Research Tech lab SoSe 2019

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

Session 1 - “Time management and organizing workflow”

• Intro to the SoSe 2019: 
  • We will quickly walk through the syllabus;
  • Gaia Mosconi and Philipp Schubert will present the methods and tools catalog - built in the social platform “Research Hub” - and based on the input provided in the Techlab Winter Semester 2018/19; 

• After the intro, we will explore the first topic “Time management and organizing workflow”. We will dig more into the issue of productivity, time management, workflow and explore possible best practices. 
  • Timo Kaerlein will show how the CRC coordination is using Trello to support their work;  
  • Gaia Mosconi will show a tool called “Bear” and “Nuclino” both already mentioned in WiSe 2018 but not explored in details. 
  • We invite all of you to show us what works for you the best but also what are your major struggles concerning time management, workflow, and productivity. 

Date: Wednesday, 3rd April

Time: 13.30-15.00

Room: AH-A 228

Research Tech lab SoSe 2019

• Helena Karasti will be our invited speaker. 

• The session will provide two main input:

1. What are the principles of ethnographic research?  (15 min) 
   1. Natural settings, holism, descriptive, member’s point of view 

2. What are the main methods and techniques of ethnography? (15) 
   1. Constructing the field, participatory observation, interviews...

• After each input, we will have a 30 min of plenary discussion.

• We invite all of you who are working with ethnographic methods to join, share and learn together!

Research Tech lab SoSe 2019

• Simon Holdermann will show how to use Citavi for collecting ethnographic fieldnotes and literature management
• Roger Norum will show us Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

Session 4 - “Behind the scenes of ethnography and ethnographic analysis”

• Helena Karasti will be our invited speaker 

• Helena will provide two main input:

1. Behind the scenes of ethnography (15 min): 

2. Ethnographic analysis (15 min) 

• After each input, we will have a 30 min of plenary discussion

• We invite all of you who are working with ethnographic methods to join, share and learn together! 

Date: Wednesday, 15th May

Time: 13.30-15.00

Room: AH-A 228

Session 5 - “Hands on Digital methods”

• James Gien Wong (co-founder of Stop-Reset-Go initiative): presentation of planetary boundaries, related approaches, and plans;
• Ken Carroll (founder of BumpConductor): presentation on BUMP “Big Unsolved Meaningful Problems Worth Solving”;
• Elaboration of KUMU (data visualization platform to organize complex information)
• Hands-on time with KUMU (www.kumu.io) to create interactive relationship maps; BUMPS to tackle will be selected according to research priorities of the participants (priorities to be collected from participants before the session, readings will also be provided)  

Projekte zur Technologiegestaltung für ältere Menschen sind zunehmend interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und verbinden Forschende aus den verschiedensten technischen, geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen sowie pflegerisch-medizinischen Bereichen. Die Auslotung von Kooperationen zwischen gerontologischer und technischer Forschung sowie entsprechend interessierten und engagierten Unternehmen liegt im genuinen Interesse sowohl des DGGG-Fachausschusses Alter und Technik als auch des SFB-Teilprojekts Kooperative Herstellung von Nutzerautonomie im Kontext der alternden Gesellschaft. Die Zusammenarbeit in heterogenen Kooperationsverbünden stellt allerdings alle beteiligten Akteur*innen oftmals vor große Herausforderungen in der Überwindung der eigenen Disziplingrenzen. Viele Aspekte der Zusammenarbeit auf der konkreten Projektebene werden häufig eher pragmatisch ausgehandelt. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass die Art der Zusammenarbeit in interdisziplinären Konsortien durchaus einen bedeutsamen Einfluss auf die Qualität des zu gestaltenden Produkts nehmen kann. Die Forschungspraktiken und Modi der Kooperation sind allerdings bisher nur selten Gegenstand der wissenschaftlichen Analyse und Reflektion im Rahmen von Forschungs- und Gestaltungsprojekten.

Ebenso wird die Integration von „End-Nutzer*innen“ zunehmend gefordert, beispielsweise unter Einbezug von Konzepten des nutzerorientierten Designs, der Partizipation und realweltlicher Forschungssettings, z.B. Living Labs. Wie allerdings Nutzer*innen-Integration, Datensammlung und -auswertung aus den empirischen Arbeitspaketen in die Formulierung von Anforderungen und schließlich in Hard- und Softwarekonzepten münden bedarf vieler (auch kreativer) Aushandlungs- und Verständigungsschritte. Diese Schritte der Projektarbeit bleiben jedoch häufig unsichtbar oder werden ignoriert und als vermeintlich „nicht wissenschaftlich“ oder „nicht relevant“ abgetan.

Die Arbeitstagung möchte ein Forum bieten, aktuelle Formen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Forschenden verschiedener Disziplinen untereinander, mit Industrie- und Verbands-vertreter*innen und weiteren Stakeholdern, aber auch mit Endnutzer*innen-Gruppen intensiv zu beleuchten und zu reflektieren. Austausch- und Diskussionsprozesse sollen deshalb im Rahmen der Konferenz viel Raum finden.

Tagungsleitung:

• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller (Universität Siegen & Careum School of Health Sciences, Zürich),
• Martin Dickel M.A. (Universität Siegen),
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kricheldorff (Katholische Hochschule Freiburg),
• PD Dr. Helga Pelizäus-Hoffmeister (Universität der Bundeswehr München),
• Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Wahl (Universität Heidelberg).

Weitere Informationen zum Tagungsprogramm und zur Anmeldung folgen in Kürze.

Session 6 - “ Platform design for collaborative research”

• Asli Telli will show the backbone of Mapping Funds project (www.mappingfunds.com) and elaborate on the file-sharing, web infrastructure and external gadget embeds. She will also comment on the challenges and learning curve related to an open-source learning management system (https://coworkingsquares.de/en-US) they have adapted in their research platform for collaborative teams. 

• Gaia Mosconi, Philipp Schubert, and other colleagues will show what they have learned about platforms development for research collaboration in the last two years.  They used eXo first (https://www.exoplatform.com/company/community-faq/) and now HumHub (https://humhub.org/en) as Open Source software. 

Healing is a cooperative practice that involves multiple agents and requires negotiations of different needs and potentials. These negotiations are usually based on asymmetrical relations between healer and patient. Without specific expertise, skills, and knowledge of healing, there would be no need for consultation, and often patients are looking exactly for such an asymmetric relation to put themselves in the hands of an authority they can trust. Nevertheless, this asymmetry has often been criticized, especially in the realm of modern biomedicine and psychology, and especially in the context of chronic and rare diseases. Professional dominance (Freidson 1970) and a paternalistic imbalance in healer-patient relationships have thus led to an increasing claim for shared decision making and informed consent in order to empower the patient vis-à-vis her or his healer. The aim is to develop therapies and forms of interaction that explicitly seek to re-balance the relationship by taking into account the patients’ knowledge (as e.g. in many psychological therapies), or even trying to turn the asymmetric healer-patient relationship around and calling for full responsibility of patients themselves (e.g. in many esoteric therapies).

The Internet offers new possibilities for getting information and sharing experiences about the inefficacy or even harmfulness of popular and officially accepted therapies, on the one hand, and the efficacy of unknown and unconventional approaches, on the other, which may lead to distrust of professional or institutional authorities. Thus, patients can develop many strategies to carry out their own ideas and plans against a healer’s advice, if they disagree about the cause of the illness and the right course of treatment. Such strategies also may include simulating or neglecting specific symptoms to get a desired prescription, to avoid a specific treatment, or to get a temporary or permanent certificate of illness.

But empowerment is ambivalent. Patients are often torn between trust and suspicion, between the wish to be guided by experts and the wish to become an expert on their own, to give up or to keep responsibility for their health. Too much information can turn empowerment into confusion, and empowerment can also turn into manipulation, e.g. when pharmaceutical companies encourage patients to ask their healers for the drugs they sell (cf. Dumit 2012). Thus, empowerment is hardly straightforward. For instance, in which direction is empowerment oriented? Is it an extension of the patients’ biomedical knowledge? Or does it facilitate increasing demands from doctors, who are approached by patients who figure as consumers or customers? Does it include the right to remain a passive patient? Empowerment does not necessarily pit an autonomous patient against a dominant physician. This mélange opens up questions about the modes and means of empowerment. Who, beyond patients, has an interest in empowerment? Are Internet media engines of emancipation or sources of irritation?

After focusing on the healer’s perspectives and practices at the conference “Preparing for Patients. Learning the skills and values of healing encounters” in 2018, we now focus on the patient’s side and look for descriptions and analyses of their perspective and practices. We call for contributions that explore the ambivalences of empowerment both theoretically and empirically. We especially look for insights into the distributed nature of empowerment, the different constellations in which empowerment might be generated or reduced. Which resources are used to increase or to prevent the empowerment of patients, and which resources are used by the patients themselves? And what are the unanticipated consequences of empowerment?

Keynote: Prof. Nick Fox (University of Sheffield)

Conference language: English

Abstract submission deadline: March 11, 2019

Session 7 - “Security and ethics: towards guidelines for data management”

• We will brainstorm and map concerns related to data security and ethics. We will identify practices that we perform during the research process and check in which ways those practices are in synergies with security and ethical issues. 

• The aim of the session will be to develop together guidelines for data management that will take into account and express the most important concerns. 

• The guidelines should be useful to work in a team as well as guide oneself for data management. 

 

MoneyLab #6 Conference

Infrastructures of Money

University of Siegen | 7-8 March 2019

About

The MoneyLab network was founded by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. MoneyLab considers, critiques and intervenes within our new digital economy. It is a network of artists, activists, and geeks experimenting with forms of financial democratisation in contexts such as crowdfunding, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, cashless society, and Universal Basic Income. We question persistent beliefs, from Calvinist austerity, growth, and up-scaling, to trustless automated decision-making and freedom on the dark web, from (anarcho-)capitalist dreams of the days of yore to the special sauce of neoliberal entrepreneurialism and its right-wing libertarian counterparts.

