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“Games and play are at once material and imaginary. They are real – but they trouble commonsense notions of reality; they offer multiple realities of fantasy, performance and intense experience” (Giddings 2014, S. 3).
In der Fortsetzung des Gesprächs- und Filmformats „Kameraethnographie trifft Seth Giddings“ explorieren wir unterschiedliche Spielräume in digitalen Kindheiten anhand aktueller Filme aus unserem Projekt, die wir entlang von Seth Giddings‘ „Gameworlds” (2014) diskutieren. Wir fragen, auf welche Weisen Vorstellungskraft zwischen Körpern, Dingen, Medien und Spielsystemen hervorgebracht wird und wie im Spiel Medientechnologien, Sounds, Spielzeuge und Rhythmen etc. alternative Raum-Zeitlichkeiten erzeugen.
Wir diskutieren den mikroethologischen Ansatz von Giddings mit seinem Schwerpunkt auf (digitaler) Materialität entlang gelebter Spielerfahrungen von Kindern. Wir vergleichen diesen mit dem mikroethnographischen Ansatz und der Kamera-Ethnographie als methodologische Grundlagen im Projekt mit der Frage: Wie wird Imagination von Kindern im Spiel beobachtbar?
Literatur:
Giddings, Seth (2014): Gameworlds. Virtual Media and Children’s Everyday Play. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic
Wer teilnehmen möchte, sendet bitte eine Mail an hoa.mai.tran@uni-siegen.de, um den Webex-Link und den Text im Vorfeld zu erhalten.
Veranstaltungsort
Kontakt
Der SFB lädt herzlich zur mündlichen Prüfung im Promotionsverfahren von Niklas Strüver ein.
Montag, 27. Juli 2026 um 11 Uhr, in Raum AH-A 217/18.
Im Rahmen der Disputation werden die Ergebnisse seiner Dissertation vor der Prüfungskommission präsentiert und wissenschaftlich verteidigt. Der Titel seiner Dissertation lautet: „Speaking on behalf of the periphery: Third-party relationships in Amazons’s Alexa ecosystem“ und untersucht die Entwicklungszusammenhänge des Sprachassistenten Alexa aus den Perspektiven der Infrastruktur- und Plattformtheorie. Anhand der vier vorgelegten Artikel wird herausgearbeitet, wie Alexa als Infrastruktur und Plattform für Drittanbieter in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft fungiert und welche soziotechnischen Machtgefälle dabei entstehen. Diese Analyse erlaubt die Untersuchung der sozialen Beziehungen, in die Amazon als Hersteller mit den Komplementäranbietern am Rande der Plattform eingeht. Durch verschiedene empirische Zugänge kann trotz üblicher Geheimhaltung durch Großkonzerne ein Blick auf die Entwicklung von Technologien geworfen werfen, die im Alltag vieler Menschen präsent sind.
Die Prüfung wird auf deutsch gehalten und von den beiden Gutachtern Dagmar Hoffmann & Armin Beverungen betreut.
Veranstaltungsort
Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Siegen
Kontakt
Schedule
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Time |
Thursday, 23 July 2026 |
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09:00 – 09:50 |
Daniela van Geenen |
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09:50 – 10:00 |
Coffee break |
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10:00 – 10:50 |
Ksenia Rybak |
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10:50 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 11:50 |
Damaris Lehmann |
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11:50 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
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12:00 – 12:50 |
Hina Firdaus |
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12:50 – 14:00 |
Lunch break: Food Court (Mensa US) |
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14:00 – 14:50 |
Athena Grandis |
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14:50 – 15:00 |
Coffee break |
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15:00 – 15:50 |
Clara Cardoso |
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15:50 – 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 – 16:50 |
Anne Schreiber |
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16:50 – 17:00 |
Coffee break |
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17:00 – 17:50 |
Akib Shariar Khan |
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18:30 |
Joint Dinner (venue t.b.a.) |
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Time |
Friday, 24 July 2026 |
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09:00 – 09:50 |
Johanna Hiebl |
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09:50 – 10:00 |
Coffee break |
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10:00 – 10:50 |
Michael Brilka |
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10:50 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 11:50 |
Vesna Schierbaum |
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11:50 – 12:00 |
Coffee break |
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12:00 – 12:50 |
Anna Kalinina |
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12:50 – 14:00 |
Lunch break: Food Court (Mensa US) |
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14:00 – 14:50 |
Final discussions |
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Links
Kontakt
The conference is preceded by a small ‚pre-conference‘ on Wednesday afternoon, 15 July, following the research forum, entitled: „Navigating an Archive.“
Keynote
Waverly Duck, who will be traveling to Siegen from UC Santa Barbara, will give the keynote lecture:
“Negroes Gone Wrong”: Pauli Murray, Passing, and the Interactional Practices of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Garfinkel’s 1940 “Color Trouble”
The keynote will take place in Herrengarten, AHA 217/218, on 16 July, from 17:15–18:45h.
