Projects
A INFRASTRUCTURES
A01 Digital Network Technologies between Specialization and Generalization
A03 Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces
A04 Normal Interruptions of Service. Structure and Change of Public Infrastructures
A05 The Cooperative Creation of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society
A07 The Industry of Personal Data
B PUBLICS
B04 Digital Publics and Social Transformation in the Maghreb
B05 (Early) Childhood and Smartphone. Family Interaction Order, Learning Processes and Cooperation
B06 Un/desired Observation in Interaction: Smart Environments, Language, Body, and Senses in Private Households
B08 Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy
B09 Bicycle Media. Cooperative Media of Mobility
P SENSORY PRAXEOLOGY
P01 Media of Praxeology I: Multisensory Mediality and Cooperative Practice
P02 Media of Praxeology II: Anthropology of Cooperation: Skill, Deixis, Interaction
P04 Precision Farming: Co-operative Practices of Virtual Fencing
P05 Social Interaction in Semi-Automated Road Traffic
P06 War Sensing
PROGRAMM MODULES
INF Infrastructures for Collaborative Sensory RDM Practices
MGK Integrated Research Training Group
Ö Public Relations: Cooperative Research and Design
Z Central Administration
COMPLETED PROJECTS
A02 The Culture of Telecommunication Standardisation in the Tensions of the Digital and Neoliberal ‚Double Revolution’
A06 Visual Integrated Clinical Cooperation
B01 Before Eighteenth-Century Studies. Practices and Theories of Literary Publics (1900–1975)
B03 “Going Public“ in Media-Cooperative Forms of Engagement
B07 Media Practices and Copyright Law: Social and Legal Framework for the Cooperative and Derivative Creation of Copyrighted Works in the Digital Environment
P03 Media of Praxeology III: Digital Tools and Environments for Research
Ö Public Infrastructures: Visibility and Invisibility
ASSOCIATED PROJETCS
Culture, Practice, Technology: On the Philosophical Foundation of the International Techno-Anthropology in the Durkheim School
Bicycle Media: Analyses of a Cooperatively Moving Medium
Blockchains in Action
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Members
all Members
Events
CURRENT EVENTS
ANNUAL CONFERENCES
Politics of Cooperative Sensing (2026)
The datafied Web (2025)
Scaling Sensing – Sensing Publics (2024)
Digital Twins & Doubles (2023)
Testing in the Wild (2022)
Re-Situating Learning (2021)
Pandemic Cooperation (2020)
Data Practices (2019)19
Media in the Wild (2018)
Varieties of Cooperation (2017)
Infrastructures of Publics – Publics of Infrastructures (2016)
LECTURE SERIES
Cooperative Methodologies – Studying sensory media and AI (2026)
Synthetic Methods (2025/26)
Unstitching Datafication (2025)
Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance (2024/25)
Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking (2023/24)
Research at Risk (2022/23)
Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy (2022/23)
Testing Infrastructures (2022)
Learning (in) Digital Media (21/22)
Interrogating Data Practices (20/21)
Data Ethnography (19/20)
Data Practices (18/19)
Kooperationen an den Grenzen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit (17/18)
Offenheit und Teilhabe (16/17)
CRITICAL DATA SCHOOLS
Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI (2026)
Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI (2025)
AI Methods: From Probing to Prompting (2025)
More than Data: Positionality and Situatedness in Digital Media Research (2023)
Breaching Digital Media: Respecifying Ethnomethodology (2021)
WERKSTATT (MEDIEN)PRAXISTHEORIE
Workshop (Media) Practice Theory
Media Praxis Theory Winter in the 3rd funding period (2024-2027)
Media Praxis Theory in the 2nd funding period
Practice Theory in the 1st funding period (2016-2020)
Dissertations
Dissertation Defense: Niklas Strüver – Speaking on behalf of the periphery: Third-party relationships in Amazons’s Alexa ecosystem
Dissertation Defense: Hoa Mai Trần – The Virtual Self in the In-Between: An Ethnographic Study of Childhood and Children’s Modes of Existence in Digital Play.
