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A03 - Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces
Visualization of the sensory recognition that takes place on board Waymo vehicles. (Source: Waymo)
Principal Investigators:
Researchers:
Max Kanderske (associated)
Former Researchers:
A03 explores how sensor-based and autonomous navigation reconfigures current accounts of mapping, spatiality, autonomy and movement. For this purpose, A03 conducts two case studies (on SLAM-based indoor navigation and networked outdoor navigation of autonomous vehicles, respectively), which are complemented by a comprehensive analysis of the specificity of sensor media vis à vis their platforms, infrastructures and data practices. The subproject employs digital and ethnographic research methods to describe and theorize the mutual making of shared media, data and spatial practices that characterize contemporary navigation processes. The project draws on situative methodological approaches, including praxeological techniques (focusing on navigational use), multi-sited ethnography (focusing on navigational decisions), and software/platform analysis techniques (focusing on navigational infrastructures). Utilizing digital methods, we experiment with the collection, analysis, and visualisation of sensory data to understand the layers of technical mediation underpinning sensory navigation. The project claims that sensor-based and increasingly autonomous modes of navigation are reconfiguring the practices and infrastructures of cooperative navigation, thereby challenging distinctions between the online/offline, indoor/outdoor, micro-level/macro-level.
HERE 360 interface mockup for sensor-based object detection. (Source: HERE Technologies)
Publications
2020
Kanderske, M. (2020). Echtzeitgeographie: Simultane Lokalisierung und Kartierung. In T. Thielmann & M. Kanderske (Eds.), Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Nomos.
Thielmann, T., & Kanderske, M. (Eds.). (2020). Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Nomos.
2019
Dieter, M., Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., Tkacz, N., van der Vlist, F. N., & Weltevrede, E. (2019). Multi-situated App Studies: Methods and Propositions. Social Media & Society, 5(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119846486
Gekker, A., & Hind, S. (2019). Infrastructural surveillance. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819879426
Gerlitz, C., & Weltevrede, E. (2019). What happens to ANT, and its emphasis on the socio-material grounding of the social, in digital sociology? In C. Roberts, I. Farias, & A. Blok (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (pp. 345–356). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/bc4ede87-29ab-4f42-af56-97a981d169be
Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., van der Vlist, F. N., & Weltevrede, E. (2019). Regramming the Platform? Infrastructural Relations between Apps and Social Media. In Computational Culture . Special Issue 7: Apps and Infrastructures. http://computationalculture.net/regramming-the-platform/.
Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., Nieborg, D. B., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2019). Apps and Infrastructures – a Research Agenda. Computational Culture, Apps and Infrastructures (Special Issue)(7). http://computationalculture.net/apps-and-infrastructures-a-research-agenda/
Helmond, A., & Van der Vlist, F. N. (2019). Social Media and Platform Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities. TMG Journal for Media History, 22(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.434
Helmond, A., Nieborg, D. B., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2019). Facebook’s evolution: development of a platform-as-infrastructure. Internet Histories, 3(2), 123–146. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667
Hind, S. (2019). Digital Navigation and the Driving-Machine: Supervision, Calculation, Optimization, and Recognition. Mobilities, 14(4), 401–417. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1569581
Hind, S., & Gekker, A. (2019). On Autopilot: Towards a Flat Ontology of Vehicular Navigation. In C. Lukinbeal, L. Sharp, E. Sommerlad, & A. Escher (Eds.), Media’s Mapping Impulse (pp. 141–160). Franz Steiner Verlag. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ON-AUTOPILOT%3A-TOWARDS-A-FLAT-ONTOLOGY-OF-VEHICULAR-Gekker-Hind/36714e4456ea5055588b99b99268779223180248
Kanderske, M., & Thielmann, T. (2019). SLAM and the Situativeness of a New Generation of Geomedia Technologies. Communication and the Public, 4(2), 118–132. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2057047319851208
Thielmann, T. (2019). The Bicycle at the End of the 19th Century: An Instrument for Land Surveying and Mapping. Proceedings of the 29th International Cartographic Conference, 2, 129. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-129-2019
Thielmann, T. (2019). Sensormedien: Eine medien- und praxistheoretische Annäherung. Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series 9. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/wps1187/article/view/45
2018
Alinejad, D., Candidatu, L. I., Mevsimler, M., Minchilli, C., Ponzanesi, S., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2018). Diaspora and mapping methodologies: tracing transnational digital connections with ‘mattering maps.’ Global Networks, a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12197
Bender, H. (2018). The New Aerial Age: Die wechselseitige Verfertigung gemeinsamer Raum- und Medienpraktiken am Beispiel von Drohnen-Communities. In N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Kollaboration: Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit (pp. 121–145). Wilhelm Fink. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_008
Dieter, M., Gerlitz, C., Helmond, A., & Tkacz, N. (2018). Store, interface, package, connection. 18. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/wps1187/article/view/29
Gerlitz, C. (2018). Retrieving. In C. Lury (Ed.), The International Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods (pp. 126–131). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315714523-19
Gerlitz, C., & Rieder, B. (2018). Tweets Are Not Created Equal: investigating Twitter’s client ecosystem. International Journal of Communication : IJoC, 12, 528–547. https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/4da1d406-1213-4103-8237-eef5ae786948
