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

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”.

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?

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.

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”.

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

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”.

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.

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?

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”.

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!

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”.

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.

“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

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”.

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.

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 Beobachtung von Kultur ist auch in der Gegenwart auf Medienpraktiken der Epitomisierung angewiesen. Der Vortrag wird sich darum bemühen, diese Medienpraktiken anhand von aktuellen Beispielen vorzustellen und in eine übergreifende Theorie der Epitomisierung zu intergrieren.

• 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

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

In dieser Sitzung Beiträge von: B01, B03, B04, B05, B06, B07, P01

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).

Digital Bias In and As Practice?

Online data and software tools have been widely taken up to research social life, but their objectivity continues to be questioned in the social sciences and humanities: the data sets are incomplete, the tools don't let us answer the important questions. Arguably, however, problems of 'digital bias’ are changing face. Classic work on bias as a sociological phenomenon - Becker on lablleing; Hacking on interactive kinds - are becoming newly relevant, as digital platforms get caught up in interactive societal processes, whereby discriminatory content gets promoted online, and ’smart' services privilege some demographics over others. This paper will examine how sociological concerns with bias pertain to today's digital societies, and ask: What is the contribution of praxiography to the elucidation of digital bias? In what ways do phenomena of digital bias pose a productive challenge for praxiology?

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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.

Dieser Workshop soll den Editorinnen und Editoren, die noch nie mit XML/TEI gearbeitet haben, einen Einblick in diese Datenmodellierungs-Werkzeuge gewähren und es ihnen ermöglichen, selbst XML/TEI-Daten zu generieren, diese zu bearbeiten und einfache Abfragen an ihnen durchzuführen.

Joseph Wang studierte Medizin und Philosophie an der Universität Innsbruck und arbeitet seit 2006 als Projektmitarbeiter am Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ("Ludwig Wittgenstein: Vermischte Bemerkungen Neu" und "Wittgensteins Vorlesungen zur Ästhetik im Kontext"). Hierbei hat er die Technik der Quellenedition mittels TEI kennen und schätzen gelernt. Seit 2011 ist er an der Seite von Brian McGuinness ein Mitherausgeber der digitalen Edition "Wittgenstein: Gesamtbriefwechsel", die beim Verlag Intelex erschienen ist. Zudem arbeitet er v.a. als technische Unterstützung für andere Editionsprojekte, u.a. bei den Projekten "Ludwig von Ficker: Kommentierte Online-Briefedition und Monografie", "Familienkorrespondenz des Ferdinand I." und "Edition der Tagebücher von Joseph Maria Baernreither".

Das Edieren von Korrespondenzstücken wird bereits seit längerem im Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv praktiziert. Und spätestens seit 1988 wird auch aktiv an den Briefen von und an Ludwig Wittgenstein gearbeitet. In diesem Vortrag möchte ich zunächst vom Edieren v.a. des digitalen Briefwechsels berichten. Es zeigt sich auf der einen Seite, dass die Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber – bedingt u.a. durch technische Fortschritte – Daten migrieren und korrigieren mussten. Aber auf der anderen Seite gab es kaum Änderungen, welche inhaltliche Aspekte der Edition betreffen. So entschieden sich die Editorinnen und Editoren beispielsweise dagegen, alle Briefe textkritisch zu transkribieren, auch wenn sich diese Möglichkeit mit TEI leicht verwirklichen lässt. Im zweiten Teil des Vortrags möchte ich daher eine mögliche Erklärung für das Phänomen geben, dass die Gelehrten offenbar eine Wahl treffen, ob sie bestimmte Technologien übernehmen oder nicht. Ausgehend von der Theorie des impliziten Wissens von Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) möchte ich darlegen, dass Editorinnen und Editoren nicht bloß über propositionales Wissen über die Autorinnen und Autoren bzw. über die Werke, die sie edieren, verfügen; sondern gerade beim Transkribieren und Studieren der Quellen gelangen sie zu – zunächst nur implizit verfügbares – Wissen, welches sie bei der Gestaltung der Edition leitend wirken.