The rest of the program can be found below.

Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
Herrengarten 3
AH-A 217/18
57072 Siegen
Links
Programm
16.7.2026
Conference: Social Inequalities, Membership Categorization, and Interactional Asymmetries: EMCA Analyses and Ethnographic Challenges
Opening and Introductory Remarks
Clemens Eisenmann (University of Konstanz/Siegen) & Lorenza Mondada (U of Basel)
Subaltern tasks: what they reveal about the organisation of collective action
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)
Lunch (Mensa)
Productive asymmetries: Of manuscripts, “members,” and methods; Asymmetries in "Human–Machine" Encounters: Walking, Talking, and Commonality
Philippe Sormani (ZhdK Zürich); Jakub Mlynar (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
Coffee break
Preliminary Considerations on a Conversation Analytic Approach to Intersectionality
Kevin Whitehead (UC Santa Barbara)
“Negroes Gone Wrong”: Pauli Murray, Passing, and the Interactional Practices of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Garfinkel’s 1940 “Color Trouble”
Waverly Duck (UC Santa Barbara)
Concluding discussion
Anne W. Rawls (Bentley University)
Dinner (Brasserie Ristorante e Piazza, Unteres Schloß 1, 57072 Siegen)
Kontakt
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
Herrengarten 3
AH-A 217/18
57072 Siegen
Programm
15.7.26
Pre-conference Workshop: Navigating an Archive
Archival practices:reconstructing concealed and fragmented histories
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)
Researching the ELIZA materials in Garfinkel’s archive: the achievement of historicity in archival practices
Minan Lou (University of Konstanz)
Archival practices in, of, and as the Garfinkel archive
Clemens Eisenmann (University of Konstanz/Siegen), Jakub Mlynar (HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Anne W. Rawls (Bentley University), and Philippe Sormani (ZhdK Zürich)
Dinner
Kontakt
14:15 – 15:00 Dr. Clemens Eisenmann: „Sociology of Perception“
15:00 – 15:45 Dr. Philippe Sormani: „Relocating ‘AI’: a Praxeological Approach“
More information coming soon.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Telefon: +49 (0)271 740 4664
The GDPR promises us that we can receive our personal data from anyone who collected it upon request. Research has already shown this does not really work as envisioned in law.
This lecture asks to dig deeper into the topic, by approaching data subject rights, in particular Article 15 GDPR, as a methodological device for studying digital infrastructures under conditions of limited access. Access rights are first a legal protection and empowerment measure, but we examine how they can be used to trace tracking practices, data flows and processes of identity formation in online advertising ecosystems. In the course of this research we bridge media studies and digital methods with legal studies. The data collection process is first an encounter with the infrastructures that exist to inform users, but also an encounter of the user with fragments of themselves.
From a legal perspective, we analyse how data protection law conceptualises different forms of identity and how identities are legally attributed to a data subject. At the same time, we interrogate the limits of this framework: while the GDPR presupposes that personal data can be linked to an identified or identifiable natural person, contemporary data practices routinely challenge these distinctions. Identities emerge from combinations of data points that individually fall below the threshold of “personal data,” yet collectively constitute a recognisable profile. The legal figure of the data subject is thus both a normative construct and an unstable one, continuously deconstructed and reassembled by digital infrastructures.
Yarden Skop & Maria Boole (University of Paderborn & Siegen / Project A07 @ SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation)
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
- Antrag auf Assoziierung
- Antrag auf Förderung einer Publikation
- Antrag auf Förderung einer Veranstaltung
Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.
Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
Writing Retreat des internen SFB-Graduiertenkollegs inkl. Workshop und Einzelcoachings durch Dr. Anselm Spindler (trainofthought.de).
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
Kontakt
14:15 – 15:45: „Counter-Choreographies of Data: Activism Between Platform and Ground“
This lecture examines how methodological choices distribute attention, agency, and legibility within knowledge production, focusing on digital platforms as contested sites where data is shaped by algorithmic infrastructures, political pressure, and regimes of visibility. Social media posts are approached not as neutral evidence, but as partial and mediated traces of activism.