Ghanbari, N., Otto, I., Schramm, S., & Thielmann, T. (2018). Einleitung. In N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit (pp. 1–17). Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_002
Ghanbari, N., Otto, I., Schramm, S., & Thielmann, T. (Eds.). (2018). Kollaboration: Beiträge zur Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit. Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403
Gray, J., Gerlitz, C., & Bounegru, L. (2018). Data Infrastructure Literacy. Big Data & Society, 5(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2053951718786316
Hind Sam, Perkins Chris, Gekker Alex, Evans Daniel, Lammes Sybille, & Wilmott Clancy. (2018). Time for mapping : Cartographic temporalities. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526122537/
Kanderske, M., & Thielmann, T. (2018). Virtuelle Geographien. In D. Kasprowicz & S. Rieger (Eds.), Handbuch Virtualität. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16358-7_12-2
Lommel, M. (2018). Was ist Zeit? Synergien im Omnibusfilm Ten Minutes Older. In N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit (pp. 57–80). Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_005
Marres, N., & Gerlitz, C. (2018). Social Media as Experiments in Sociality. In N. Marres, M. Guggenheim, & A. Wilckie (Eds.), Inventing the Social (pp. 253–286). Matterning Press. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/103450/
Opper, T. (2018). Spiel, Satz und Match‘. Zur kollaborativen Spezifik von Dating-Apps. In N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit (pp. 97–120). Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_007
Pánek, J., Gekker, A., Hind, S., Wendler, J., Perkins, C., & Lammes, S. (2018). Encountering Place: Mapping and Location-Based Games in Interdisciplinary Education. The Cartographic Journal, 55(3), 1–12. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00087041.2017.1386342
Thielmann, T. (2018). Der einleuchtende Grund digitaler Bilder. Die Mediengeschichte und Medienpraxistheorie des Displays. In U. Frohne, L. Haberer, & A. Urban (Eds.), Display / Dispositiv. Ästhetische Ordnungen. Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846756348_022
Thielmann, T. (2018). Die bewegte Mediengeschichte des Fotofahrtenführers: ein Co-Motion-Picture. In N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, & T. Thielmann (Eds.), Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit. Fink. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_009
Thielmann, T. (2018). Early Digital Images: A Praxeology of the Display. In L. Feiersinger, K. Friedrich, & M. Queisner (Eds.), Image – Action – Space: Situating the Screen in Visual Practice (pp. 41–54). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110464979-004
Thielmann, T., Schulz, C., & Lommel, M. (2018). Das Fahrrad: Ein Medium der Landerschließung. In C. Zimmermann (Ed.), Landmedien und mediale Bilder von Ländlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert (Vol. 15, pp. 205–230). Studien Verlag.
2017
Gerlitz, C. (2017). The multivalence of consumer affect. In K. Hetherington, P. Harvey, & T. Bennett (Eds.), Charisma and the Arts of Market Attachment. Routledge.
Gerlitz, C. (2017). Soziale Medien. In T. Hecken & M. S. Kleiner (Eds.), Handbuch Popkultur (pp. 235–239). Metzler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05601-6_44
Helmond, A., Nieborg, D. B., & van der Vlist, F. N. (2017). The Political Economy of Social Data: A Historical Analysis of Platform-Industry Partnerships. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 38:1–38:5. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097324
Hind, S. (2017). A Manifesto for Playful Methods. Self-published.
Hind, S. (2017). Cartographic Care, or, Caretographies. Living Maps Review, 3, 1–14. http://livingmaps.review/journal/index.php/LMR/article/view/67/136
Lisa Ramella, A., Lehmuskallio, A., Thielmann, T., & Abend, P. (2017). Introduction Mobile Digital Practices. Situating People, Things, and Data. Digital Culture & Society, 3. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2017-0202
Passmann, J., & Gerlitz, C. (2017). Popularisierung einer digitalen Medien-Praktik. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 47(3), 375–393. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-017-0067-1
Ramella, A. L., Lehmuskallio, A., Thielmann, T., & Abend, P. (Eds.). (2017). Mobile digital practices. transcript. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3821-9/digital-culture-society-dcs/
van der Vlist, F. N. (2017). Counter-Mapping Surveillance: A Critical Cartography of Mass Surveillance Technology After Snowden. Surveillance & Society, 15(1), 137–157. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0325
van der Vlist, F. N. (2017). App support ecologies: An empirical investigation of app–platform relations. App Studies Initative, 1. http://appstudies.org/2017/04/05/app-support-ecologies/
van der Vlist, F. N., & Helmond, A. (2017). Speculative data selfies. Internet Policy Review. https://policyreview.info/articles/news/speculative-data-selfies/449
2016
Gerlitz, C. (2016). Data Point Critique. In M. T. Schäfer & karin van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society Studying Culture through Data (pp. 241–245). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12478
Gerlitz Carolin. (2016). What Counts? Reflections on the Multivalence of Social Media Data. Digital Culture & Society, 2(2), 19–38. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0203
Gerlitz Carolin. (2016). Bots, Software und Parasitäre Ökonomien. POP, 5(2), 54–58. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14361/pop-2016-0208
Hind, S. (2016). Territorial Determinism: Police Exercises, Training Spaces and Manoeuvres. In Playful Mapping in the Digital Age (pp. 94–113). Institute of Network Cultures. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29626
Hind, S. (2016). Driving the Future. Wealth Press: Work and Time Issue, 10–13.
Hind, S. (2016). Playful Mapping in the Digital Age. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29626
Thielmann, T. (2016). Linked Photography: A Praxeological Analysis of Augmented Reality Navigation in the Early 20th Century. In C. Gómez & A. Lehmuskallio (Eds.), Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices (pp. 160–185). Routledge. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/digital-photography-and/9781317447771/023_9781138899803_ch10.html
van der Vlist, F. N. (2016). Accounting for the social: Investigating commensuration and Big Data practices at Facebook. Big Data & Society, 3(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716631365