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About the Conference

The ongoing Russian full-scale war against Ukraine is documented not only by institutions but also by civilians who record and share their experiences via digital platforms. Among these, Telegram continues to play a crucial role as a space for coordination, expression, information exchange, and collective sense-making (Nazaruk, 2022). As part of an ongoing collaboration between the “War Sensing” project (European University Viadrina and the CRC “Media of Cooperation”) and the Telegram Archive of the War (Center for Urban History in Lviv), the three-day event “War Sensing through the Telegram Archive of the War” aims to re-actualise the role of digital archives in the rapidly changing digital and political environment.

The Telegram Archive of the War (further: the Archive), curated by the Center for Urban History in Lviv, captures the digital dimension of the war. Since February 2022, the Center has been systematically archiving public Telegram channels related to the war, including those used for evacuation, OSINT, mutual aid, memes, infrastructures, or local reporting. The Archive, therefore, offers a unique basis for empirical, inventive and interpretive research into how war is experienced, represented and documented. Our collaboration during this conference and data sprint builds on the previous data sprint with the Archive organised in 2022 (see Bareikytė et al. 2024), and aims to update research on digital platform archives with contemporary questions and approaches.

The final programme, including the Zoom links, will be sent to registered participants. 

Program highlights

The event consists of

• a pre-conference event in Frankfurt (Oder) (22.09.2025),
• a hybrid conference featuring keynote talks and tutorials (23.09.2025),
• and a hybrid data sprint incl. hands-on work with the Archive’s data during the two-day datasprint (23-25.09.2025).

On the Data Sprint

During the data sprint, we would like to invite scholars, artists, civic tech and OSINT communities, journalists, and civil society actors to work collaboratively with selected datasets from the Archive. 

The data sprint participants will explore curated datasets and can join to (collaboratively or individually) work on the following themes/projects: detention and filtration, sabotage, crowd witnessing (cf. Andén-Papadopoulos, 2013) and trustworthiness of OSINT outputs (cf. Digital Method Initiative, 2024).

Data sprint working group projects:

1. Detention Centers

This project group aims to systematically map detention centers established by occupying forces in Ukraine’s territories. During the data sprint the group will focus on the use and perception of detention centers—both formal and makeshift. The group explores the evidentiary and investigative potential of Telegram data in identifying possible detention sites, tracking forced relocations and narratives of capture and imprisonment, and understanding civilian-led search practices to enable advocacy and accountability efforts for deported and missing Ukrainian children. 

2. Sabotage

This project argues that, alongside disinformation, contemporary sabotage and the growing number of unexplained attacks are fuelling fears about the future of Europe, including Ukraine and beyond. At the same time, sabotage can contribute to acts of resistance, which can destabilise the Russian occupation of parts of Ukraine. Using data selected from the Telegram Archive of War, this project aims to categorise narratives of sabotage in Ukraine in 2022-23. The project’s overarching goal is to explore how sabotage is portrayed on Telegram and to illustrate its role as a contemporary form of destabilisation and resistance during wartime.

3. Witnessing the War

The outbreak of the full-scale invasion became visible through Telegram as citizens of Ukrainian cities turned to urban chats to share and corroborate their experiences due to the lack of official news coverage. The Telegram Archive of the War creates a unified message feed that documents the chronological development and regional variations of the collective witnessing of the first days of the invasion. The goal of this project is to analyse more specifically what wartime practices are represented in the archived dataset.

4. Assessing trustworthiness of OSINT outputs on Telegram

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) outputs became an important way for thoroughly analysing events during Russia’s war against Ukraine, such as tracking military movements or crowdsourcing information. Nevertheless, the flood of user-generated content on Telegram raises serious challenges for assessing its reliability and trustworthiness. Existing evaluation frameworks, such as the “Amsterdam Matrix” (Digital Method Initiative, 2024) on assessing trustworthiness of OSINT-labelled posts on Twitter/X, offer guidance but cannot simply be transferred to another platform, such as Telegram, where unique styles, cultures, and formats shape how information is disseminated. This project therefore further develops a systematic methodology tailored to Telegram, aiming to improve the reliability of OSINT verification and accelerate the detection of misinformation.