CV: Joseph Wang studierte Medizin und Philosophie an der Universität Innsbruck und arbeitet seit 2006 als Projektmitarbeiter am Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ("Ludwig Wittgenstein: Vermischte Bemerkungen Neu" und "Wittgensteins Vorlesungen zur Ästhetik im Kontext"). Hierbei hat er die Technik der Quellenedition mittels TEI kennen und schätzen gelernt. Seit 2011 ist er an der Seite von Brian McGuinness ein Mitherausgeber der digitalen Edition "Wittgenstein: Gesamtbriefwechsel", die beim Verlag Intelex erschienen ist. Zudem arbeitet er v.a. als technische Unterstützung für andere Editionsprojekte, u.a. bei den Projekten "Ludwig von Ficker: Kommentierte Online-Briefedition und Monografie", "Familienkorrespondenz des Ferdinand I." und "Edition der Tagebücher von Joseph Maria Baernreither".

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 this workshop, we aim to analyse YouTube test videos as an emerging set of evaluative practices in the context of digital media, and examine their potential to contribute to evidentiary cultures and the making of a test society.

Workshop objectives

The overarching aim of analysing YouTube test videos is then to re-situate tests on several levels. On the most fundamental level, we need to account for the platform as a demonstrational context in which tests do not figure as bounded mode of creating knowledge, but as highly entangled practice informed by platform affordances. Additionally, platforms potentially endow experimental situations with distinctive capacities, and/or they may inflect the morphology of situations - unbounded, metrically mediated, yet constantly occurring. To which extent can testing be perceived as specific genre on YouTube and how is it incorporating other genres like parody, satire, experiment? Moreover, online test videos may be creating continuities between the platform and everyday spaces like the home or the street as experimental settings and need to be resituated in regards to other sites of testing involved. And finally, test videos cannot be approached without situating them regarding the sensory, affective and embodied practices they involve, as they contribute to recallibrate affective experiences of the tested objects with their formal, aesthetic and/or institutional aspects.

In the context of the workshop we seek to explore tests as specifically situated valuation practice and to use digital methodologies of data analysis and visualisation to explore how they evaluate, appropriate and re-sensitize. We will do so by engaging with three different sets of questions and materials: (1) videos on autonomous driving (2) app reviews, guides and tests and (3) cybersecurity demos which shall be explored through short-form empirical projects. We kindly ask all participants to bring a laptop with them.

Workshop participants: Noortje Marres (CIM Warwick), Jess Perriam (Goldsmiths), Valentin Janda (Berlin), Laurie Waller (TUM Munich), Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden), Loup Cellard (CIM Warwick), Henry Mainsah (CIM Warwick), Pablo Velasco Gonzales (CIM Warwick), Sam Hind, Hendrik Bender, Tristan Thielmann, Carolin Gerlitz, Fernando van der Vlist, Jörg Potthast, Sebastian Gießmann Cornelius Schubert, Jörn Preuß, Johannes Paßmann, Pablo Abend, Max Kanderske, Tatjana Seitz, Marcus Burkhardt, Lena Teigeler, Lisa Gerzen (Siegen).

# Please bring your laptop to the workshop! #

Organisers: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick) and Media of Cooperation and Locating Media (University of Siegen)

Mobile Interface Methods Workshop Series

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.

Civic engagement and political participation have undergone major changes over the past decades. Within political sociology, scholars have diagnosed decreasing numbers of “dutiful citizens” who limit their public engagement to voting and party membership, while a politics of protest and resistance by “critical” or “actualizing” citizens seems to have gained importance since the late 20^th century. More recently, a third development of citizen engagement has been emphasized in the literature on citizenship, which focuses on various phenomena like creative or material participation, new forms of prefigurative lifestyle politics or socio-technical innovations. This third development becomes particularly visiblewithin the effort for social-ecological transformation: From the degrowth movement to urban gardens, from community-supported agriculture or repair cafés to web-based culture jamming or sharing initiatives, grassroots innovations aim to change local practices and production modes in order to prove the viability of alternative, “convivial” or sustainable ways of life. These developments still await further systematic empirical research as well as normative reflections evaluating new participatory practices from perspectives of critical social and political theories. Here, some crucial questions remain unanswered: Are these forms of engagement still political? How new and effective are they in terms of social-ecological change?