The black box of finance has been etched into the imagination of the public and there has rarely been a more generous context to manifest working alternatives for the 99%. Cooperative platforms, decentralised technologies and direct democracy movements indicate profound attempts to rebalance the distribution of wealth and power. As resistance towards poverty, precarity, tax havens, algorithmic speculation, and financial crimes grows, the challenge ahead is to find ways to improve and sustain such financial experiments and to intervene in current debates both inside and outside of our established political systems.

Before arriving in Siegen, MoneyLab has included 5 international conferences and 2 globally distributed readers:

MoneyLab #1 – Coining Alternatives: Amsterdam, 2014

MoneyLab #2 – Economies of Dissent: Amsterdam, 2015

MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, 2015

MoneyLab #3 – Failing Better: Amsterdam, 2016

MoneyLab Reader #2: Overcoming the Hype, 2018

MoneyLab #4 – Art, Culture, and Financial Activism: London, 2018

MoneyLab #5 – Matters of Currency: Buffalo, NY, 2018

Program

Die Liste des UNESCO-Welterbes verzeichnet Natur- und Kulturerbestätten, die dem Selbstverständnis dieses Programms gemäß aufgrund ihres „außergewöhnlichen universellen Werts“ von Bedeutung für die gesamte Menschheit sind. In dem Vortrag werde ich die These vertreten, dass der spezifische Produktionsmodus des UNESCO-Welterbes eine praktische Universalisierung von Wert darstellt. Unter „Universalisierung“ wird dabei eine Vermittlungsarbeit verstanden, die konkrete Stätten mit der Vorstellung ihres geteilten Wertes für die gesamte Menschheit in Beziehung setzt. Diese Arbeit der „Universalisierung“ beruht sowohl auf vielfältigen Praktiken des Identifizierens, des Darstellens, des Vergleichens und des Bewertens als auch auf heterogenen Medien wie Bildschirmen, Word-Dokumenten, Kriterien, Listen etc. Unter Verwendung von Daten aus meinem laufenden ethnografischen Forschungsprojekt werde ich beleuchten, wie Welterbestätten identifiziert, zugeschnitten, bewertet, kurz: „gemacht“ werden.

Wenn Bodentruppen bei Gefahr Drohnen zur Luftunterstützung anfordern, stehen deren Piloten vor der Herausforderung, die Völkerrechtskonformität des eigenen Angriffs sicherzustellen. Dazu müssen sowohl feindliche Kämpfer („military aged males“) als auch Waffen und feindliche Aktivitäten identifiziert werden. An der hierzu erfolgenden epistemischen Kommunikation sind mehrere Stellen beteiligt, die über den ganzen Globus verteilt sind, verschiedene Wissensstände aufweisen und unterschiedlichen Zugang zu Medien besitzen, die Informationen – etwa durch Kameraaufnahmen aus der Luft – verfügbar machen. Im Vortrag werde ich demonstrieren, wie die erforderlichen Wissensobjekte auf der Basis der medialen Information in verteilter Kognition identifiziert und ratifiziert werden und welche Rolle die sequenzielle Interaktionsdynamik bei der Entscheidung für oder gegen einen Luftschlag spielt.

If ground forces request drones for air support in the event of hazard, their pilots face the challenge of securing the conformity of their own attack with public international law. For that to happen, enemy combatants (“military aged males”), weapons and hostile activity have to be identified. Multiple authorities take part in this epistemic communication. They are disseminated over the whole globe and have different states of knowledge and different access to media which again provide different information – e.g. through aerial camera shots. In this lecture I will demonstrate how the necessary knowledge objects get identified and ratified by distributed cognition based on medial information, and which role the sequential organizational dynamics play in deciding for or against an air strike.

Wenn Bodentruppen bei Gefahr Drohnen zur Luftunterstützung anfordern, stehen deren Piloten vor der Herausforderung, die Völkerrechtskonformität des eigenen Angriffs sicherzustellen. Dazu müssen sowohl feindliche Kämpfer („military aged males“) als auch Waffen und feindliche Aktivitäten identifiziert werden. An der hierzu erfolgenden epistemischen Kommunikation sind mehrere Stellen beteiligt, die über den ganzen Globus verteilt sind, verschiedene Wissensstände aufweisen und unterschiedlichen Zugang zu Medien besitzen, die Informationen – etwa durch Kameraaufnahmen aus der Luft – verfügbar machen. Im Vortrag werde ich demonstrieren, wie die erforderlichen Wissensobjekte auf der Basis der medialen Information in verteilter Kognition identifiziert und ratifiziert werden und welche Rolle die sequenzielle Interaktionsdynamik bei der Entscheidung für oder gegen einen Luftschlag spielt. If ground forces request drones for air support in the event of hazard, their pilots face the challenge of securing the conformity of their own attack with public international law. For that to happen, enemy combatants (“military aged males”), weapons and hostile activity have to be identified. Multiple authorities take part in this epistemic communication. They are disseminated over the whole globe and have different states of knowledge and different access to media which again provide different information – e.g. through aerial camera shots. In this lecture I will demonstrate how the necessary knowledge objects get identified and ratified by distributed cognition based on medial information, and which role the sequential organizational dynamics play in deciding for or against an air strike.

Louise Amoore (Durham) on  "Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Others"

The techniques deployed in deep neural net algorithms to condense the features of a scene to an output of meaning – “a man is throwing a Frisbee in a park”, “a woman is standing at the border fence with a crowd in the background” – give an account of the ethico-politics of algorithms for our times. The output of the algorithms reduces the intractable difficulties and duress of living, the undecidability of what could be happening in a scene, into a single human-readable and actionable meaning. We have ethical and political relationships with other beings in the world because the meaning of those relations, their mediation through every scene of life, cannot be condensed. It is precisely irreducible. And so, at the very moment that the algorithm outputs a single meaning from an irreducible scene, there is also at this border limit a “clause of nonclosure”, as Derrida describes the opening of context. How does one begin to locate the points of nonclosure within the algorithm’s programme of meaning-making? In contrast to the widespread search for ethical limits of the actions of algorithms, I propose a cloud ethics that is concerned with the formation of relations to oneself and to others. Are there counter-methods of attention available to us that could resist the frameworks of attention of machine learning? Amid the technologies of the attribute, what remains of that which is unattributable in the scene?

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Standards are not easy to come by. As infrastructural media they coordinate the social to an ever-growing extent, thus creating conditions of cooperation. Standards do so not just by their sociotechnical power, but also by public uptake and controversies that put their accountability into question. They can also be understood as engineering and bureaucratic media that form a basis and condition for cooperation.

Historically, practices of standardization can be traced back to antiquity, especially in the history of coins, writing, and measurements. But pre-modern standards were bound to flounder and dissipate. Early modern knowledge cultures – partly – realized standardization via hand-made scientific instruments that extended metrological chains. While pre-industrial attempts to standardize the aggregation of information in administrative forms have been limited in scale and scope, 19th century industrialization interconnected with nationalized politics extended the territories of standardization. Media infrastructures such as the postal service and telegraphy became transnational through their administration in international organizations and a legal foundation via international treaties. Scale and scope of – inherently political and normative – standards and metrologies were at the same time constitutive for colonial prospection and rule.

Computing has given rise to its own regimes and obsessions of non-governmental standardizing. While early digital computers were unique, the trajectories of standardization were then tied to governmental contract research, commercialization and its coordinative and delegative practices. Serial production and the diffusion of architectural norms became a matter of economic competition in the era of mainframe computing in organizations. In multiple ways both the networking of heterogeneous computers and the success of the IBM-compatible PC did create a pathway to “open standards” that made computers publicly accessible. In the transpacific and global arena of hardware and software production, hyper-standardization has been an issue ever since. This also involves the questions of formats that mediate bureaucratic processes, textual representation, visual and auditory perception, and digital audiovisuality. Formats thus have become standards that mediate digital practices in their own right, just like network protocols and Internet standards. In many ways, the ecology of the World Wide Web is an ecology due to its standardizing bodies, communities of practice, and institutions like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Our aim is to understand how standards generalize and universalize media technologies, and to ask: How do metrology, industrialization, and imperialism/colonialism intersect with standards? What is the relation between standards, digital media, and coordination? How to explain the longue durée, ecology, and the enduring power of standards to configure cooperation? What is the relation between standards, delegative power, scale, and scope of media?

The winter school is a collaboration between the University of Siegen (Inka Fürtig & Jutta Wiesemann; CRC Media of Cooperation) and KU Leuven (Samira Alirezabeigi & Mathias Decuypere; Methodology of educational sciences). The winter school addresses  a common research interest shared between the two research groups: How to scrutinize the role of digital devices in different social situations? Starting from this general interest, the winter school aims to address challenges associated with researching ‘the digital’ in a variety of contexts. In a half-day event, and by means of cooperative discussions between a selective group of ethnographers, the winter school more precisely focuses on the research phases after ethnographic data have been collected, i.e. phases of (and challenges associated with) ethnographic data analysis and interpretation.

Research Tech lab WISE 2018

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 7 “Help Desk”

• Final open problems session! Participants are invited to bring current research challenges that can then be collectively addressed by pooling knowledge on methods/tools
• bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools, methods and problems!

Fixed time: Tuesday 14.15 - 15.45

Fixed Room: AH- A 210/211

Cristina Alaimo (Surrey) on "Infrastructures of Automation: Data Objects, Metrics and Practices in the Programmatic Advertising Ecosystem"

Programmatic advertising is a large scale, real-time bidding process, whereby ads are automatically assigned to available spaces across types of media and geographic regions upon an individual user’s browser request. The large-scale automation of programmatic advertising requires the establishment of standards and the development of technologies to govern the behavior of market participants (sellers, buyers, intermediaries). We present evidence on the rules of programmatic exchange and on the role played by a specific class of digital objects. We focus in particular on the metrics to which these objects are linked and how they define what is exchanged and the parameters of these exchanges. We furthermore demonstrate that the metrics and the technological complexes associated with them are constituted by the institutionalfield of digital advertising and its complex technological infrastructure. Rather than being simply means to monitor a pre-existing reality ‘out there’ (such as user or audience behavior) these metrics and techniques bring forward their own reality and heavily impact upon and shape the objects and processes of digital advertising. 

