Author’s Workshop “Taming digital practices – On the domestication of data-driven technologies”
How should we regard and reconsider the concept of domestication? Why should we regard domestic media practices involving digital media technologies as data practices? What exactly is meant taming and how does this potentially differ from domesticating?
The author’s workshop “Taming digital practices – On the domestication of data-driven technologies“ addresses these questions and further investigates the concept of domestication. It relates to the eponymous Special Issue 01/2023 of Digital Culture and Society, which proposes that by producing and depending on data, data practices tame data-driven technologies to fit into everyday life.
The workshop supports the contributors of the special issue with feedback during the writing process, supplementing the journal’s double-blind peer review process by offering a multidisciplinary perspective beforehand.
A public keynote by Prof. Dr. Maren Hartmann (Universität der Künste, Berlin) titled “Domestication Theory or Domesticating Theory? Some Reflections on the Life of a Concept” opens the workshop with reflections on practices of domesticating technologies and theory.
The workshop takes place on 7th and 8th of February 2022 and is organised by Tanja Ertl, Tim Hector, Niklas Strüver and David Waldecker, all researchers of the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”.