A03 - Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces

SFB 1187-Projekt-A03-2024

 

„The project is dedicated to the media-theoretical question of how media and spaces are produced cooperatively through navigational practices. To this end, it examines the interplay of motile and mobile components of sensor-loaded urban micronavigation.“

 

 

Executive summary

The sub-project is dedicated to the media-theoretical question of how media and spaces are brought about cooperatively through navigational practices. After A03 dealt with transforming navigation applications to social media and platforms in the first phase, the second funding phase focused on semi-autonomous navigation processes. In the third funding phase, the sub-project examines decision-intensive, media-supported navigation situations in urban areas characterized by an infrastructure loaded with sensor technology. In the literature on the "“Internet of Things”, this mode of mobility is also described as context-related micronavigation. Micronavigation is defined as a form of movement characterized by common data, media and spatial practices, in which transport media and modes are used relatively briefly or changed frequently. The aim of the sub-project is to analyze and theoretically describe the cooperative production of data, media and space practices in micronavigation across online and offline worlds. Focus of the project is empirically researching two forms of navigation: micronavigation with the help of augmented reality devices and micronavigation with e-bikes/scooters in urban areas. Using inventive methods, the project examines how both case studies attempt to create transitions that are as seamless as possible between online- and offline spaces, between means of transport, apps, but also the human and technical sensorium. A03 asks how sensor-intensive navigation media measure and calculate bodies, movements and surroundings and thereby platform urban space, e.g. by integrating their data into political mobility discourses and – ostensibly sustainable – urban infrastructure planning. Based on the analysis of micromotility with local media and micromobility in the urban vicinity, the sub-project is able to develop a common spatial and media theory of micronavigation. Through its empirical case studies, it also specifies a sensor-media understanding of (platform-) media as “environing media.”

 

Research Aims

A03 investigates micro-navigation in urban spaces.
We define micro-navigation as a form of mobility in which various media and modes of transport are used over short distances, situationally and in close proximity to the body. Micro-navigation is characterised by an intensive entanglement of media, data and spatial practices. A03 studies these practices in urban spaces, focussing on how micro-navigation unfolds with augmented reality apps and glasses, as well as with e-bikes and e-scooters. In doing so, the project aims at:

  1. Defininging the relationship between media-supported motility and mobility practices in the context of urban navigation
  2. Developing a media theory of micronavigation that focuses on seamlessness as a situated accomplishment and socio-technical imaginary
  3. Expand the platform concept for "Environing Media".
AR-Navigation mittels Google Maps (© Google)
AR-Navigation mittels Google Maps
(© Google)

Methods

To account for the specificity of its research objects, A03 combines methods into Inventive Mixed Methods, building on and expanding proven material-semiotic approaches as well as on praxeological and (sensor-) ethnographic methods for researching multimodal micro-navigation processes. The project will enhance "Sensory Digital Methods" to enquire into the background cooperation characterising the sensor media and platforms used in urban navigation.

TIER Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Plattform und App (© Google Playstore)
TIER Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Plattform und App
(© Google Playstore)

App- und Deviceökologie eines E-Bikes (© VanMoof Blog)
App- und Deviceökologie eines E-Bikes
(© VanMoof Blog)

Work Program

WP1 "Micromotility with Proximate Media" examines the motile component of urban micro-navigation along the example of smart glasses, AR apps and wearables [1] from a historical perspective, [2] praxeologically, and [3] with regard to the imaginaries of seamlessness, maplessness and framelessness.

WP2 "Micromobility in Proximate Spaces" studies urban micro-mobility by means of e-bikes/scooters with a focus on [1] software & infrastructures, [2] practices, and [3] platformisation.

WP3 "Sensory navigation in online/offline spaces" reflects on methodological approaches and consolidates the results of the case studies. WP3 will make three theoretical key contributions:

  1. Refine the qualitative understanding of data
  2. Develop a praxeology of distributed immersion
  3. Synthesise a sensory platform theory of micro-navigation
Mikronavigation in der urbanen Alltagspraxis (© micromobility.io)
Mikronavigation in der urbanen Alltagspraxis
(© micromobility.io)

 

➔ Find the project archive 2020–2023 here

 

Publications

Current

„Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice“

‘Digital methods’ turn to medium-specific and online avenues for social and cultural research. While these approaches foster empirical media studies, it has become increasingly challenging to ‘follow the medium’ and ‘repurpose’ its methods. The prominence of sensory media such as ‘smart’ networked devices (e.g. mobile phones) in mundane practices and their infrastructural dependencies confront media scholars with highly contingent objects of study.