Registration

The hybrid conference, combined with the data sprint, offers the possibility to join the event in Frankfurt (Oder)/Słubice, Lviv, or online.

To participate, please send a short email to warsensing[ae]europa-uni.de by 15.09.2025, expressing your interest to join the public keynote events.

If you would like to participate in the data sprint, please specify which project group during the data sprint you want to join. We will follow up with more details and an updated schedule closer to the event.

This data sprint is part of the ongoing collaboration between the “War Sensing” project (European University Viadrina and the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”) with Prof. Dr. Miglė Bareikytė and Johanna Hiebl and the Telegram Archive of War (Center for Urban History in Lviv) with Taras Nazaruk.

Program Outline

22.09.2025: Pre-Conference event in Frankfurt/Oder (on-site & in German)

Presentation and Reading with Q&A, 18:00-19:30 CET
moderated by Johanna Hiebl (European University Viadrina)

Das Russland-Netzwerk. Wie der Kreml die deutsche Demokratie angreift [The Russia Network: How the Kremlin is attacking German democracy]
by Susanne Spahn (University of Passau)

23.09.2025: Hybrid Conference in Frankfurt/Oder & Lviv (online)

Keynote lecture, 10:00–10:45 CET [11:00–11:45 EET in Lviv]
moderated by Johanna Hiebl (European University Viadrina)

Telegram Archive of the War – Context and Curatorial Ethics
by Taras Nazaruk (Center for Urban History, Lviv)

Evening Public Talks, 17:00–19:00 CET [18:00–20:00 EET in Lviv]
moderated by Miglė Bareikytė (European University Viadrina)

Labour of Witnessing
by Asia Bazdyrieva (The University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University)

Detention and Filtration Practices
with Daria Hetmanova (Simon Fraser University)

23.-25.09.2025:  Hybrid Data Sprint  in Frankfurt (Oder) and Lviv (online)

Tutorials on the Telegram Archive
23.09.: 16:00-18:00 CET  [17:00–19:00 Lviv]

Hands-on work with the Telegram Archive
24.&25.09.: 09:00-17:00 CET [10:00–18:00 Lviv]

• Antrag auf Assoziierung
• Antrag auf Förderung einer Publikation
• Antrag auf Förderung einer Veranstaltung

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI), big data processing, and synthetic media has profoundly reshaped how culture is produced, made sense of, and experienced today. To ‘synthesize’ is to assemble, collate, and compile, blending heterogeneous components into something new. Where there is synthesis, there is power at play. Synthetic media—as exemplified by the oddly prophetic early speech synthesizer demos—carry the logic of analog automation into digital cultures where human and algorithmic interventions converge. Much of the research in this area—spanning subjects as diverse as augmented reality, avatars, and deepfakes—has revolved around ideas of simulation, focusing on the manipulation of data and content people produce and consume. Meanwhile, generative AI and deep learning models, while central to debates on artificiality, raise political questions as part of a wider social ecosystem where technology is perpetually reimagined, negotiated, and contested: What images and stories feed the datasets that contemporary AI models are trained on? Which imaginaries are reproduced through AI-driven media technologies and which remain latent? How do synthetic media transform relations of power and visibility, and what methods—perhaps equally synthetic—can we develop to analyze these transformations? 

The five-day event at the University of Siegen—organized by the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers Media of Cooperation and Transformations of the Popular together with the Center of Digital Narratives in Bergen, the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA and the German National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium NFDI4Culture—explores the relationship between synthetic media and today’s imaginaries of culture and technology, which incorporate AI as an active participant. By “synthetic,” we refer not simply to the artificial but to how specific practices and ways of knowing take shape through human-machine co-creation. Imaginaries, in turn, reflect shared visions, values, and expectations—shaping not only what technologies do but how they are perceived and made actionable in everyday life. 