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, and have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. A social movement of engineers created this increasingly complex, worldwide system through three waves of institutional innovation beginning in the 1880s. The engineers initially aimed to prove their status as professionals by doing something that governments rarely wanted to do and markets typically failed to do — create useful standards. They created principles of balanced participation by multiple stakeholders and developed a process to reach consensus on standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers and would satisfy the manufacturer’s corporate customers. By the 1920s, the standardizers thought of themselves as critical to national prosperity and world peace. After World War II, a second, increasingly international wave of the standardization movement transcended wartime enmities and Cold War divisions to create standards that made the global economy possible. Since 1990, a new generation of standardizers has launched a third wave, focusing on standardizing the Internet and Web and applying the same standard setting process to private regulation of the environmental and social downsides of globalization.

Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, and have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. A social movement of engineers created this increasingly complex, worldwide system through three waves of institutional innovation beginning in the 1880s. The engineers initially aimed to prove their status as professionals by doing something that governments rarely wanted to do and markets typically failed to do — create useful standards. They created principles of balanced participation by multiple stakeholders and developed a process to reach consensus on standards that would be widely adopted by manufacturers and would satisfy the manufacturer’s corporate customers. By the 1920s, the standardizers thought of themselves as critical to national prosperity and world peace. After World War II, a second, increasingly international wave of the standardization movement transcended wartime enmities and Cold War divisions to create standards that made the global economy possible. Since 1990, a new generation of standardizers has launched a third wave, focusing on standardizing the Internet and Web and applying the same standard setting process to private regulation of the environmental and social downsides of globalization.

Shintaro Miyazaki (Basel) on "Below the Data is the Signal – A (Marxist) Rhythmanalysis of Data in Motion"

In the lecture I will update my work based on the notion of algorhythmics – which was inspired by the context of German media archaeology (Wolfgang Ernst) and was extended towards the notion of media ecology – with new aspects inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s work on pattern discrimination and habitual media. The lecture is thus highly preliminary and builds an important step for me in order to extend media archaeology towards a critique of techno-capitalism and media (design) activism. 

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Vortrag und Diskussion mit Stefan Weidner (Köln) - "Aufklärung und Kosmopolitismus: Orient"

Der zweite Vortrag von Stefan Weidner beginnt mit einem Ausflug nach Marrakesch. Die Frage nach Kosmopolitismus und Aufklärung im Islam oder „Orient“ erschließt sich aus der konkreten Anschauung. In den Assoziationen, die sich dabei einstellen, gibt sich die Kulturgeschichte eines kosmopolitischen Islams zu erkennen. Die Konfrontation mit der Moderne entpuppt sich als Bruch mit der älteren muslimischen Geschichte und den darin liegenden Ansätzen zu einer Aufklärung in vormoderner Gestalt. Die vielbeschworene Dialektik der Aufklärung ist in die islamische Welt importiert worden und bewirkt, dass Islamkritiker und islamische Fundamentalisten einander spiegeln, indem sie einem essentialistischen Bild des Islams aufsitzen.

Stefan Weidner studierte Islamwissenschaften, Germanistik und Philosophie in Göttingen, Damaskus, Berkeley und Bonn und lebt heute als Autor, Literaturkritiker und Übersetzer (v.a. aus dem Arabischen) in Köln. Von 2001 – 2016 war er Chefredakteur der auf Arabisch, Englisch und Farsi herausgegebenen Kulturzeitschrift Fikrun wa Fann/Art&Thought. Als Autor schreibt Stefan Weidner in den Genres Essay, Reiseerzählung, Kulturkritik und Islamwissenschaft. Er ist Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Mitglied der deutschen Sektion des Pen-Clubs und Gründungsmitglied der Akademie der Künste der Welt zu Köln.

Apps are becoming increasingly important in nearly all areas of societal life, including education. However, up till now critical research has hardly ever undertaken up-close analyses of educational apps. This  presentation provides an extensive analysis of one ‘learning to code’ app, developed by Google, called Grasshopper. Drawing on the field of Science and Technology Studies, the presentation proposes a theoretical framework that situates app analyses at the intersection of apps’ ecologies, technologies, subjectivities and learning regimes. In doing so, the presentation examines 'learning to code' through its concrete sociomaterial practices, and the specific algorithmic practices and processes of user configuration that are employed in order to bring about such learning.

Research Tech lab WISE 2018 

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 6 “Work-around strategies: What if there is no tool/method available?”

How to flexible and innovative in certain areas where methods and tools are not available.

• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!
• bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and your strategies!

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Vortrag und Diskussion mit Stefan Weidner (Köln) - "Aufklärung und Kosmopolitismus: Okzident"

Seit jeher befinden sich Aufklärung und Kosmopolitismus in einem produktiven Spannungsverhältnis. Angesichts der politischen und weltanschaulichen Auseinandersetzungen der Gegenwart brechen diese Spannungen wieder auf, wie sich an Fragen der Grenzpolitik und der Zuwanderung aus der islamischen Welt zeigt. Dabei berufen sich zwar die meisten politischen Lager auf die Aufklärung, aber nur wenige auf den Kosmopolitismus. Im ersten seiner beiden Vorträge unternimmt es Stefan Weidner, einige grundlegende Texte zu diesem Thema einer neuen Betrachtung zu unterziehen und das Verhältnis von Kosmopolitismus und Aufklärung vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Fragestellungen zeitgemäß zu bestimmen.

Stefan Weidner studierte Islamwissenschaften, Germanistik und Philosophie in Göttingen, Damaskus, Berkeley und Bonn und lebt heute als Autor, Literaturkritiker und Übersetzer (v.a. aus dem Arabischen) in Köln. Von 2001 – 2016 war er Chefredakteur der auf Arabisch, Englisch und Farsi herausgegebenen Kulturzeitschrift Fikrun wa Fann/Art&Thought. Als Autor schreibt Stefan Weidner in den Genres Essay, Reiseerzählung, Kulturkritik und Islamwissenschaft. Er ist Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Mitglied der deutschen Sektion des Pen-Clubs und Gründungsmitglied der Akademie der Künste der Welt zu Köln.

the SFB "Media of Cooperation", the Graduate School "Locating Media" and the Seminar of Media Studies at the University of Siegen would like to cordially invite you to a year-end event on Tuesday, December 18 that aims at connecting the various strands of media research in Siegen. The Motto is "Celebrating Cooperation. Connecting Media Research in Siegen".

Drinks are available for sale at the bar, Lorenz Gilli and Cornelius Schubert have kindly agreed to provide some music entertainment. A more detailed program will follow shortly before the event. Please mark the date in your calendars, we are looking forward to seeing all of you in Siegen on December 18!

Celebrating-final

Research Tech lab WISE 2018 

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 5 “Data visualization”

• description (todo)
• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!
• bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and methods!

Fixed time: Tuesday 14.15 - 15.45

Fixed Room: AH- A 210/211

Over the last decades, scholars have discussed the “Return of the Religious” as to deeply question the narratives of modernity and its disenchantment worldwide (de Vries and Weber 2001). Scholars engaged in an intense debate about the quality and substance of religion, and its mediation in new technical media, and discussed its various forms of transnationalization and diversification in the context of globalization processes (cf. Csordas, 2009; Behrend and Zillinger 2015).

“Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship II” sets out to discuss new communities of practice and enskilment that evolve around techniques of mediumship in an interconnected world. The increased mobility of people and organizations, things, signs and symbols that take part in or reformulate trance practices and spiritual experiences has significantly widened the scope and outreach of adepts of trance, spirit possession and spiritual body arts. The various body techniques, symbols and artifacts play a major role in the re-organization of spirituality on site and contribute to the emergence of transnational spirited publics across time and space. This workshop, and the volume we intend to produce, therefore explores how the “local” and the “global” of religious and spiritual practice is co-produced. We invite all participants to zoom in on how these practices are taught and learned, transformed and re-invented in different settings and to reflect upon „apprenticeship“ as a process of enskilment (Ingold). While enskilment continuous to takes place in context of co-participation, it is increasingly transformed through technologization, standardization and interaction at a distance: co-participation does not necessarily entail co-presence. “Skill” denotes the “know how” of mediumship, the ability to discern, invoke and elaborate mediumistic experiences, while “scale” reminds us of both, (1) the scale, in which mediumistic practices take place and invoke transcendental powers, the Maßstab in German – in which signs, things, and person are drawn together in a ritual setting and, (2) the scale, by which the practitioners reach out to new audiences, clients and cooperation partners - or refuse to do so by delimiting their practices to a certain group of practitioners and their intimate publics. Both aspects are a matter of controversies among academics and practitioners alike and we are looking forward to discuss this along the ethnographic case-studies.

Der Ausstellungsbesuch ersetzt einen regulären Termin des Forschungsforums.

Treffpunkt: 15:45 Uhr vor dem Herrengarten oder direkt am Museum.

Die erste Führung beginnt um 16:15 Uhr.

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Referenzielle Medienpraktiken, wie die Benutzung, Rekontextualisierung und Interpretation vorbestehender Werke im Rahmen von Fanfiction, Sampling, Remix oder Appropriation Art stellen neue Formen kreativen Werkschaffens dar, die zunehmend in den juristischen Fokus rücken, althergebrachte Grundsätze des Urheberrechts ins Wanken bringen und einen weitreichenden  Interessenkonflikt zwischen den Originalurhebern und nachschaffenden Künstlern zu Tage fördern.

