures and workshops presents and discusses innovative methods,
concepts and applications as well as current trends and developments from the various fields
of digital research.
We hope you all enjoy this journey of discovery of 25 years DGOF and 25 times GOR and hope
to welcome you as a guest in Kassel as well.
sincerely, your editorial team
Olaf Wenzel and Otto Hellwig
Otto Hellwig
Digital Methods Survey Research Online Research Applied Research GOR DGOF Data Science