Yet, studying such sensor-based devices is crucial, for they enable continuous and unnoticed monitoring of everyday (inter)activity. The article suggests that developing digital methods for sensory media can be understood as specific ‘critical technical practice’ (CTP) by engaging with two toolmaking stories. It draws on and emphasises the fundamental similarity between CTP and digital methods which both aim at conjoining technical engagement and understanding with methodological reflection. The toolmaking stories explicate the making of and the limitations to developing digital methods for increasingly obfuscated mobile sensory media, exploring the possibilities of repurposing their functionality and data. They include building tools for app code analysis focused on apps’ capacity to track sensor data, as well as for ‘sensing’ and analysing network traffic of mobile devices in use. The featured toolmaking then unravels distinctive research affordances, that is, action possibilities for ‘static’ and ‘dynamic’ modes of analysis grappling with the technicity of mobile sensory media and their data. We argue that toolmaking as CTP for sensory media studies implies engaging with these media as entangled infrastructures, examining not just their social, but also their technical ‘multi-situatedness’. This involves investigating the ‘liveliness’ of their data, or how it is generated, processed and made sense of. In conclusion, we discuss implications for ‘doing digital methods’ in sensory media research. Toolmaking itself becomes an inevitable form of media research and critique, inviting and challenging researchers to deploy the media’s situatedness for their investigations.

Chao, Jason; Daniela van Geenen; Carolin Gerlitz und Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2024. “Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice”. Convergence. Special Issue: Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research 0 (0): 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791.

 

Forthcoming

Bender, Hendrik, and Max Kanderske. 2024. “Consumer Drone Warfare: Practices, Aesthetics and Discourses of Consumer Drones in the Russo-Ukrainian War”. In Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetic, edited by Elisa Serafinelli. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kanderske, Max. 2025. “Echtzeit-Geografien”. In Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis, edited by Tristan Thielmann and Max Kanderske. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Kanderske, Max. 2025. “Simultane Lokalisierung und Kartierung”. In Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Thielmann, Tristan, and Max Kanderske, eds. 2025. Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

2024

Chao, Jason, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2024. “Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice”. Convergence. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241226791.
Hind, Sam, Fernando van der Vlist, and Max Kanderske. 2024. “Challenges as catalysts: how Waymo’s Open Dataset Challenges shape AI development”. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01927-x.
Van Geenen, Daniela, Karin van Es, and Jonathan WY Gray, eds. 2024. “Special Issue: Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 30 (1): 5-683. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/1.

2023

Gießmann, Sebastian, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2023. “ Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt”. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 15 (29): 10–19. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20051.
Kanderske, Max. 2023. “Domesticating Motile Media: The Routes and Routines of Vacuum Robots”. Edited by David Waldecker, Tim Hector, Niklas Strüver, and Tanja Ertl. Digital Culture and Society 9 (1): 71-98. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0105.
Marres, Nortje, Gabriele Colombo, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan W. Y. Gray, Carolin Gerlitz, and James Tripp. 2023. “Testing and Not Testing for Coronavirus on Twitter: Surfacing Testing Situations Across Scales With Interpretative Methods”. Social Media + Society 9 (3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231196538.