The event opens with a one-day conference and moves into hands-on workshops and project work. 

Mix questions! Monday, 8 September

Day one begins with a keynote by Jill Walker Rettberg and opens space for emerging questions—think of it as an idea hub. Accepted abstracts will be grouped into thematic sessions curated by the organising team. Presenters will be connected via email ahead of time to coordinate their contributions. Each presentation will be set to 10 minutes to allow ample time for discussion, collective thinking, and exchange. The emphasis is on dialogue, not polished conclusions.  

Mix methods! Tuesday, 9 September-Thursday, 11 September

The next three days—featuring a workshop by Gabriele De Seta and an artistic intervention by Ángeles Briones and DensityDesign Lab—are about exploring new methods—hands-on! We invite you to join a team of interdisciplinary scholars and data designers in probing new methodological combinations. Each of our project teams will present a research question alongside a specific method to be collaboratively explored. Participants will not only learn how to design prompts and work with AI-generated text and images but also how to critically account for genAI models as platform models. All projects draw on intersectional approaches, combining qualitative and quantitative data to explore the synthetic dimensions of AI agency—whether as content creator, noise generator, hallucinator, research collaborator, data annotator, or style imitator. Please bring your laptops. The project titles will be announced soon. 

Synthesize! Friday, 12 September

The final day is dedicated to sharing, reflecting, and synthesizing the questions, methods, and insights developed throughout the week. Project teams will present their collaborative processes, highlight key takeaways, and discuss how their ideas and approaches shifted through hands-on experimentation with methods.

Registration

The event is free of charge, though attendees are responsible for arranging and covering their travel and accommodation in Siegen. Limited travel support is available (two to three stipends ranging from €500 to €700). Early-career researchers and PhD students are invited to apply; stipends will be awarded by the NFDI4Culture consortium based on the strength of the justification, particularly concerning critical ethical engagement with AI research data, as well as the distance and cost of travel. Short summaries of the presented work will be published on the NFDI4Culture website.

A certificate of participation will be issued for both the conference presentation and the hands-on workshop sessions.

The Registration closed on August 1 2025.

The Autumn School is organized by the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers Media of Cooperation (SFB 1187) and Transformations of the Popular (SFB 1472) together with the Center of Digital Narrative in Bergen, the Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA and the German National Research Data Infrastructure Consortium NFDI4Culture – 

This talk will advocate for decomputing as a means to unstitch the shroud of AI which is being draped over our collective futures. It will identify scale as the core logic of contemporary datafication, and the total mobilisation of human and natural resources as its authoritarian consequence. The seams of AI are already visible in its shoddy emulations and violent preemptions, and what peers back through the gaps are forms of eugenic solutionism.

Decomputing acknowledges that even the tokenistic restraints of the liberal rules-based order and its regulatory frameworks have little traction in the current moment. It draws instead on concepts from degrowth and systemic transformation to challenge the inevitability of AI’s accelerationism. Decomputing seeks to apply the intentional seamfulness of conviviality through mechanisms such as the matrix of convivial technology, while recognising that this will require the counter-power of collectively organised resistance. 

Decomputing is an assembly point for all those drawn into conflict with AI’s technopolitics, such as environmental, feminist and decolonical social movements. In particular, it seeks to develop situated forms of social decision-making that disable future attempts at a computationally-assisted coup d’etat.

Dan McQuillan is a Lecturer in Creative and Social Computing. He has a degree in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from Imperial College, London. After his PhD he was a support worker for people with learning disabilities and volunteered as a mental health advocate, informing people in psychiatric detention about their rights. In the early days of the world wide web, he started a pioneering website to provide translated information for asylum seekers and refugees. When open source hardware sensors started appearing he co-founded a citizen science project in Kosovo, supporting politically excluded young people to measure pollution levels and get the issue of air quality onto their national agenda. After a stint working in the NHS he joined Amnesty International and created their first digital directorate. Dan has been involved in many grassroots social movements such as the campaign against the Poll Tax in the UK, and in environmental activism. He was part of the international movement in Genoa in 2001 which was protesting against the G8 and calling for an alternative globalisation that included justice for both people and planet. During the first wave of Covid-19 he helped to start a local mutual aid group where he lives in North London. Dan recently authored Resisting AI—An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hacking, queering, countering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

• Antrag auf Assoziierung
• Antrag auf Förderung einer Publikation
• Antrag auf Förderung einer Veranstaltung

Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.

Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.

more information coming soon

lead by Dr. Annette Klinkert (city2science)

Part #4: Stakeholder Engagement and Engagement Formats

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4

About the lecture series

In the lecture series Unstitching Datafication, artists, activists, and scholars explore how digital technologies can be un- and re-stitched by working on their seams. Moving beyond the destructive aspect inherent to unstitching seams and networks, they ask how social and economic relations have been and can be reconfigured by technology in the first place and be deconstructed and transformed through practices of hacking, queering, countering, and resisting datafication and data colonialism – be it through technical manipulations, artistic interventions, or activist action. Inspired by the seam ripper figure and historical forms of technological resistance, the lecture series shows how artists, activists, and scholars work along the edges and boundaries of digital systems. more ➞

Das Teilprojekt B05 „(Frühe) Kindheit und Smartphone“ lädt zu einem neuen Format ein, bei dem aktuelle Filme aus der laufenden Forschung des Projekts mit Textfragmenten aus Merleau-Pontys Klassiker „Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung“ zusammen betrachtet werden. Gemeinsam mit dem Mercator Fellow Jürgen Streeck werden die gezeigten Filmausschnitte und die phänomenologische Perspektive aufeinander bezogen.

Bitte melden Sie sich für die betreffende Veranstaltung an. Links zu den Filmen und Textauszügen werden eine Woche vor der Veranstaltung verschickt. Anmeldung bei Maria Espinosa Treiber unter: maria.etreiber[at]student.uni-siegen.de

Ein Sprachspiel zum ‚Animieren‘ als hervorbringende Interaktionspraktik

mit Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin), Ehler Voss (Universität Bremen, Worlds of Contradiction) sowie Hendrik Bender, Jutta Wiesemann, Astrid Vogelpohl und Hoa Mai Trần (Uni Siegen, SFB 1187).

Anmeldungen bitte bis zum 20. Juni 2025 an Astrid Vogelpohl.

Zum Blicklabor ‚Animieren‘

Im digitalen Alltag von Kindern beobachten wir im Projekt „(Frühe) Kindheit und Smartphone“ vielfältige Interaktionen zwischen Wesen aller Art. Kinder gehen dabei in ihrem Tun spielerisch mit den Grenzen üblicher Kategorisierungen um. Ob etwas als lebendig, digital, menschlich oder tierisch gelten kann, erweist sich erst im Tun. ‚Etwas‘ kann mal dies, mal das sein, im ‚als ob‘ des Spiels. ‚Animieren‘ kam uns in den Sinn, als ein Begriff, der auf Interaktion als Prozess wechselseitigen Hervorbringens verweist, in dem permanent etwas zu etwas ‚gemacht‘ wird.

Eine animistische Weltsicht, die aus einer traditionell modernen Perspektive als kindlich (Jean Piaget, Das Weltbild des Kindes, 1926) oder primitiv (Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, 1871) angesehen wird, erfährt aktuell eine Umdeutung. Anthropologen wie Tim Ingold, die die Welt als in einem permanenten Prozess des Werdens befindlich ansehen, betrachten Lebendigkeit nicht als Eigenschaft von Personen, sondern vielmehr als „dynamic, transformative potential of the entire field of relations within which beings of all kinds, more or less person-like or thing-like, continually and reciprocally bring one another into existence“ (Ingold 2006, S. 10). So wird ‚Animieren‘ zu einem ‚doing‘ der Welterzeugung.

