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    B09 - Bicycle Media. Cooperative Media of Mobility
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Collaborative Research Centre 1187

 

Welcome to the web page of the Special Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen.

The CRC is an interdisciplinary collaborative research centre consisting of 19 subprojects and more than 60 researchers from media studies, ethnology, sociology, computer science, linguistics, ubiquitous computing, science and technology studies, education, law and engineering.

The Collaborative Research Centre 1187 has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2016. The research centre studies digital media, which have emerged as cooperative tools, platforms and infrastructures on a broad front, and approaches them as cooperatively accomplished means of cooperation. In the first funding phase (2016-2019), the CRC focused on the relevance of social media and platforms, while the second phase (2020-2023) centered on data-intensive media and data practices. Phase 3 (2024-2027) inquires the interplay between sensor media and artificial intelligence.

News

07 July 2025
Stellenausschreibung: SHK/WHB-Stelle in SFB-Teilprojekt B06 gesucht
Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.Interesse an Tätigkeit im wissenschaftlichen Umfeld? Im Teilprojekt B06 "Un/erbetene Beobachtung in Interaktion: Smart Environments, Sprache, Körper und Sinne in Privathaushalten" des DFG Sonderforschungsbereichs ... read more
03 July 2025
New publication: Medium, Medium: Elemente einer Anthropologie
On Pre-technological Media by Erhard Schüttpelz (University of Siegen/CRC) If we have always lived in a media society, what are media actually? Erhard Schüttpelz explores this question in his new book Medium, Medium: Elemente einer Anthropologie ... read more
23 June 2025
New publication: Studies on the digital future in the Middle East and North African Region
Current dissertations from the Project B04 "Digital Publics and Social Transformation in the Maghreb" out now by Konstantin Aal and Sarah Rüller (University of Siegen) This spring, two dissertations from the project B04 "Digital Publics ... read more
18 June 2025
New working paper on smart home ecologies
How does intelligent, sensor-based media technologies change everyday household practices? by Tim Hector, Niklas Strüver, Stephan Habscheid and Dagmar Hoffmann (all Siegen University, CRC)   In our new Working Paper (No. 36) "Sensory ... read more
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Upcoming Events

Tue. 15 July 2025
Workshop "Chronologistics: Eastern European Media Histories"
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Wed. 16 July 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Lecture Series “Unstitching Datafication” #8 Dan McQuillan: Decomputing as Resistance
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Wed. 16 July 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Board Meeting
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Mon. 21 July 2025 - Tue. 22 July 2025
MGK Colloquium SoSe 2025
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Mon. 08 September 2025 - Fri. 12 September 2025
Conference / Autumn School "Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI"
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Mon. 06 October 2025 - Tue. 07 October 2025
Klausurtagung / Retreat
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Partner Institutions

The CRC’s main location is at the University of Siegen. Further nodes in our research network are located at universities in Cologne, Hagen, Bochum, Frankfurt/Oder, Bonn, Constance, and Luxembourg. There are also close collaborations with renowned international scholars and research institutions in Chicago, Warwick, Basel, Waltham, and Lviv.