2022

Bender, Hendrik, and Max Kanderske. 2022. “Co-Operative Aerial Images: A Geomedia History of the View from Above”. New Media & Society 24 (11): 2468-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221122201.
Borbach, Christoph, and Max Kanderske (Hrsg.). 2022. “Navigieren. Zugänge zu Medien und Praktiken der Raumdurchquerung”. Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18780.
Borbach, Christoph, and Max Kanderske. 2022. “Navigieren durch heterogene Räume. Wegfindungen jenseits des Nautischen”. Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 22 (1): 5-31. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18781.
Burkhardt, Marcus, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, Sam Hind, Timo Kaerlein, Danny Lämmerhirt, and Axel Volmar, eds. 2022. Interrogating Datafication. Towards a Praxeology of Data. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839455616.
Hind, Sam. 2022. “Machinic Sensemaking in the Streets: More-than-Lidar in Autonomous Vehicles”. In Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time, edited by Gillian Rose, 57-80. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53965.
Hind, Sam. 2022. “Cartographic Care, or Care-tographies: From London to Hong Kong”. In New Directions in Radical Cartography. Why the Map is Never the Territory, edited by Phil Cohen and Mike Duggan, 257-82. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littfield Publishers/ Rowman & Littfield Int. ISBN: 978-1-5381-4719-1. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147191/New-Directions-in-Radical-Cartography-Why-the-Map-is-Never-the-Territory.
Hind, Sam, and Alex Gekker. 2022. “Automotive Parasitism: Examining Mobilieye’s ’Car-Agnostic’ Platformisation”. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221104209.
Hind, Sam, Max Kanderske, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2022. “Making the Car ’Platform Ready’: How Big Tech is Driving the Platformisation of Automobility”. Social Media + Society 8 (2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221098697.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2022. “Die Datalität von Situationen. Zur Aktualität von Torsten Hägerstrand”. Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- & Kulturwissenschaften 22 (1): 239-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25879/ubsi/10108.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2022. “Environmental conditioning: Mobile geomedia and their lines of becoming in the air, on land, and on water”. New Media & Society.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., Anne Helmond, and Tatjana Seitz. 2022. “API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution”. Social Media + Society 8 (2): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221086228.

2021

Dieter, Michael, Anne Helmond, Nathaniel Tkacz, Fernando N. van der Vlist, and Esther Weltevrede. 2021. “Pandemic platform governance: Mapping the global ecosystem of COVID-19 response apps”. Internet Policy Review 10 (3). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.3.1568.
Helmond, Anne, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2021. “Platform and app histories: Assessing source availability in web archives and app repositories”. In The Past Web: Exploring Web Archives, edited by Daniel Gomez, Elena Demidova, Jane Winters, and Thomas Risse, 203-14. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_16.
Hind, Sam. 2021. “Introduction: Taking a ’Practice+’ Approach”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 18: 2-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9948.
Hind, Sam. 2021. “’Nahtlose Autonomie’: Nissans Vision von Interventionen durch Mobilitätsmanager:innen”. In Autonome Autos: Medien- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf die Zukunft der Mobilität, edited by Florian Sprenger, 283-314. Digitale Gesellschaft 32. Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839450246-010.
Hind, Sam. 2021. “Making Decisions: The Normal Interventions of Nissan ’Mobility Managers’”. Mobilities, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1988682.
Hind, Sam. 2021. “Dashboard Design and the ’Datafied’ Driving Experience”. Big Data & Society 8 (2): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211049862.
Hind, Sam, Magdalena Götz, Danny Lämmerhirt, Hannah Neumann, Anastasia-Patricia Och, Sebastian Randerath, and Tatjana Seitz (Hrsg.). 2021. “In the Spirit of Addition: Taking a ’Practice+’ Approach to Studying Media”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9948.
Hind, Sam, and Tatjana Seitz. 2021. “Agre’s Interactionism”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 18: 22-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9948.
Kanderske, Max. 2021. “Kranke Karten und elektronische Horizonte. Zur Stellung geografischer Informationssysteme im Kontext des autonomen Fahrens”. In Autonome Autos, edited by Florian Spenger, 315-36. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450246-011.
van der Vlist, Fernand N., Anne Helmond, Jason Chao, Michael Dieter, Nathaniel Tkacz, and Esther Weltevrede. 2021. “[COVID-19]-related Android (Google Play) and iOS (App Store) app ecosystems”. Open Science Framework (OSF), June 23. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/wq3dr.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., and Anne Helmond. 2021. “Business and data partnerships of the 20 most-used social media platforms”. Open Science Framework (OSF), May 22. https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/ekum8.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., and Anne Helmond. 2021. “How partners mediate platform power: Mapping business and data partnerships in the social media ecosystem”. Big Data & Society 8 (1): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211025061.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., and Anne Helmond. 2021. “Social media in the audience economy: Business-to-business partnerships and co-dependence”. In AoIR2021 Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR): 22nd 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. October 13-16. Chicago, IL: Association of Internet Researchers. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12256.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., Anne Helmond, Marcus Burkhardt, and Tatjana Seitz. 2021. “The technicity of platform governance: Structure and evolution of Facebook’s APIs”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 20. https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/9951.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., Anne Helmond, Marcus Burkhardt, and Tatjana Seitz. 2021. “The governance of Facebook Platform”. In AoIR2021 Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR): 22nd 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. October 13–16. Chicago, IL: Association of Internet Researchers. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12181.