Zwar entsteht Neues selten aus dem Nichts. Techniken der Bezugnahme oder der Adaption sind vielmehr seit jeher Grundlage des Kulturverständnisses. Doch es scheint, als ob die Intensität der Bezugnahme sowohl in qualitativer als auch in quantitativer Hinsicht eine Steigerung erfahren hat und eine rechtssichere Beurteilung kaum mehr möglich ist.

Auch das vielbeachtete Sampling-Verfahren „Metall auf Metall“, das die deutschen Gerichte nunmehr seit fast 20 Jahren beschäftigt und mit dem sich – nach einer Vorlage des BGH – aktuell auch der EuGH befassen muss, zeigt, wie schwer es ist, die Grenze zwischen freier Benutzung und unfreier Bearbeitung zu ziehen. Hinzu kommt, dass sich digitale Praktiken der medialen Bezugnahme primär im Internet abspielen, sodass selten nur eine Rechtsordnung betroffen ist.

Vor diesem Hintergrund wollen wir im Rahmen eines eintägigen Symposiums klären, wie die einzelnen Rechtsordnungen in Europa aktuell mit dem Phänomen des derivativen, usergenerierten Werkschaffens umgehen. Zugleich wollen wir aber auch die grundsätzliche Frage stellen, ob es überhaupt ein „Recht auf Referenz“ geben sollte und wie eine mögliche Reform des Urheberrechts praktisch aussehen könnte.

Die Tagung findet im Artur-Woll-Haus in Siegen in Raum AE-A 101-103 statt.

Dass das achtzehnte als das "Jahrhundert der Freundschaft" firmiert, gehört zum common sense literatur-, begriffs- und sozialgeschichtlicher Forschung. Die Freundschaftskonzeptionen seit der frühen Aufklärung und den Moralischen Wochenschriften rechtfertigen dies ebenso wie insbesondere die Empfindsamkeit mit ihrem Freundschaftslob und ihren Freundschaftskreisen und zugehörigen Ritualen, schließlich die folgenden heroisch modellierten Dichterfreundschaften. Als Charakteristikum und wesentliches Moment der Attraktivität der Freundschaftssemantik gilt der ihr seit ihren Anfängen inhärente Gleichheitsbezug. Ständische Ungleichheitsstrukturen überschreitend, fungiert die symmetrisch gedachte Beziehung unter Freunden als Ideal und soll Individualisierungschancen bieten. Aber kann man nicht "leichter eine weiße Amsel als einen treuen und vollkommenen Freund finden" (Pierre Portes)? Vor allem die fortgesetzte Bedeutung ständischer Privilegien und supplementärer Patronageverhältnisse in der gelehrten/literarischen Welt des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts lässt vermuten, dass die historische Semantik der Freundschaft ihnen nicht unbedingt entgegenzusetzen ist. Seit ihren aristotelischen Anfängen hat diese vielmehr auf asymmetrische Sozialbeziehungen reflektiert; und sie wird darin von der pragmatischen Literatur seit der frühen Moderne beerbt. Ein von Denis Diderot und Claude Yvon im Artikel "Amitié" der Encyclopédie angeführtes altes Sprichwort lautet: "amicitia aut pares invenit, aut facit". Unter der Voraussetzung von Ungleichheit scheint das Vorzeichen der Freundschaft Prozesse des Aushandelns, der zumindest situativen respektive passageren Verfertigung von Gleichheit anzuleiten.

Die geplante Tagung soll nach der Bedeutung der Freundschaftssemantik für literarische Praktiken der Kooperation fragen:

• Was sind die sattelzeitlichen gesellschaftlichen und diskursiven Rahmenbedingungen von Freundschaft?
• Welche Formen von akademischer und literarischer Kooperation nehmen das Vorzeichen von Freundschaft in Anspruch?
• Gibt es eine besondere Klugheit der Freundschaft – eine Klugheit, Freundschaft anzubahnen, zu schließen, zu pflegen, zu beendigen? In welchen Genres wird sie artikuliert, gelehrt, gelernt? Wie wird sie angewendet?
• Wie strapazierfähig ist Freundschaft im Dissens – und wie wird die Umschlägigkeit von Freundschaft in Feindschaft bedacht?
• Wann und von wem werden freundschaftliche Beziehungen als Patron-Klient-Verhältnisse begriffen?
• Welche Rolle spielt Freundschaft bei Publikationen – und wird sie öffentlich kommuniziert? Welche rhetorischen Codes werden dabei in Anspruch genommen?
• Welche Dis-/Kontinuitäten sind an der Freundschaftssemantik von der alteuropäischen Tradition bis hin zur Moderne zu beobachten?

Fragen dieses Typs sollen quellennah diskutiert werden. Themenvorschläge sind willkommen.

Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher zur Teilnahme ein. Bitte senden Sie Abstracts eines dreißigminütigen Vortrags mit einer kurzen biografischen Notiz und/oder Rückfragen bis zum 8. Juli 2018 per Mail an folgende Adresse: monika.traut@uni-siegen.de.

Programm

Donnerstag, 06. Dezember:

10.00: Nadja Reinhard (Siegen): Begrüßung

10.15: Georg Stanitzek (Siegen): Einleitung: Zur Semantik der Freundschaft im 18. Jahrhundert – Begriffe und Praktiken

11.00: Julian Scherer (Siegen): Feindschaft in Klugheitslehren der Frühaufklärung

11.45: Kaffeepause

12.15: Stephanie Blum (Saarbrücken): „Freund, wo du redlich liebst: So lobe mich nicht mehr!“ – Freundschaftssemantiken in poetologischer Lyrik der Frühaufklärung

13.00: Mittagspause

14.15: Helmut Zedelmaier (München): Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim – Freundschaftliche Briefe

15.00: Andree Michaelis-König (Frankfurt/O.): Moses Mendelssohns prekäre Freundschaften. Jüdisch-nichtjüdische Gelehrtenbeziehungen zur Zeit der deutschen Aufklärung

15.45: Kaffeepause

16.15: Hans Graubner (Göttingen): Freundschaft als Konkurrenz im Sturm und Drang. Zum frühen Verhältnis von Herder zu Hamann und Goethe zu Herder

17.00: Schluss

19.00: Gemeinsames Abendessen

Freitag, 07. Dezember:

10.00: Klaus-Dieter Eichler (Mainz): „Freundschaft als bloße … Idee“. Kant über Freundschaft

10.45: Christian Sieg (Münster): Wahrheitsfreunde? Zur Idee und Praxis der Kooperation des Magazins zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

11.30: Kaffeepause

12.00: Carsten Zelle (Bochum): Diderots Erzählung „Die beiden Freunde von Bourbonne“

12.45: Ende der Tagung

Since the so-called ‘Arab spring’ in 2011 questions about the relationship between media technol-ogy, political participation, and processes of transformation in the MENA region have increasingly come to the fore within the field of anthropology as well as in the neighboring disciplines of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information system studies. In bringing together scholars working in Arab-majority societies from design studies and socio-informatics with ethnographers from cul-tural and social anthropology we are aiming at opening up new paths and multidisciplinary per-spectives in the collaborative study of media. Moreover, this transdisciplinary collaboration prom-ises to advance both – our study of technology by looking more closely at society, and our study of society by looking more closely at technology.

Since the path-breaking volume Media Worlds (Ginsburg/Abu-Lughod/Larkin 2002) the notion of media has radically changed through the advent of new information and communication technol-ogy and social media. Thinking about media has thus to zoom in on situated media practices and varieties of mediation (cf. Mazzarella 2004). Additionally, the infrastructures, which produce and surround them, must be taken into account. Infrastructures need to be managed and controlled and point to the inseparable connection of media and technology, on the one, and socio-political prac-tice on the other hand (cf. Larkin 2008, 2013). But not only is society – freely adapted from Latour – technology made durable, at the same time, new media technologies restructure existing social orders and institutional arrangements. In recent years, they have triggered new demands for par-ticipation, testing institutions and remaking (b)orders in the MENA region. In this process, new forms of publics and publicness are emerging, raising aspirations and anxieties about scale and scope of media practices and challenging previous assumptions and conceptualizations of the pub-lic sphere – in the Islamic world and beyond (cf. Eickelman/Anderson 2003; Hirschkind/De Abreu/Caduff 2017).

In the HCI domain, a series of studies on social media use during the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ were published during the last 5 Years (Lotan et al. 2011; Starbird/Palen 2012; Al-Ani et al. 2012; Ka-vanaugh et al. 2012). These studies describe aspects of the use of social media, mainly of blogging and micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, during the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Addressing the interchange between social media use and political practices of civil society activists, Wulf et al. (2013a) investigated how social media use supported political activists ‘on the ground’ in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, and analyzed Facebook communication of Palestine activists fighting against the Israeli wall (Wulf et al. 2013b).

We invite contributions, which explore the materialities and socialities of changing (communities of) practice – revolving around changing media use, (im)possibilities of cooperation and new con-cerns for the publicness and scale of social interaction. We welcome reflections on the methodo-logical challenges of and theoretical implications for media-ethnographies, which focus on new forms of (mediated) cooperation – we propose to understand, in the context of our Collaborative Research Center, as the ‘joint production of means, processes and objectives of interaction’. We aim at bringing together ethnographic explorations of situated media practices, emerging contro-versies, and their (transforming) publics in both, cultural and social anthropology as well as human-computer interaction/information system studies.

Research Tech lab WISE 2018 

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 4 “Digital methods”

• description (todo)
• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!
• bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and methods!

Fixed time: Tuesday 14.15 - 15.45

Fixed Room: AH- A 210/211

Rafal Zaborowski (London) on "Holograms, platforms and glowsticks: The challenges of capturing music experiences as data"

Drawing on original empirical data from Japan, in this paper I engage with changing cultural practices surrounding music, and with that, the methodological challenges in approaching music experiences as data. Specifically, I look at unintended consequences accompanying the move from the analogue to the digital, which play a salient role in contemporary audiences’ experiences of music.