Drawing on personal research practice, the lecture traces digital content back to its on-site realities—embodied experiences, spatial conditions, and forms of risk that remain off-screen. Through performative reactivation, these traces are re-situated to produce counter-narratives that disrupt the manipulated datasets of authoritarian regimes, transforming research into a site for witnessing, resistance, and collective memory.
The concept of “counter-choreographies of data” frames this methodology as a political intervention that foregrounds the uncounted, blinded, and misrepresented. Positioning research as activism, the lecture argues for cooperative methodologies that make conflicts over categories, metrics, and evidence explicit, accountable, and revisable.
Azadeh Ganjeh (Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg / Mercator Fellow @ SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation)
Azadeh Ganjeh is a Performance Artist and scholar specializing in the intersection of socio-political contexts and the realm of Performance Art and performative culture. Her research, rooted in the observance and analysis of public interventions, protests, performance events and Theatres, reveals the intricate link between performance art and socio-political movements. Since 2004, with her collective, Rebel-IST-hah!, her artistic practice has focused on aesthetic strategies and dramaturgical interventions to create an inclusive space of appearance and activism through the Performing Arts. As an activist and performance artist, her research project focuses on the aesthetics of the performative presence of the body in the public space as resistance. She traces these performances through a focus on non-Eurocentric historiography of civil resistance in the Global South and climate activism in sacrifice zones, which occurs through Performing Arts. Due to the state’s opposition to her secular approach, advocacy for academic freedom, and her active role as a feminist artist and activist, she encountered political restraints and threats from the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and since 2022, found herself compelled to seek exile in Germany as a Scholar at Risk.
16:00 – 17:30: „Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS From Its Research Infrastructures“
What kinds of practical and epistemic work are required to draw together different kinds of data, people, and evidence? This talk examines ‚interoperability‘ by tracing the history of three AIDS cohort studies that, over three decades, were gradually merged into a single research network. Today, with a double-click, researchers can combine data collected from gay and bisexual men in the 1980s with materials gathered from women in the North of the US beginning in the 1990s and in the South of the US in the 2010s—data that remain scientifically comparable. Yet today’s apparent ease reveals next to nothing about the political protests and scientific disputes that made such comparability possible. The interoperability of these AIDS research data rests on decades of negotiation over how blood, data, and human participants could be rendered equivalent.
David Ribes (University of Washington)
David Ribes is professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) and director of the Science, Technology and Society Studies (STSS) program at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a sociologist of science and technology who focuses on the development and sustainability of research infrastructures; their relation to long-term changes in the conduct of science; and, transformations in objects of research. David is a regular contributor to the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Information Studies. His methods are ethnographic, archival-historical and comparative. See davidribes.com or dataecologi.es for more.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
14:15 – 15:00 Dr. Tim Hector: Language and Norms at Digital Interfaces. Adaptation, Friction, and Creativity in Situated Interaction with Digital Technologies
15:00 – 15:45 Dr. Astrid Vogelpohl: Hybrid Spaces – Hybrid Selves
Early Childhood and Smartphone
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Telefon: +49 (0)271 740 4664
Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and the Analysis of Technologized Interaction at Work with Functional Diversity & Mixed Abilities
Prof. Maija Hirvonen (Tampere University)
My talk explores theoretical and methodological positions in the ethnomethodological and conversation-analytical studies (EMCA) of dis/ability in technologized workplace interaction. The talk features research questions and sample analyses from a major European research and innovation project, NewWorkTech, which has collected naturalistic video-recorded data with six different dis/ability groups and from workplaces in six different countries.
EMCA aims at describing systems of situated human conduct and practices of social and technologized interaction from the members’ perspective. Today, this perspective is typically accomplished by an analytical process of interpreting naturally occurring video data in such way that researchers seek to understand the observable conduct and practices as one of the participants. With the emphasis on multimodality and, increasingly, multisensoriality, the analysis of interaction involves a detailed observation of the spatial, visual and other nonverbal modalities as resources of the system.