2020

Abend, Pablo, and Max Kanderske. 2020. “Quantified Gaming. Praktiken und Metriken des verdateten Spiels”. Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 20 (1): 71-92. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14336.
Burkhardt, Marcus, Anne Helmond, Tatjana Seitz, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2020. “The Evolution of Facebook’s Graph API”. AoIR2020 Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR): 21st 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11185.
Gekker, Alex, and Sam Hind. 2020. “Re-Valuing Platforms, Reclaiming the Local”. AoIR2020 Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR): 21st 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/11119.
Hind, Sam. 2020. “Mobile Mapping”. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Audrey Kobayashi, 2nd ed., 133-40. Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10577-3.
Hind, Sam. 2020. “Between Capture and Addition: The Ontogenesis of Cartographic Calculation”. Political Geography 78: 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102147.
Hind, Sam. 2020. “’Living in a Box’: Distributed Control and Automation Surprises”. Technikgeschichte 87 (1): 43-68. https://doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2020-1-43.

2019

Dieter, M., C. Gerlitz, A. Helmond, N. Tkacz, F. N. van der Vlist, and E. Weltevrede. 2019. “Multi-situated App Studies: Methods and Propositions”. Social Media & Society 5 (2): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119846486.
Gekker, Alex, and Sam Hind. 2019. “Infrastructural surveillance”. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819879426.
Gerlitz, C. 2019. “Apps and Infrastructures – a Research Agenda”. Computational Culture, Apps and Infrastructures (Special Issue) 7. http://computationalculture.net/apps-and-infrastructures-a-research-agenda/.
Gerlitz, C., A. Helmond, F. N. van der Vlist, and E. Weltevrede. 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/..
Helmond, A. 2019. “Social Media and Platform Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities”. In TMG – Journal for Media History, 22:6–34. https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.434.
Helmond, A. 2019. “Facebook’s evolution: Development of a platform-as-infrastructure”. In Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, 3:123–146. https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667.
Hind, Sam. 2019. “Digital Navigation and the Driving-Machine: Supervision, Calculation, Optimization, and Recognition”. Mobilities 14 (4): 401-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1569581.
Hind, Sam, and Alex Gekker. 2019. “On Autopilot: Towards a Flat Ontology of Vehicular Navigation”. In Media’s Mapping Impulse, edited by Chris Lukinbeal, Laura Sharp, Elisabeth Sommerlad, and Anton Escher, 141–160. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ON-AUTOPILOT%3A-TOWARDS-A-FLAT-ONTOLOGY-OF-VEHICULAR-Gekker-Hind/36714e4456ea5055588b99b99268779223180248.
Kanderske, Max, and Tristan Thielmann. 2019. “SLAM and the Situativeness of a New Generation of Geomedia Technologies”. Communication and the Public 4 (2): 118-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/2057047319851208.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2019. “Sensormedien: Eine medien- und praxistheoretische Annäherung”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/31.
Thielmann, Tristan. 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/10.5194/ica-proc-2-129-2019.