While the materiality of music was never fully denied, everyday listening is increasingly experienced through streaming and online storage. This, combined with the portability of phones and new participatory concert practices, has opened up a new range of music uses but also conflated the private with the public, the personal with the social. As music is increasingly consumed digitally and ubiquitously, listeners’ attention strays away from textual cues and the social aspect of music seems less pronounced than ever – arguably becoming almost odourless (cf. Iwabuchi 2002).

And yet, despite the organised infrastructure of digital music platforms, listening and storing practices surrounding music remain often accidental and reflecting the chaos of social life. Datafication and digitalisation transform music from texts and practices to a meta-system of platforms, streams and formats, where, in the words of a listener, “music is not just music anymore – it’s a whole thing”. With the increasing technological capabilities of online platforms, this metafication of music becomes crucial to understanding methodological and epistemological challenges surrounding listening. If the blurring of texts and contexts shows critical limitations in the circuit of culture (du Gay et al 1997), how can we update it?

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Ankündigung Konferenz des SFB 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“

Frühe Kindheit & Smartphone. Die alltägliche Transformation familialer Ordnung

Im Forschungsprojekt „Frühe Kindheit und Smartphone“ untersuchen wir in Familien Medienpraktiken von Kindern im Alter von 0 bis 6 Jahren. Die allgegenwärtige Präsenz von mobilen, digitalen Medien hat grundlegenden Einfluss auf Lern- und Sozialisationsprozesse in der frühen Kindheit und damit auf die primäre Mediensozialisation in Familien. Mit unterschiedlichen praxeologischen Zugängen fragen wir nach der Gestalt interaktiver (Medien-)Praktiken, nach Aneignungsprozessen und Ordnungen des Lernens. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, Forschende aus den Feldern der Kindheits- und Familienforschung sowie der Medienethnographie zusammenzubringen, um gemeinsam analytische Perspektiven auf die sich aktuell vollziehenden, medial bedingten Transformationsprozesse zu entwickeln.

Keynote-Sprecher*innen

Sabine Bollig (Universität Trier): „Akteure, Agenten, Actanten - Kinder und Materialität im Lichte praxisanalytischer Zugänge“

Anja Dreschke (Universität Bern): „Medienpraktiken des Reenactment als Embodied Spectatorship“

Dominik Krinninger (Universität Osnabrück) „Tool – Medium – Spiegel: Digitale Medien im Alltag von Familien“

Panels:

• Das Panel Frühe Kindheit, Medien und „AGENCY" beschäftigt sich mit der Frage nach der Handlungsmacht (Agency) von Kindern, Medien und Materialitäten und deren Relationen.
• Im Rahmen des Panels Medien und „COOPERATION“ geht es um die medialen Aspekte elementarer Sozialisations- und Lernprozesse im Familienalltag und um die Wissensprodukte der Forschung selbst. Das Panel wird gerahmt von der Ausstellung „Das bist Du!“ Frühe Kindheit digital im nahe gelegenen Siegerlandmuseum.
• Das Panel „DOING FAMILY“ – alltägliche Medienpraktiken von Familien stellt die Familie und deren kooperative Medienpraktiken in den Mittelpunkt.

Roundtable:

Die Anmeldung zur Konferenz ist ab dem 15. Juni unter folgender E-Mail-Adresse formlos möglich: inka.fuertig@uni-siegen.de, Teilnahmegebühren werden nicht erhoben.

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

Tobias Röhl (Siegen) on "Distributing Accountability. Data Practices in Public Transport"

This lecture is based on my longitudinal research engagement with the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) networks. I will reflect back on how I have constructed the ethnographic field and object of inquiry since 2002 and across multiple organizational, institutional and geographic boundaries. With my combined interest in ethnographic inquiry into participants everyday practices and participatory design approach for intervening, I recount how data and infrastructure came to matter in various ways, for example as information management, growing one’s own infrastructure and research infrastructure formation. From this background, I speak to ‘tight integrations’ of ethnography and participatory/collaboratory design and to extending the traditionally short-term and small-scale scopes of Participatory Design and Computer Supported Collaborative Work by ethnographically pursuing the sociotechnical phenomenon in question. Building on the work by Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker and colleagues, I propose to study infrastructuring as it emerges through the dimensions of relational, invisible, connected, emerging and accreting practices, and through intervention and intentionality. I will end with some observations and experiences from our most recent investigation on the formation of pan-European research infrastructures for environmental research.

This lecture is based on my longitudinal research engagement with the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) networks. I will reflect back on how I have constructed the ethnographic field and object of inquiry since 2002 and across multiple organizational, institutional and geographic boundaries. With my combined interest in ethnographic inquiry into participants everyday practices and participatory design approach for intervening, I recount how data and infrastructure came to matter in various ways, for example as information management, growing one’s own infrastructure and research infrastructure formation. From this background, I speak to ‘tight integrations’ of ethnography and participatory/collaboratory design and to extending the traditionally short-term and small-scale scopes of Participatory Design and Computer Supported Collaborative Work by ethnographically pursuing the sociotechnical phenomenon in question. Building on the work by Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker and colleagues, I propose to study infrastructuring as it emerges through the dimensions of relational, invisible, connected, emerging and accreting practices, and through intervention and intentionality. I will end with some observations and experiences from our most recent investigation on the formation of pan-European research infrastructures for environmental research.

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

Research Tech lab WISE 2018  

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 3 “Ethnographic methods and Qualitative data analysis”

• Speaker needs to be defined
• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!
• bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and methods!

Fixed time: Tuesday 14.15 -15.45

Fixed Room: AH - A 210/211

Helena Karasti & Gaia Mosconi (Siegen) on “Open science, data practices and infrastructure: two multidimensional empirical accounts“

The Open Science (OS) agenda aims to promote cultural, organizational and infrastructural changes across academia, potentially massive and pervasive in scope. In fact, OS intends to make scientific research and data “accessible to all” by removing barriers to sharing, regardless of the type of output, resources, data, methods or tools used and independently from the actual research process. To satisfy OS-driven policies (pushed by funding bodies and other stakeholders), Institutionally-based Repositories have proliferated, within which researchers are expected to publish their scientific data. Significant research has been devoted to studying the issues associated with managing Open Research Data. In particular, Digital Curation, as it is typically known, seeks to address the (cyclic) process of data management to ensure (1) its long-term value (digital preservation) and (2) encourage secondary use. While we believe that “openness” will ultimately help to increase the quality of research, improve research methods and enhance reflexivity in scientific work, in this talk, we want to address the drastic gap that still exists between the OS grand vision and actual researchers’ data practices, though also some functioning examples of data management and sharing exist. We suggest that interdisciplinary research contexts offer a perspicuous opportunity to understand better the Data Curation and Research Data Management issues that can problematise uptake and practices. These relate to obvious discrepancies between Open Research Data policies and subject-specific research practices and needs. We present two empirical accounts of interdisciplinary research contexts in order to discuss which steps need to be undertaken to pursue the OS agenda and realize its benefits. We also aim to encourage researchers to join this discussion and actively engage in shaping the future of science.

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Der fünfte AKKU-Nachwuchswuchsworkshop im Vorfeld der AKKU-Tagung "Unternehmen und medialer Wandel" bietet Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden wieder die Möglichkeit, ihre Promotionsprojekte vorzustellen und diese zu diskutieren. Darüber hinaus stehen in diesem Jahr Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven der Digital Humanities für die Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensgeschichte im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung.

Termine:

15.10.2018 Einreichung einer kurzen Beschreibung für die Vorstellung eigener Forschungsprojekte

01.11.2018 Anmeldung für den Workshop ohne eigene Präsentation

Bitte an Stina Barrenscheen, Universität Göttingen (sbarren@uni-goettingen.de)

Bitte beachten Sie für ausführliche Informationen den verlinkten Call for Papers.

Die Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises für kritische Unternehmens- und Industriegeschichte möchte sich verschiedenen Forschungsdesiderata widmen. Es werden Beiträge zu den drei geplanten Schwerpunktbereichen der Jahrestagung erbeten:

(1) Medialer Wandel und Unternehmensorganisation

Leitfragen, die beispielsweise aufgeworfen werden können, sind:

• Wie organisieren Unternehmen ihre interne Arbeitsteilung?
• Wie verändern Medien und medialer Wandel die Interaktion im Unternehmen?
• Welche Medien werden im Unternehmen verwendet?
• Wie sieht die Verbindung von Technologie und sozialen Faktoren aus?
• Welche Bedeutung hatten (medien-) technischer Innovationsschübe (Elektrifizierung, Digitalisierung) für Unternehmen?

(2) Medialer Wandel und externe Unternehmenskommunikation

Leitfragen, die beispielsweise aufgeworfen werden können, sind:

• Wie wird (globale) Arbeitsteilung zwischen Unternehmen organisiert?
• Wie nutzen Unternehmen neue Medien als Marktstrategie?
• Wie verändert medialer Wandel die Public Relations von Unternehmen?

(3) Medialer Wandel als Produkt und Herausforderung unternehmerischer Tätigkeit

Leitfragen, die beispielsweise aufgeworfen werden können, sind:

• Mit welchen Zielen schaffen Unternehmen neue Medien?
• Entwickeln Unternehmen bestehende Medien weiter oder schaffen Sie neue?
• Wie kooperierten Unternehmen, um medialen Wandel zu beschleunigen?

Hendrik Bender & Magdalena Götz (Siegen): on "Distributed Research: Drones, Media Art & Collecting Data"

In digitalen Öffentlichkeiten kursiert eine Vielzahl von Texten, die urheberrechtlich geschützte Werke fortschreiben und re-kombinieren. Der Workshop diskutiert zum einen die konkurrierenden Formen der Beschreibung solcher Texte und Textmassen, indem er den Begriff Fan Fiction (und verwandte Bezeichnungen wie Mashup, Remix und Sampling) mit dem Konzept ‚transformativer Werke‘ in Verbindung setzt. Zum anderen soll der historische Vergleich 1800/Gegenwart Forschungsansätze zusammenführen, die eine literaturwissenschaftliche sowie zugleich medienhistorische Dimension aufweisen, sind doch Literaturgeschichte und Urheberrecht mit der im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts einsetzenden Verrechtlichung immaterieller Güter eng verwoben.