Im Blicklabor wollen wir anhand kurzer Filme aus unterschiedlichen Forschungsfeldern den Begriff ‚animieren‘ umspielen. Wir verfolgen dabei eine in unserer kamera-ethnographischen Forschungspraxis entstandene Orientierung an Wittgensteins Sprachspiel-Ansatz (grammatische Untersuchung), die wir in eine ‚zeigende Grammatik‘ umwandeln (Mohn, 2023). Indem wir Praktikenbündel (Schatzki 2002) und ihre Umgebungen identifizieren, wird ein Zugang zur jeweiligen Situierung von ‚Animieren‘ eröffnet. Das Spektrum an Situierungen wiederum bietet die Basis für eine praxeologische Konturierung von ‚Animieren‘ als Praxis und Begriff.

Programm

9:30 Come together

10:00 Begrüßung (Jutta Wiesemann)

10:10 Zum Hinschauen animieren – Die kurze Form als Grundlage kollaborativen arrangierenden Forschens (Astrid Vogelpohl)

10:20 Inter-Animation – Tactile Empathy, Mimesis, and Gesture (Jürgen Streeck)

Ich interessiere mich für die besondere Art von „Inter-Animalität“ und „Inter-Affektivität“, die wir mit anderen Lebewesen durch Berührung erreichen können, und wie diese Fähigkeit mit unseren umfassenderen mimetischen Fähigkeiten zusammenhängt. Der Mensch ist für seine außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit zur Nachahmung bekannt, und es wurde behauptet, dass Kultur durch „allgegenwärtiges Kopieren“ übertragen und akkumuliert wird. Ich interessiere mich mehr für die Tiefe der Mimesis als eine Form der Interkorporalität, d. h. für die Formen und Grade des gegenseitigen Empfindens, die verschiedene Formen der körperlichen Ko-Präsenz und Interaktion ermöglichen, und für die Rolle der „En-Kinästhesie“ (Stuart 2017) oder der kinästhetischen Resonanz dabei. Aufgrund der „phänomenologischen Reduktion“, die sie mit sich bringt, da sie den Zugang zu Worten oder psychologischen Zuschreibungen ausschließt, bin ich neugierig, wie Interaffektivität in Interaktionen mit nicht- menschlichen Tieren erreicht und erlebt wird.

10:40 Das Unsichtbare animieren – Medienpraktiken des Ghost Hunting (Ehler Voss)

Ghost Hunting ist eine mediumistische Praxis in der Tradition des Spiritismus, mit der in einer Mischung aus religiöser Anrufung, kommerzialisiertem Entertainment und wissenschaftlichem Anspruch mit gewöhnlich spielerischem Ernst versucht wird, Kontakt zu meist menschenähnlichen Geistern aufzunehmen und mit ihnen mehr oder wenig phatisch zu kommunizieren. Mit Hilfe des menschlichen Körpers und verschiedener technischer Mess- und anderer Geräte wird versucht, das Unsichtbare zu animieren, sich sichtbar, hörbar, fühlbar und identifizierbar zu machen. In einzelnen kurzen Filmsequenzen werden die Bündel der Praktiken nachvollzogen, mit denen der Kontakt sowohl ge- als auch immer wieder misslingt.

11:00 Animierende Blicke – Das Verhältnis von Blick und Bewegung in der Interaktion mit Drohnen (Hendrik Bender)

Drohnen in Form kleiner sensorgestützter und mit Kamera versehener Quadrocopter sind längst fester Bestandteil unserer alltäglichen Bilderwelten geworden. Jedoch gerade in der frühen Phase freizeitlich genutzter Drohnen war der Blick nicht auf die durch sie ermöglichten Aufnahmen gerichtet, sondern auf die Drohne selbst. Drohnen treten hier als agentische Medien in Erscheinung, die durch ihre selbständig ausgeführten Bewegungen – das Schweben, Manövrieren und Verfolgen – den Anschein eines Eigenlebens erregen. Doch was animiert die Drohne zu ihren Bewegungen? Was nimmt sie von ihrer Umgebung und ihren Nutzer*innen wahr? Und umgekehrt, was macht die Drohne mit ihren Nutzer*innen? Der Impulsvortrag stellt das Verhältnis von Blick und Bewegung in der Interaktion mit Drohnen in den Vordergrund und fragt, in welche Beziehung der Begriff des Animierens mit Ansätzen von Agentschaft gebracht werden kann.

