Gießmann, Sebastian, Dr. habil.

A01 Principal Investigator

Universität Siegen


AH-A 216

Herrengarten 3

57072 Siegen


Telefon: +49 (0)271-740-2586

I work at the intersections of digital media, praxeology and network history. Within Media of Cooperation my research is dedicated to financial technologies, the World Wide Web, Blockchain infrastructures, and Artificial Intelligence. Together with Valérie Schafer, Ben Peters, and Thomas Haigh, I create new intersections between media studies, history, and science and technology studies. Along with Joerg Potthast, I have established the CRC's Lecture and Workshop Series on Practice Theory that aims for new connections between media and social theory. We specifically focus on media, data and sensory practices 'inbetween' infrastructures and publics. I co-edit the book series Locating Media | Situated Media together with Gabriele Schabacher, Jens Schröter, Erhard Schüttpelz and Tristan Thielmann. More on research interests, teaching, CV, and publications can be found via www.sebastiangiessmann.de.

Selection of monographs and publications. All publications and full texts at http://netzeundnetzwerke.de/publikationen.

 

  • Memory, Mind & Media, Cambridge University Press (International Editorial Board).
  • Technographies, Open Humanities Press (Advisory Board).
  • Locating Media | Situierte Medien, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg Locating Media, transcript (co-edited with Gabriele Schabacher, Jens Schröter, Erhard Schüttpelz and Tristan Thielmann).
  • co-edited with Valérie Schafer: “The Datafied Web”, special issue von Internet Histories, 2026 (in preparation).
  • co-edited with Carolin Gerlitz: “Test”. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 29, 2023.
  • co-edited with Tobias Röhl, Ronja Trischler and Martin Zilliger: Materiality of Cooperation, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2023.
  • co-edited with Tobias Röhl und Ronja Trischler: Materialität der Kooperation. Wiesbaden: Springer (Media of Cooperation), 2019.
  • co-edited with Nadine Taha: Susan Leigh Star. Grenzobjekte und Medienforschung. Bielefeld 2017.
  • co-edited with Holger Brohm, Gabriele Schabacher, Sandra Schramke: Workarounds. Praktiken des Umwegs. ilinx, Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, no. 4 (2017).
  • edited for the AG Medien der Kooperation: Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 15/1 (2015): Medien der Kooperation.
  • co-edited with Marcus Burkhardt: Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung 3/1 (2014): Was ist Datenkritik?

Last updated: January 29, 2026