Die alltägliche Präsenz und der Erfolg von Fan Fiction fordert das bestehende Urheberrecht heraus. Die explosive Zunahme ‚minoritärer Autorschaft‘ wirft die Frage auf, inwieweit das Phänomen mit Verweis auf die Dynamik digitaler Kulturen ausreichend erklärt ist. Es spricht einiges dafür, dass die kooperative Natur von Schreibpraktiken im Zeichen von Fan Fiction Prozesse sichtbar macht, die neben den Routinen des Literaturbetriebs und einer institutionalisierten Literaturkritik immer schon bestanden. „Fortsetzungen“ fremder Werke ohne Einwilligung der „Schöpfer“ hat es stets gegeben und waren noch im 18. Jahrhundert unhinterfragte und weithin unproblematische Praxis. Die Literaturgeschichte der Werkherrschaft (Heinrich Bosse) und die Sozialgeschichte des „romantischen Autor-Genies“ (Martha Woodmansee) werden vor diesem Hintergrund Objekte neu erwachter Aufmerksamkeit und provozieren eine Revision.

Anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele und Vergleiche geht der Workshop folgenden Themen nach:

Praxis transformativen Werkschaffens: Wie hängen Praktiken des Editierens (in digitalen Öffentlichkeiten), Lektorierens und des kollaborativen Schreibens mit kooperativen Infrastrukturen zusammen?

Fan Fiction / transformative Werke nach Erfindung des Urheberrechts: In welchen Nischen und unter welchen Bedingungen haben sie nach den Verrechtlichungsschüben überlebt und fortexistiert? Welchen Einfluss haben die sich historisch wandelnden urheberrechtlichen Bedingungen auf das Verfassen und Veröffentlichen transformativer Werke und Fan Fiction?

Idiosynkratische Produktions- und Veröffentlichungsordnungen: Inwiefern entstehen aus der Praxis heraus eigenständige Regeln, Werte und Konventionen, die als Alternativen zum geltenden Urheberrecht das Agieren der Akteurinnen und Akteure formen?

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 2 “About writing and more”

• The difficulty of getting the writing done! From the literature collection/management to the writing process; which tools support us better, which reasons behind a tool’s choice, which tools are really needed? (tools like mind-maps etc.)
• Gaia will show some insights from the interviews collected in the SFB, what seemed to work better, why? Which problems researchers claimed to have with this topic!
• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!

bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and way of organizing yourself. If you are an analog person that’s fine as well!

Timo Kaerlein (Siegen) on “Social Bots and the formalization of sociality on platforms“

The growing presence of social bots on platforms like Twitter and Facebook has led to concerns among political decision-makers, specifically connected to elections and so-called fake news campaigns. Undetected bot activity has the potential to disrupt debates by distorting social web analytics, thus conveying false impressions of popularity metrics, trending issues and potentially spreading propaganda. To give an introductory overview, the talk will summarize these societal debates and discuss different approaches developed in computer science to counter-act the perceived dangers of social bots.

Seen from the perspective of media studies, social bot activities are interesting because they have to be understood as the product of a specific medial setting or environment. Social Bots point to a process of formalization of sociality underway on social media platforms that is conditioned by the political economy of data capitalism driving their development. Standardized metrics of enunciation and performance evaluation tools lead to a pre-formatting of social behavior on platforms that applies to human and non-human participants alike. The talk will trace this development back to the primal scene of human-machine communication, the Turing Test proposed in 1950, which had been developed to evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence. Whereas the Turing Test modelled intelligence as a discrete-state abstracted measure, the mass capture and replication of user behavior employed in the development of social bots similarly re-configures sociality as a formal value ready to be processed and monetized.

The aim of the talk is to understand social bots as symptoms shedding light on the politics of platforms and the data practices connecting users to the economy of data-driven capitalism.

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

“Towards a tools and methods catalogue for SFB and Locating Media”

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore and discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

In the winter semester 2018, the Research Tech Lab will work in close connection with Locating Media graduate school. Each session will aim at building a catalogue for tools and methods used in the SFB and Locating Media context. The catalogue will be built using the SFB social platform http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ and it aims to be used in the future as an “active inventory”, a place in which issues with tools and methods can be discussed and beyond, an organizational memory fruitful for future students and academics.

Session 1 “Getting started”

• In the intro session, round to get to know the participants!! Gaia Mosconi from the INF project will present how the platform “social.sfb” will be used by participants for building the catalogue during the whole WiSe 2018/19. Excel file to further collect data to be grown with time and commitment of participants!
• After the intro, we will explore the first topic “Getting organised”: issues like productivity, time management, project management, self-work management will be part of the session; practices, methods, and tools (achievement apps etc.) in support of the research process will be presented and listed into the catalogue;
• participants should bring key tools strategies, ideas, what they use, what worked for them, what didn't!

bring your laptop to be connected at the projector in order to show your tools and way of organizing yourself. If you are an analog person that’s fine as well!

Fixed time: Tuesday 14.15 - 15.45

Fixed Room: AH- A 210/211

Dr. Marcus Burkhardt on “Learning in the wild: on the problem of adaptivity in machine learning”

In June 2017 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, proposed a paradigm shift in the history of computing: Innovation should neither be driven by approaching problems as first and foremost digital nor mobile, but instead by taking an AI first approach that is fueled by recent advances in the field of machine learning. This statement reflects a central promise of machine learning applications, namely the ability to adapt to unforeseen futures without being explicitly programmed: visual recognition of objects or persons without ever having seen or trained on this specific object or this specific person before, self-driving cars being able to deal with new situations safely or chatbots conducting conversations with humans in an engaging manner.
Conversely, the more such technologies are built into the fabric of everyday life the more concerns are raised about their potential risks, e.g. biases and inequalities inherent in training data sets. As a result, ML models often produce (social) structures instead of adapting to them. This tension between promises of ML and perceived risks points toward a hitherto largely unstudied aspect of data-driven applications: the production of adaptivity in real-world ML applications. Drawing on examples like Microsoft's chatbot Tay.ai, recommender systems and fraud detection applications the paper aims to unpack the notions of adaptivity that ML rests upon. By focusing on how adaptivity is accomplished on different levels and to varying extents our goal is to explore the ontological politics that ML systems enact in the wild of their real-world deployment.

The lecture series on “Data Practices” explores data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

In this presentation I will give an overview of the recent work of the Institute of Network Cultures. How do we relate a radical critique of social media (our Unlike Us initiative) with efforts to design alternative internet revenue models (which we deal with in the MoneyLab network)? How can we get rid of the social contract of the ‘free’ and the related extraction model that Silicon Valley has imposed on us? How can artists and creative workers make a living in the 21st century now that copyright is dead and the decentralized value exchanges via blockchains are not yet in place? How can crowdfunding experiments, debates about ‘cashless society’ and universal basic income be linked? Can ‘federated’ networks become a viable alternative to the current centralized platform logic?

In this presentation I will give an overview of the recent work of the Institute of Network Cultures. How do we relate a radical critique of social media (our Unlike Us initiative) with efforts to design alternative internet revenue models (which we deal with in the MoneyLab network)? How can we get rid of the social contract of the ‘free’ and the related extraction model that Silicon Valley has imposed on us? How can artists and creative workers make a living in the 21st century now that copyright is dead and the decentralized value exchanges via blockchains are not yet in place? How can crowdfunding experiments, debates about ‘cashless society’ and universal basic income be linked? Can ‘federated’ networks become a viable alternative to the current centralized platform logic?

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

Im Forschungsforum werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse des SFB intern vorgestellt und zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht öffentlich.

Die Ausstellungseröffnung findet am 26. September 2018 um 18 Uhr im Siegerlandmuseum statt.

Gezeigt werden fokussierte filmische Miniaturen und Arrangements aus der Kamera-Ethnographie im Projekt „Frühe Kindheit und Smartphone“ des SFB Medien der Kooperation, an denen das Publikum schauen und fragen, vergleichen, unterscheiden und benennen kann. Die Besucher/innen der Ausstellung können zwischen Leinwänden, Monitoren und drei Tablet-Stationen wählen, umhergehen oder stehen bleiben, sich vertiefen oder den Blick schweifen lassen. Der Ausstellungsbesuch wird zur Forschung in einem Blicklabor, in dem die Körperlichkeit und Materialität von Medienpraktiken in der frühen Kindheit beobachtbar werden und Fragen wie diese im Raum stehen: Wie sind 0-6 jährige Kinder in digitale Medienpraktiken einbezogen? Mal Face to Face, mal Face to Screen, wie lernen Kinder, sich selbst zu sehen und sich gegenüber anderen zu positionieren? Wie machen sich Familienmitglieder über Orte hinweg an- und abwesend? Wie wird die Dingwelt in Erfahrung gebracht und wie die Medien selbst? Die Ausstellung besteht aus drei Teilen:

• Face to Face – Face to Screen  

 Dreikanal-Videoinstallation auf Leinwänden

 
• All diese Dinge  

 Zweikanal-Videoinstallation auf Monitoren

 
• Wordless Language Game 01: Frühe Kindheit digital  

   Interaktive Videoinstallation an drei Tablets

Ausstellung: ‚Vom Brief zum digitalen Netz – aus dem Siegerland in die Welt’

Die Ausstellung ‚Vom Brief zum digitalen Netz – aus dem Siegerland in die Welt’ zeigt die Funktionsweise und die Auswirkungen globaler Telekommunikationstechnik von ihren Anfängen bis zu digitalen Kommunikation am Beispiel von inter- bzw. transnationalen Maschinenbau-Unternehmen aus der Region. In zwei Zeitinseln, die in etwa in den 1930er und 1980er Jahren zu verorten sind, werden die technischen Zusammenhänge von der lokalen Nutzung im Unternehmen, über die lokale und globale Vermittlung bis hin zu den globalen Unternehmens-verbindungen dargestellt.