11:20 Animierte, animierende Kindheiten – mehr-als-menschliche Interaktion (Astrid Vogelpohl und Hoa Mai Trần)

Kinder begegnen in ihrem Alltag zunehmend digitalen, animierten Figuren. Animierte Charaktere bewegen sich in Filmen über Displays und lassen sich in Spielen darüber bewegen, Roboterhunde und andere digitale Gegenstände, Dinge und Spielzeugbevölkern die Kinderzimmer. Angeregt durch diese Beobachtungen begann uns zu interessieren, wie, nicht nur in digitalen Settings, Akteure auf unterschiedliche Weisen miteinander interagieren, voneinander animiert werden und wie dabei etwas zu etwas ‚gemacht‘ wird. ‚Animieren‘ erscheint uns dabei als ein Begriff, mit dem sich die vielfältige wechselseitige Aktivierung/Stimulation sowie emotionale Affizierung und Aufladung in Interaktion analytisch fassen lässt.

11:40 Kaffee-Pause

12:00 Diskussion der Impulse zum „Animieren“

12:45 Mittagspause

13:30 – 14:30 Werkstattphase

14:30 Kaffeeepause

14:45 – 15:45 Bestandsaufnahme Animieren und seine Zeigbarkeit (Moderation Jutta Wiesemann)

15:45 Abschluss, Ausblick

Referenzen

Ingold, Tim (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840600603111

Mohn, Bina E. (2023). Kamera-Ethnographie – Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis. Transcript.

Piaget, Jean (1926). La représentation du monde chez l’enfant, Alcan: Paris 1926, 424 S. (dt. Das Weltbild des Kindes, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 1978, 311 S.)

Schatzki, Theodore. (2002). The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change. Bibliovault OAI Repository, the University of Chicago Press.

Tylor, Edward Burnett (1871). Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom: Volume 1. Cambridge library collection. Anthropology.

Abstract:

This conference addresses the interfacing of sensor-driven assistive technologies with embodied multisensoriality in interaction, investigating how and when Dis-Abilities are established and made relevant, as well as questioned or maintained within social practices and interaction orders. Drawing on Critical Disability Studies as well as on Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology, the conference aims at approaching “disabling worlds” in social, political, cultural as well as praxeological terms, instead of reproducing stereotypes and medical ascriptions of physical deficiencies to individuals – considering that, still, “disability remains a contested concept” (Seale 2024). Against this background, assistive technology (AT), and assistive sensor technologies in particular, play an ambivalent role in everyday practices between enabling participation and reifying marginalization, by promising to improve a person’s “functional capabilities,” while oftentimes relying on deficit models of interaction and technology for doing so. While other tensions might be mentioned (e.g., “specialist” versus “mainstream” technologies), alternative models should be considered as well, and be embedded in political agendas and infrastructural improvements (e.g., discussing “universal design,” enabling “access for all”). The conference invites empirical studies and theoretical re-specification of disabilities in interaction by viewing AT as “media of cooperation.” Just how do these media rely on embodied sensorial practices? And how are they ongoingly accomplished in social interaction? How does the body itself become a media of cooperation? To tackle these and related questions, the conference takes its cue from current research in ethnomethodological and conversation analytical studies of asymmetric and “atypical” interactions. Homing in on “sensing issues” in and around, if not against AT and assistive sensor (and action-enabling) technologies, the conference brings together a range of empirical studies to revisit and relocate – in short, respecify – the indicated issues, outlined ambivalences, lingering problems, and possible solutions. 

lead by Dr. Verena Molitor & Dr. Annika Kreikenbohm (city2science)

Part #3: Communication Strategies and Pathways to Impact

About the Science Communication & Public Engagement Series #1-4