With regard to dis/ability and functional diversity, such as blindness or neurodivergence, EMCA studies must question the premises of acquiring a ”members’ perspective” in (inter)action which is (yet) not known to or experienced by the researcher. My talk intends to pave some ways for the methodological development in order to analyse (technologized) interaction cooperatively from the perspective of functional diversity and mixed ability – concepts which do not put ontological priority to any one sense or way of being in the world.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
- Antrag auf Assoziierung
- Antrag auf Förderung einer Publikation
- Antrag auf Förderung einer Veranstaltung
Die Vorstandssitzungen enthalten Berichte, Themenpunkte und Verschiedenes, die für alle SFB Mitglieder öffentlich sind. Personenbezogene Anträge und Finanzen sind nicht öffentlich und werden nach dem öffentlichen Teil besprochen. Webex-Links für Online-Teilnahmen werden am vorherigen Freitag verschickt. Teilnahme vor Ort ist möglich.
Digitale Protokolle des öffentlichen Teils werden über sciebo zur Verfügung gestellt.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
14:15 – 15:00 Dr. Johannes Schick: „The Zoomorphology of Gestures: Interspecies Learning and Technical Invention in Early Human Evolution“
15:00 – 15:45 Dr. Dominik Schrey: title t.b.a.
More information coming soon.
Dr. Johannes Schick: „The Zoomorphology of Gestures: Interspecies Learning and Technical Invention in Early Human Evolution“
This article develops a transindividual theory of multispecies technics. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon’s ontogenetic theory of individuation, I extend his concept of the associated milieu beyond the relation between humans and technical objects to interspecies relations. I argue that the earliest technical gestures in hominin history may have emerged from the reciprocal relationship between human and non-human animals, and I introduce the notion of zoogestures to characterise this transindividual multispecies process. Three criteria operationalise the multispecies associated milieu: a living being must co-constitute the conditions of an operation involving another living being; the operation must depend on the presence or behaviour of that other living being; and the relation must open up or stabilise new possibilities for action. I test this heuristic against three cases of interspecies technical operations: social learning between domesticated horses (ponying) and within wild chimpanzee populations (Tinka); the invention of a new technical behaviour by a domesticated cow (Veronika) in a human milieu; and the multispecies ecological co-construction of beaver-human cohabitation in prehistory. The conclusion develops Simondon’s notion of présence to argue that technical gestures emerge not as Leroi-Gourhan’s exudations or extensions of the (human) body, but as a multispecies event.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18 and Webex
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Kontakt
Dr. Dominik Schrey
dominik.schrey[æt]uni-siegen.de
Telefon: +49 (0)271 740 4664
Sensorische Selbstvermessung mit Smartwatches und das Teilen von Gesundheitsdaten in Sozialen Netzwerken, Kontrolle von Umweltdaten im intelligenten Zuhause sowie Telemedizin und digitale Assistenzsysteme zur Förderung von Gesundheit und Prävention gelten als Beispiele für die „Medizin der Zukunft“. Diese hat sowohl Licht- als auch Schattenseiten. Wie gehen die Nutzerinnen und Nutzer vor diesem Hintergrund mit den neuen Technologien und den damit verbundenen sozialen Erwartungen, Hoffnungen und Sorgen praktisch um? Das Projekt „Un/erbetene Beobachtung in Interaktion“ im Sonderforschungsbereich „Medien der Kooperation“ an der Universität Siegen untersucht durch Interviews, begleitete Wohnungsrundgänge und Videoaufzeichnungen das alltägliche Leben mit „smarten“ Technologien zwischen (Selbst-)Überwachung und kreativer Aneignung. In der Podiumsdiskussion debattieren die Projektverantwortlichen über gesundheitsbezogene Aspekte mit Forschenden verschiedener Disziplinen und mit dem Siegener Publikum.
Podiumsteilnehmer:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinemann, Professor für Wirtschaftsethik an der FOM Hochschule Berlin sowie Sprecher der Ethik-Ellipse Smart Hospital der Universitätsmedizin Essen
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann, Professorin für Medienwissenschaft – Medien und Kommunikation/Gender Media Studies an der Universität Siegen & SFB 1187, Teilprojekt B06
Dr. Paula Stehr, Akademische Rätin am Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Prof. Dr. Torsten Voigt, Professor für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Technik und Diversität, RWTH Aachen
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Stephan Habscheid, Professor für Germanistik/Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Siegen & SFB 1187, Teilprojekt B06.
Thematischer Impuls zum Einstieg: Niklas Strüver, M.A., SFB 1187, Teilprojekt B06.
Veranstaltungsort
Campus Unteres Schloss
US-S
Obergraben 25, 57072 Siegen
57072 Siegen