Ort:

Sonderausstellungstrakt des Siegerland-Museums

Öffnungszeiten:

Di-So: 10-17 Uhr

Do: 10-19 Uhr

• Which attitudes are transmitted for coping with the tension between standard procedures and individual  cases?
• Which roles do authority, performances of authority, competence, empathy, uncertainty, responsibility, and experience play?
• What modes of teaching and learning the “hidden curriculum” can be observed?

Research practices are based on and produce distinct forms of cooperation and media. Researchers cooperate with materiality, with each other and with individuals who participate in the research and supply relevant information – e.g. by being observed, by being questioned or by giving tissue samples. While cooperating, researchers necessarily draw on a number of media that are present in their own field, in their research fields and in everyday life – e.g. language, signage, notebooks, documents, protocols, digital traces, pictures, films. Furthermore, researchers create media of their own: such as fieldnotes, indexes, audio and video recordings, slides, texts etc.

This is particularly true for media ethnography (Bender/Zillinger 2015). Media ethnography focuses on the collective and cooperative production and use of media in situ. In this perspective, social activities and their media are co-constitutive. The research itself is highly dependent on the cooperation with informants and individuals in the field and draws heavily on already present media. At the same time, research itself constitutes a certain form of cooperation mediated by techniques, artefacts and routines. In constant dialogue, through the juxtaposition of concepts and by engaging in situated practices, it is mutually made and mutually shown to each other what is relevant and meaningful. The data produced during research are thus produced cooperatively, but not without potential conflicts. Once the researcher has left the field, he or she depends on various media and forms of cooperation within the scientific community to analyse and eventually publish the results.

Classic studies of scientific practices have focused on the hard sciences (Latour, Knorr Cetina, Lynch, Heintz, Star etc.). So far, there is little systematic research of the research processes of qualitative social research and media studies. However, there is an ongoing reflection concerning the “poetics and politics” (Clifford/Marcus 1986), the ethics and epistemology of ethnographic methods within the fields of anthropology (e.g. Lave 2011) and sociology (e.g. Hitzler/Gothe 2015) as well as a growing interest in studying doing sociology (Meyer/Meier zu Verl 2013, Engert/Krey 2013, Schindler 2017). Further, the status of ethnographic participation and observation in digitally networked media has been discussed as digital ethnography (Pink et al. 2016), virtual ethnography (Hine 2000), webnography (Strübing 2006), ethnographic research in a pluri-local and computer-mediated field (Greschke 2007), and netnography (Kozinets 2015). Also, attention has been paid to the status and role of cameras and visual data (e.g. Mohn 2013, Schindler 2012, Hoggenmüller 2016, Meyer 2015) in ethnographic methods.

In this vein, our two workshops aim at analysing the ways cooperative media and mediated cooperation are produced in media ethnography; we suggest to discuss the research focus of the Siegen Collaborative Research Centre – media of cooperation as ongoing mutual accomplishments – in relation to our own everyday research practices. Which kinds of cooperative media and mediated cooperation are used and created in participant observation and connected forms of research methodologies? How do media used in the field relate to the various media of research? How to deal with conflict, friendship, collaboration, bodies as media of cooperation, and the multiplication of situations via screens and their mediations as text, (recorded) sounds and (moving) images – in relation to on- and offline practicalities of doing research? How do these practices of cooperation inform our understanding of the fields and objects of study and lead to theorisation?

Programm : Workshop - Media Ethnography – Where is the Action? Cooperative Media Practices in Ethnographic Fieldwork

Thursday 14 June 2018

10:00 Introduction

10:15 - 12.30 Cooperative Media Practices: positionality, difference, intervention, controversy, and (in-)visibility.(Outlines by projects A 05, B 03, B 04, B 05, B 06, B 07)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break (light lunch)

13:30 - 14:30 Roles, Creativity and Accessible Co-Design with People with Aphasia. Timothy Neate (City University London)

14:45 - 15:45 Chatbots – Media Artefacts, Algorithms or Participants? Jessamy Perriam (Open University)

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:15 Visualisations of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Of Inheriting the Kankurang in Senegal and the Gambia. Claudia Jürgens (TU Berlin)

17:30 - 18:00 „Change of Perspectives in the Park“ (12 min.). A reflexive camera-ethnographic film miniature Astrid Vogelpohl (B 05)

from 18:30 Dinner at the Brasserie, Museum of Contemporary Art

Friday 15 June 2018

09:30 - 10:00 Get together & Coffee

10:00 - 11:00 Speaking about Speaking Machines. Practices of Digitalisation in India. Susanne Ebner (Köln)

11:15 - 12:15 Tele-Observation. Use – Trace – Production. Vanessa Wein (Mainz)

12:15 - 12:45 Coffee Break (& Imbiss)

12:45 - 14:00 Beyond the Action? New Directions in Media Ethnography (with Principal Investigators of the CRC)

14:00 Farewell

http://www.socialstudiesof.info/becomingdigital/

• Practices and knowledges (2018 forthcoming)
• Gherardi S, Rodeschini G. (2016), Caring as a collective knowledgeable doing: about concern and being concerned, Management Learning, 47(3): 266-284.
• Corradi, G., Gherardi, S., Verzelloni, L. (2010) Through the Practice Lens: Where Is the Bandwagon of Practice-Based Studies Heading? Management Learning, 41(3): 265-283.

Mobile Interface Methods Workshop Series – YouTube as a Test Society II - Following up on Method

A workshop with Noortje Marres (CIM Warwick) and Valentin Janda (TU Berlin)

Organised by A03

This is a follow-up workshop of the „YouTube as a Test Society“ event held in Dec 11-12 2017 where we started to explore participatory testing in the context of YouTube alongside the cases of driverless cars, cybersecurity and apps.

Online video platforms like YouTube have been widely welcomed as a setting that facilitates user-led testing of anything from smart cars to medical treatments and alternative lifestyles. On YouTube, Navigation apps are being evaluated against each other in everyday use situations, users document their test drives of autonomous vehicles and technology demos explore the boundaries of their usability and interpretation. On the one hand, user-led evaluations in the form of online video reviews, demos and ratings have quickly gained currency in the cultural economy, but, on the other hand, the epistemic status and public efficacy of user-led testing remains in question: does user-led testing produce knowledge and/or accountability? If so, how do they gain relevance beyond the platform and take on the capacity to intervene in public discourse?

In the first workshop we developed two methodological approaches to these questions, one engaging with “deep watching” and interpreting videos based on analyst categories. The other one followed a digital methods approach and designed a semi-automated content analysis method for app tests on YouTube. In the second iteration of the workshop we aim to further experiment with methods for analysing autonomous driving and social navigation. The aim of the workshop is to apply the respective methods to the different datasets and to explore the confluences between qualitative-interpretive and digital methods. Furthermore, the workshop is designed to explore the fields of navigation in the context of social navigation apps and autonomous cars.

International guests: Noortje Marres (CIM Warwick), Valentin Janda (TU Berlin)

Dates: April 19-20 2018

Location: AH-A 210/211

Programme

Thursday April 19 2018

10-11.00 Introductory by Noortje Marres “From the lab to the street? Mapping driverless car trials with digital methods”

11.00 – 11.30 Introduction by Carolin Gerlitz

11.30 – 12.30 Project formation with Valentin Janda

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 18.00 Project work with Noortje Marres and Valentin Janda

18.30 Dinner at Da Luciano

Friday April 20 2018

09.30 – 10.30 Project feedback

10.30 – 12.00 Project work

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 15.00 Project presentation and final discussion with all participants

The ladies lunch is an internal meeting for the female researchers of the SFB.

Organized in cooperation with the DFG research training groups "Locating Media" and "Imaging New Modalities"

new perspectives on academic careers.

exchange of experiences – networking – having lunch together – discussing actual challenges – exchange with experts

Please refer to the attached program for details.

• Thursday, February 15, 2018
  • 13:00:13:30     Welcome
  • 13:30-15:00     Session 1
    • Real-Time Streams: Metaphorical Imaginations and Temporalities                                                                                       Mathias Denecke
    • Weather or Not: On Digital Clouds and Media as Environment  Tim Othold
  • 15:30–17:00     Session 2
    • The Network Is not the Territory: Mobile Addressability and the Capture Model of Data Acquisition                                                        Florian Sprenger
    • Privacy Assistants: Challenges and Critique of Evolving Concepts of Privacy in Ever-Changing Computing Environments                   Martin Degeling, Jasmin Degeling
  •  17:30–19:00     Session 3
    • Semi-Smart, Sovereign Chronological Chains of Existence: The Blockchain Model                                                                   Oliver Leistert
    • Noisy Internet! Web journalism as an epitome of the Internet’s acousticness                                                                                           Bernhard Dotzler and Solveig Ottmann 

• Friday, February 16, 2018
  • 09:30–11:00     Session 4
    • The Role of Software Tools in Critical Data Studies Practices: The Affordances of Gephi as a Sociotechnical System                     Daniela van Geenen
    • In the Middle of Things: Media Theory and Algorithmic Criticism Marcus Burkhardt
  •  14:30–16:00     Session 6
    • From Bodily Fluids to Facehuggers: The Evolution of Cryptovirology                                                                                         Mary Shnayien
    • Life Functions Critical                                                                            Uwe Wippich
  •  16:30–18:00     Session 7
    • The Paranoid Machine: Five Challenges to Digital Cultures Clemens Apprich
    • TBD (late arrival)                                                                                   Armin Beverungen
    • AI and the form of capital: Preliminary notes on the media culture of artificial intelligence                                                            Jens Schröter and Christoph Ernst

•  Saturday, February 17, 2018
  • 10:00–11:30     Session 8
    • Social Encounters with Symbiotic Technologies                               Bianca Westermann
    • TBD (late arrival)                                                                                  Serjoscha Wiemer
  •  12:00–13:30     Next Steps and Wrap Up

Schwerpunkt der Werkstatt Praxistheorie für das Jahr 2017 sind „Medienpraktiken der Delegation“ und hierbei insbesondere Fragen der „Skills“, der Aktenführung und der Erzeugung von Handlungsprogrammen.

