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Since the beginning of the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, materials and methods from the Harold Garfinkel Archive have grounded research and initiated productive discussions for understanding media practices. The work began with an onsite workshop at the Archive in 2016.

For the third phase we are bringing together another group of practicing ethnomethodologists for an onsite workshop to probe that legacy in the light of ongoing ethnographic and archival research. The workshop offers a venue to tackle core issues of the third funding phase in the context of P01 research on the sociology of perception, technical mediation, and multi-sensorial practice(s).

The workshop will scrutinize and further develop the mutually instructive relationship between archival work and ethnographic research, while also considering the Archive as a field site and material reservoir for doing practical research on topics such as instructed action, embodied practice, the interactional construction of sensing and “dis-abilities”, tutorial problems, and “et cetera”.

With contributions by Anne W. Rawls, Michael Lynch, Jakub Mlynář, Jason Turowetz, Philippe Sormani, and Clemens Eisenmann.

The event is primarily planned as an on-site event. To participate, please reach out to Dr. Clemens Eisenmann.

hosted by Hoa Mai Tran (B05) and Konstantin Aal (B04)

As part of the presence weeks, we invite all SFB member to „snacks&drinks“ at the Herrengarten on Wednesdays during lunch and early afternoon. The format aims to improve networking between projects and colleagues and help integrate our new SFB members by having an informal get-together and serving snacks and drinks. 

Topics can be submitted to the board meetings via the status representatives two weeks before the meeting at the latest. Invitations go out two weeks before the meeting. Funding applications must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation, cost estimate, detailed cost overview, and programme.

Applications  must be submitted at least two weeks in advance via the coordination (Dominik Schrey), including an explanation and additional documents. For further information, please refer to the following templates. Please note that the tempolates are only available in German. For english versions please contact Dominik Schrey:

• Application for association
• Application for funding of a publication
• Application for funding of an event

The board meetings include reports, public topics, and various which are open to all SFB members. Personal and financial matters won’t be public and will be discussed after the public part. Webex links for online participation will be sent out on the previous Friday. Attendance on-site is possible. 

Digital protocols will be provided via sciebo. 

We started the new „Scales of Cooperation“working group in May by launching the first lecture series on „Scales of Sovereignty“. Following the working group’s kick-off, we plan to have two online reading sessions on literature and key SFB texts on cooperation and scaling infrastructures and publics this summer. The first session includes the following literature:

reading material: Callon, Michel; Latour, Bruno (1981): „Unscrewing the Big Leviathan or How Actors Macrostructure Reality and How Sociologists Help Them To Do So?“ in: K. Knorr, A. Cicourel (eds.), Advances in Social Theory and Methodology, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Londres, pp. 277-303.

The discussion will be in English.

June 27, 2024 14:00-19:00 / June 28, 2024   9:00-13:00

Registration deadline: May 31, 2024

In advance: individual telephone conversation to discuss reference to your own project and materials.

The aim of this master class is to experience the experimental approach of camera ethnography and to try out arranging research (with reference to Wittgenstein) together by referring to the diversity of research fields which will be represented in the workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring some of their own research material to this workshop.

Filming as an epistemic practice

In our everyday use of media, we simply believe that we can capture something with a camera and share it with each other. However, if we assume that the goal of research is to get beyond the state of what is known and seen so far, then we are dealing with epistemic things that are not yet visible at first and therefore cannot just be recorded with a camera. With this consideration, Bina E. Mohn, the founder of camera ethnography, refers to the sociological laboratory studies of the 1980s and 1990s. Starting from a premise of the not (yet) visible marks the departure from strategies of camera use that assume visibility exists a priori. Camera ethnography offers a manageable representation-critical approach based on a situated methodology and can be understood as a continuous reflexive process of working on visibility and seeing. Camera ethnography lends itself particularly well to the study of nonverbal practices and socio-material constellations. Furthermore, camera ethnography is particularly suitable for an adoption of the format “übersichtliche Darstellung” (Wittgenstein): In this context, filmic arrangements serve as an attempt to answer the question of how social practices can be lived, named, and understood here and now, and there and then. For viewers of camera-ethnographic publications, this offers an opportunity to discover unexpected things about the diversity and possibility of social phenomena and practices.

The basic book by Bina E. Mohn „Kamera-Ethnographie. Ethnographische  Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis“ has been published in 2023, is open access and underpins this master class. Important references of the camera-ethnographic approach include Bruno Latour (science-in-the-making), Karin Knorr-Cetina (epistemic cultures), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (experimental systems), Clifford Geertz (“thick description”), Ludwig Wittgenstein (language games and “übersichtliche Darstellung”), and Karen Barad (agential realism and intra-action).

Requirements for participation

• Experience in ethnographic fieldwork, regardless of the medium
• Readiness to change perspectives and media and to experiment.

Registration for the master class

Contact and registration: wiesemann@erz-wiss.uni-siegen.de

Registration deadline: May 31, 2024. Participation will be bindingly confirmed by the organizers by June 7, 2024. Please briefly answer these questions when registering:

• Which research project am I currently working on and which practices in this field am I particularly interested in?
• What questions do I have about media ethnographic theory and practice?
• Which materials would I like to bring to the master class on camera ethnography?

Bina will be available to make more detailed arrangements with each of you via telephone.

We started the new „Scales of Cooperation“working group in May by launching the first lecture series on „Scales of Sovereignty“. Following the working group’s kick-off, we plan to have two online reading sessions on literature and key SFB texts on cooperation and scaling infrastructures and publics this summer. The first session includes the following literature:

main reading material: Schüttpelz Erhard (2017): „Infrastructural Media and Public Media“ in: Media in Action 1(1): 13–61.

There is on-going public criticism and concern around practices and techniques of identification on digital media and the mass collection of personal data by platforms. But what is ‘digital identity’ and how is it mutually produced by digital companies and legal regulations?

The workshop is intended to address legal issues relating to targeted advertising and, in particular, the question of when data used for advertising purposes loses its personal relation (Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR), i.e. becomes anonymous, so that the GDPR no longer applies to it. 

Civil identity includes data such as name, home address, date of birth and other classic markers. For the advertising industry, however, other identity-forming factors are more important, such as income, hobbies/interests, approximate residential area, mobility data or data about users’ end devices. Against this background, the question arises as to when data relating to such a “digital identity” loses its personal reference to the extent that it is considered anonymized. 

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

10:15 – 11:30 Maximilian Becker and Leonie Bültmann: Personal Data and the Boundaries of Anonymity

11:45 – 13:00 Jann Cornels: The European Court of Justice (ECJ) Ruling on the Interactive

Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and its Consequences for Targeted Advertising

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 Elisabeth Niekrenz: Real-Time Bidding: Current Technical Developments and Litigation Challenges

16:15 – 17:30 Annalisa Pelizza: Towards a Translational Approach to Identification: The Art of Choosing the Right Spokespersons at the Securitized Border

17:30 – 18:00 Closing Discussion

hosted by Kevin Onland (A03/Z) and Max Kanderske (A03)

As part of the presence weeks, we invite all SFB member to „snacks&drinks“ at the Herrengarten on Wednesdays during lunch and early afternoon. The format aims to improve networking between projects and colleagues and help integrate our new SFB members by having an informal get-together and serving snacks and drinks. 

2:15pm – 3:00 

Marcus Burkhardt, Max Becker und Yarden Skop (A07)

Personal Data Industry

3:00pm – 3:45pm

Miglè Bareikyte (P06)

War Sensing