Convenor: Prof. Sigrid Baringhorst, Mundo Yang, Lisa Villioth, Jörg Radtke

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

In dieser Sitzung Beiträge von: A01, A02, A03, A04, A05, A06

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 second annual conference of the Collaborative Research Centre “Media of Cooperation” brings together researchers interested in studying the manifold realizations of cooperative practices from a variety of scholarly backgrounds. We understand cooperation in broad terms as any form of mutual making, in which goals, means, and procedures are seen as ongoing accomplishments. From the exchanges of goods or information, to the interactions between bodies or organizations, and the coordination between colleagues, competitors, friends or foes. Mutually making the conditions of mutual making entails translating heterogeneous interests, negotiating conflicting values and articulating distributed activities. On the one hand, the individual papers and sessions of the conference will cover different notions and concepts of cooperation in diverse fields of study: from the mundane cooperation of everyday life to collective endeavors within specific domains. On the other hand, the contributions share a focus on the practices of making cooperation possible through cooperatively creating the conditions for cooperation itself. Seeing cooperative media both as a condition and consequence of cooperation, the conference will shed light on a general feature of media, technologies and instruments that both enable and constrain the collaboration between heterogeneous social worlds, with and without consensus.

In order to connect the broad variety of cooperations in the empirical projects that share the analytic focus on cooperatively creating the conditions of cooperation, the conference aims to map the diversity of cooperative practices along three analytic dimensions: scaling, composing and monitoring. These dimensions do not fix cooperation as a neatly defined unit, but allow for the empirical and conceptual comparisons of diverse and messy, sometimes consensual and sometimes conflicting, occurings of cooperation.

• SCALING. Cooperation varies depending on its size and duration. Some forms of cooperation occur in short sequences, in physical co‐presence and with no more than two entities involved. Others span decades, are performed on a global scale by states and large organizations. Of course, many forms of larger‐scale cooperation depend on forms of smaller‐scale cooperation – and the other way around. We are interested in which ways such different scales of cooperations require and produce different media of cooperation.
• COMPOSING. The second dimension touches on the first. Cooperation also varies according to the entities it is composed of and their relations. There are elementary forms of cooperation that lie at the base of every social interaction. They occur whenever two entities come in contact with each other and commence in some form of mutual adjustment. Other forms of cooperation may be strategically planned, involving many heterogeneous entities that need to be aligned along a specific cooperative purpose. Again, naturally occurring cooperation and purposefully created cooperation often run side by side, but we suspect they also differ in the cooperative media being created and used.
• MONITORING. Cooperation necessarily includes multiple ways of mutual monitoring. The cooperative activities may be open and transparent, but they may also be incidental, unnoticed or clandestine. This extends to the question in how far participating in cooperation is deliberate, unwitting or unwanted. If cooperative media support forms of cooperation that lack shared goals and allow for cooperation without consensus, this requires us to ask questions about control, domination and power inscribed in media as a consequence and condition of cooperation.

The seven panels of the conference will open up the diversity of cooperation emphasizing one of two interrelated perspectives: areas and ways of cooperation.

The areas of cooperation span from academia to enterprises and social media platforms:

• being lost in cooperation in digitally networked media/social media,
• engaging with cooperative research data management in the e‐humanities,
• understanding cooperation in enterprises from a historical point of view,
• reflecting cooperation in academia.

The ways of cooperation highlight different modes of mutually making:

• considering ways of Doing Da Sein / doing being there as cooperative accomplishment,
• rethinking repositories in cooperation in media studies, as well as
• addressing the relations of bodies and the materiality of cooperation.

We will discuss large and small scale cooperation, in different compositions and varying patterns of monitoring cooperation, incidental and volatile as well as planned and durable cooperation in its historical and contemporary forms and how they all can be seen through the lens of mutually making the conditions of mutual making.

new perspectives on academic careers.

Gemeinsam mit den Referenten Guido Brombach (DGB Bildungswerk), Dr. Jochen Lange (Fakultät II) und Dr. Frédéric Falkenhagen (ZLB) möchten wir mit Ihnen Grundbegriffe, Spannungsfelder und Handlungsebenen der „Digitalisierung“ in der Schule sowie den pädagogischen Nutzen von Spielen im Unterricht diskutieren. Dabei sollen auch didaktische Wechselwirkungen der beiden Aspekte berücksichtigt werden.

Details und Programm

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.

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

Natascha Adamowsky (Professorin für Medienwissenschaft im Bereich der Digitalen Medientechnologien an der Universität Siegen) stellt ihr Projekt "Automaten und Mobiles als kulturelle Artefakte der Entstehungsgeschichte kooperativer Medien“ vor.

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.