Medienpraktiken der Delegation beginnen mit der Verlagerung von Operationsketten, mithin bei den elementaren Formen des Werkzeug- und Instrumentengebrauchs. Sie benötigen die Ausbildung spezifischer Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten bzw. Skills, die als Voraussetzungen von praktischen Vollzügen in der wissenschafts-, medien- und technikhistorischen Forschung mehr und mehr in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt sind.

Ausgehend von den interkorporeal verfassten Medienpraktiken der Delegation nimmt die Werkstatt Praxistheorie diejenigen Praktiken in den Blick, mit denen bereits unter einer kleinen Menge von Akteuren die Regeln gemeinsamer Prozeduren hergestellt werden.

Die Ringvorlesung dient dem Erkenntnistransfer aus dem SFB Medien der Kooperation in die universitäre Lehre und dem Austausch mit der Studierenden-Öffentlichkeit. Eine Kooperation verschiedener Teilprojekte aus unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktbereichen des SFB soll hierzu eine enge Zusammenarbeit der WissenschaftlerInnen aus den einzelnen Forschungsbereichen gewährleisten und die im SFB stattfindende inter- und transdisziplinäre Diskussion für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zugänglich machen.

Schwerpunkt der Werkstatt Praxistheorie für das Jahr 2017 sind „Medienpraktiken der Delegation“ und hierbei insbesondere Fragen der „Skills“, der Aktenführung und der Erzeugung von Handlungsprogrammen.

Medienpraktiken der Delegation beginnen mit der Verlagerung von Operationsketten, mithin bei den elementaren Formen des Werkzeug- und Instrumentengebrauchs. Sie benötigen die Ausbildung spezifischer Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten bzw. Skills, die als Voraussetzungen von praktischen Vollzügen in der wissenschafts-, medien- und technikhistorischen Forschung mehr und mehr in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt sind.

Ausgehend von den interkorporeal verfassten Medienpraktiken der Delegation nimmt die Werkstatt Praxistheorie diejenigen Praktiken in den Blick, mit denen bereits unter einer kleinen Menge von Akteuren die Regeln gemeinsamer Prozeduren hergestellt werden.

The ladies lunch is an internal meeting for the female researchers of the SFB.

Organized in cooperation with the DFG research training groups "Locating Media" and "Imaging New Modalities"

new perspectives on academic careers.

exchange of experiences – networking – having lunch together – discussing actual challenges – exchange with experts

Please refer to the attached program for details.

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore, discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

The Research Tech Lab takes place every two weeks during the semester. Additional room for further exchange and discussion is provided online on the SFB Intranet:

http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ (under construction).

Die Ringvorlesung dient dem Erkenntnistransfer aus dem SFB Medien der Kooperation in die universitäre Lehre und dem Austausch mit der Studierenden-Öffentlichkeit. Eine Kooperation verschiedener Teilprojekte aus unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktbereichen des SFB soll hierzu eine enge Zusammenarbeit der WissenschaftlerInnen aus den einzelnen Forschungsbereichen gewährleisten und die im SFB stattfindende inter- und transdisziplinäre Diskussion für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zugänglich machen.

The history of quantification demonstrates how new calculation systems are associated to new conceptual frameworks in statistics and in the entities discovered (from society to opinion and now to replications). However, beyond these empirical observations of sciences in the making, a systematic choice of viewpoints is always made that emphasizes a specific kind of distribution of agencies: structures, individuals' preferences or replications as circulating entities. This is true for data science studies of Twitter for instance and for qualitative methods as well. This allows us to better understand why social sciences have always been the stage for fighting paradigms, including the more recent challenges brought in by ANT. The investigation of the social world requires to maintain a specific analytical point of view where the "whole" of the assemblage gets lost for the benefit of the emergence of each agency.

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Schwerpunkt der Werkstatt Praxistheorie für das Jahr 2017 sind „Medienpraktiken der Delegation“ und hierbei insbesondere Fragen der „Skills“, der Aktenführung und der Erzeugung von Handlungsprogrammen.

Medienpraktiken der Delegation beginnen mit der Verlagerung von Operationsketten, mithin bei den elementaren Formen des Werkzeug- und Instrumentengebrauchs. Sie benötigen die Ausbildung spezifischer Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten bzw. Skills, die als Voraussetzungen von praktischen Vollzügen in der wissenschafts-, medien- und technikhistorischen Forschung mehr und mehr in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt sind.

Ausgehend von den interkorporeal verfassten Medienpraktiken der Delegation nimmt die Werkstatt Praxistheorie diejenigen Praktiken in den Blick, mit denen bereits unter einer kleinen Menge von Akteuren die Regeln gemeinsamer Prozeduren hergestellt werden.

Distribution of Agencies in Quantitative and Qualititative Methods

The history of quantification demonstrates how new calculation systems are associated to new conceptual frameworks in statistics and in the entities discovered (from society to opinion and now to replications). However, beyond these empirical observations of sciences in the making, a systematic choice of viewpoints is always made that emphasizes a specific kind of distribution of agencies: structures, individuals' preferences or replications as circulating entities. This is true for data science studies of Twitter for instance and for qualitative methods as well. This allows us to better understand why social sciences have always been the stage for fighting paradigms, including the more recent challenges brought in by ANT. The investigation of the social world requires to maintain a specific analytical point of view where the "whole" of the assemblage gets lost for the benefit of the emergence of each agency.

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Schwerpunkt der Werkstatt Praxistheorie für das Jahr 2017 sind „Medienpraktiken der Delegation“ und hierbei insbesondere Fragen der „Skills“, der Aktenführung und der Erzeugung von Handlungsprogrammen.

Medienpraktiken der Delegation beginnen mit der Verlagerung von Operationsketten, mithin bei den elementaren Formen des Werkzeug- und Instrumentengebrauchs. Sie benötigen die Ausbildung spezifischer Fertigkeiten und Fähigkeiten bzw. Skills, die als Voraussetzungen von praktischen Vollzügen in der wissenschafts-, medien- und technikhistorischen Forschung mehr und mehr in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses gerückt sind.

Ausgehend von den interkorporeal verfassten Medienpraktiken der Delegation nimmt die Werkstatt Praxistheorie diejenigen Praktiken in den Blick, mit denen bereits unter einer kleinen Menge von Akteuren die Regeln gemeinsamer Prozeduren hergestellt werden.

The Research Tech Lab, coordinated by sub-projects INF and A05, is an open forum for exchange for all members of the SFB 1187. In the Research Tech Lab, we explore, discuss, and design digital research approaches, tools, and instruments. The basic assumption of the Research Tech Lab is that IT design takes place in everyday use and involves the continuous appropriation of (digital) methods, tools, instruments, and infrastructures. “Design” is an important part of daily research practices in many ways. The Research Tech Lab thus calls for participation of all sub-projects. Based on a 'Living Lab' approach, the sub-projects are given the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and reflect their experiences with research tools and infrastructures.

The Research Tech Lab takes place every two weeks during the semester. Additional room for further exchange and discussion is provided online on the SFB Intranet:

http://social.sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/ (under construction).

Die Ringvorlesung dient dem Erkenntnistransfer aus dem SFB Medien der Kooperation in die universitäre Lehre und dem Austausch mit der Studierenden-Öffentlichkeit. Eine Kooperation verschiedener Teilprojekte aus unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktbereichen des SFB soll hierzu eine enge Zusammenarbeit der WissenschaftlerInnen aus den einzelnen Forschungsbereichen gewährleisten und die im SFB stattfindende inter- und transdisziplinäre Diskussion für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zugänglich machen.

Die Ringvorlesung dient dem Erkenntnistransfer aus dem SFB Medien der Kooperation in die universitäre Lehre und dem Austausch mit der Studierenden-Öffentlichkeit. Eine Kooperation verschiedener Teilprojekte aus unterschiedlichen Schwerpunktbereichen des SFB soll hierzu eine enge Zusammenarbeit der WissenschaftlerInnen aus den einzelnen Forschungsbereichen gewährleisten und die im SFB stattfindende inter- und transdisziplinäre Diskussion für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs zugänglich machen.

new perspectives on academic careers.

In global pop culture, pinball playing peaks in 1969 and the following years. Members of the Cologne artist scene based around the journal Interfunktionen – among others Benjamin Buchloh, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Candida Höfer, Michael Oppitz – play pinball, like everyone else, but also work on a critical theory of the game, drawing particularly on Roland Barthes’s Mythologies. The reconstruction of this critical activity, up until its ultimate failure, yields an illuminating case study of the animated interaction between theory, art, pop culture, and protest movement in the sixties and seventies.

Followed by a commentary on The Who’s Pinball Wizard (by Erhard Schüttpelz)

18-20 pm at Herrengarten 3, AH 217/18

Guest lecture by Richard Rogers (Amsterdam): Otherwise engaged. Social Media from vanity metrics to critical analytics

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20 pm - open end at Wolkenkuckucksheim Siegen

Welcome by Carolin Gerlitz (Media Studies, Locating Media), talk by Erhard Schüttpelz (CRC Media of Cooperation)

Durchgeführt von Nils Seiler, Berlin

19.12. 08:30 - 16:00 Uhr in AH 110

20.12. 11:00 - 16:30 Uhr in AH 210