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Projects
A INFRASTRUCTURES
A01 Digital Network Technologies between Specialization and Generalization
A03 Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces
A04 Normal Interruptions of Service. Structure and Change of Public Infrastructures
A05 The Cooperative Creation of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society
A07 The Industry of Personal Data
B PUBLICS
B04 Digital Publics and Social Transformation in the Maghreb
B05 (Early) Childhood and Smartphone. Family Interaction Order, Learning Processes and Cooperation
B06 Un/desired Observation in Interaction: Smart Environments, Language, Body, and Senses in Private Households
B08 Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy
B09 Bicycle Media. Cooperative Media of Mobility
P SENSORY PRAXEOLOGY
P01 Media of Praxeology I: Multisensory Mediality and Cooperative Practice
P02 Media of Praxeology II: Anthropology of Cooperation: Skill, Deixis, Interaction
P04 Precision Farming: Co-operative Practices of Virtual Fencing
P05 Social Interaction in Semi-Automated Road Traffic
P06 War Sensing
PROGRAMM MODULES
INF Infrastructures for Collaborative Sensory RDM Practices
MGK Integrated Research Training Group
Ö Public Relations: Cooperative Research and Design
Z Central Administration
COMPLETED PROJECTS
A02 The Culture of Telecommunication Standardisation in the Tensions of the Digital and Neoliberal ‚Double Revolution’
A06 Visual Integrated Clinical Cooperation
B01 Before Eighteenth-Century Studies. Practices and Theories of Literary Publics (1900–1975)
B03 “Going Public“ in Media-Cooperative Forms of Engagement
B07 Media Practices and Copyright Law: Social and Legal Framework for the Cooperative and Derivative Creation of Copyrighted Works in the Digital Environment
P03 Media of Praxeology III: Digital Tools and Environments for Research
Ö Public Infrastructures: Visibility and Invisibility
ASSOCIATED PROJETCS
Culture, Practice, Technology: On the Philosophical Foundation of the International Techno-Anthropology in the Durkheim School
Bicycle Media: Analyses of a Cooperatively Moving Medium
Blockchains in Action
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Members
all Members
Events
CURRENT EVENTS
ANNUAL CONFERENCES
Politics of Cooperative Sensing (2026)
The datafied Web (2025)
Scaling Sensing – Sensing Publics (2024)
Digital Twins & Doubles (2023)
Testing in the Wild (2022)
Re-Situating Learning (2021)
Pandemic Cooperation (2020)
Data Practices (2019)19
Media in the Wild (2018)
Varieties of Cooperation (2017)
Infrastructures of Publics – Publics of Infrastructures (2016)
LECTURE SERIES
Cooperative Methodologies – Studying sensory media and AI (2026)
Synthetic Methods (2025/26)
Unstitching Datafication (2025)
Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance (2024/25)
Crises, Sensing and Sensemaking (2023/24)
Research at Risk (2022/23)
Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy (2022/23)
Testing Infrastructures (2022)
Learning (in) Digital Media (21/22)
Interrogating Data Practices (20/21)
Data Ethnography (19/20)
Data Practices (18/19)
Kooperationen an den Grenzen zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit (17/18)
Offenheit und Teilhabe (16/17)
CRITICAL DATA SCHOOLS
Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI (2026)
Synthetic Imaginaries: The Cultural Politics of Generative AI (2025)
AI Methods: From Probing to Prompting (2025)
More than Data: Positionality and Situatedness in Digital Media Research (2023)
Breaching Digital Media: Respecifying Ethnomethodology (2021)
WERKSTATT (MEDIEN)PRAXISTHEORIE
Workshop (Media) Practice Theory
Media Praxis Theory Winter in the 3rd funding period (2024-2027)
Media Praxis Theory in the 2nd funding period
Practice Theory in the 1st funding period (2016-2020)
Dissertations
Dissertation Defense: Niklas Strüver – Speaking on behalf of the periphery: Third-party relationships in Amazons’s Alexa ecosystem
Dissertation Defense: Hoa Mai Trần – The Virtual Self in the In-Between: An Ethnographic Study of Childhood and Children’s Modes of Existence in Digital Play.
EVENT ARCHIVE
Research
Research Program
Research Data
Publications
Working Paper Series
Mercator Fellows
Integrated Research Training Group (MGK)
Research History
News
Research
Calls
Publications
Events
Job offers
MGK Writing Week
Sunday, 18 October 2026 - Friday, 23 October 2026
Venue
Jugendherberge Kloster Höchst
Contact
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