2018

Alinejad, Donya, Laura I Candidatu, Melis Mevsimler, Claudia Minchilli, Sandra Ponzanesi, and Fernando N van der Vlist. 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, Hendrik. 2018. “The New Aerial Age: Die wechselseitige Verfertigung gemeinsamer Raum- und Medienpraktiken am Beispiel von Drohnen-Communities”. In Kollaboration: Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit, edited by N. Ghanbari, I. Otto, S. Schramm, and T. Thielmann, 121-45. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_008.
Dieter, Michael, Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, and Nathaniel Tkacz. 2018. “Store, interface, package, connection”, 18. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/wps1187/article/view/29.
Gerlitz, C., and B. Rieder. 2018. “Tweets Are Not Created Equal: investigating Twitter’s client ecosystem”. International Journal of Communication : IJoC 12: 528-47. https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/4da1d406-1213-4103-8237-eef5ae786948.
Gerlitz, Carolin. 2018. “Retrieving”. In The International Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods, edited by Celia Lury, 126-31. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315714523-19.
Hind Sam, Perkins Chris, Gekker Alex, Evans Daniel, Lammes Sybille, and Wilmott Clancy. 2018. Time for mapping : Cartographic temporalities. PB - Manchester University Press. ISBN: SN - 9781526122520. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526122537/.
Kanderske, Max, and Tristan Thielmann. 2018. “Virtuelle Geographien”. In Handbuch Virtualität, edited by Dawid Kasprowicz and Stefan Rieger. Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16358-7_12-2.
Lommel, Michael. 2018. “Was ist Zeit? Synergien im Omnibusfilm Ten Minutes Older”. In Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit, edited by Nacim Ghanbari, Isabell Otto, Samantha Schramm, and Tristan Thielmann, 57–80. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_005.
Marres, Noortje, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2018. “Social Media as Experiments in Sociality”. In Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim, and Alex Wilckie, 253-86. Manchester: Matterning Press. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/103450/.
Marres, Noortje, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2018. “Social Media as Experiments in Sociality”. In Inventing the Social, edited by Michael Guggenheim, Noortje Marres, and Alex Wilckie. Manchester: Mattering Press. https://www.matteringpress.org/books/inventing-the-social.
Opper, Teresa. 2018. “Spiel, Satz und Match‘. Zur kollaborativen Spezifik von Dating-Apps”. In Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit, edited by Nacim Ghanbari, Isabell Otto, Samantha Schramm, and Tristan Thielmann, 97-120. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_007.
Pánek, Jiří, Alex Gekker, Sam Hind, Jana Wendler, Chris Perkins, and Sybille Lammes. 2018. “Encountering Place: Mapping and Location-Based Games in Interdisciplinary Education”. The Cartographic Journal 55 (3): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00087041.2017.1386342.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2018. “Die bewegte Mediengeschichte des Fotofahrtenführers: ein Co-Motion-Picture”. In Kollaboration. Beiträge zu Medientheorie und Kulturgeschichte der Zusammenarbeit, edited by Nacim Ghanbari, Isabell Otto, Samantha Schramm, and Tristan Thielmann. Paderborn: Fink. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846758403_009.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2018. “Der einleuchtende Grund digitaler Bilder. Die Mediengeschichte und Medienpraxistheorie des Displays”. In Display / Dispositiv. Ästhetische Ordnungen, edited by Ursula Frohne, Lilian Haberer, and Annette Urban. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846756348_022.
Thielmann, Tristan, and Hendrik Bender. 2018. Medium Drohne: Die Praxistheorie fliegender Kameras. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3518-8/medium-drohne/.
Thielmann, Tristan, Carmen Schulz, and Michael Lommel. 2018. “Das Fahrrad: Ein Medium der Landerschließung”. In Landmedien und mediale Bilder von Ländlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Clemens Zimmermann, 15:205–230. Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag.

2017

Gerlitz, Carolin. 2017. “Soziale Medien”. In Handbuch Popkultur, edited by Thomas Hecken and Marcus S. Kleiner, 235-39. Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05601-6_44.
Gerlitz, Carolin. 2017. “The multivalence of consumer affect”. In Charisma and the Arts of Market Attachment, edited by K. Hetherington, P. Harvey, and T. Bennett. London: Routledge.
Helmond, Anne, David B. Nieborg, and Fernando N. van der Vlist. 2017. “The Political Economy of Social Data: A Historical Analysis of Platform-Industry Partnerships”. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 38:1–38:5. #SMSociety17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097324.
Hind, Sam. 2017. A Manifesto for Playful Methods. Self-published. https://thesemaphoreline.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/playfields_fieldguide_final.pdf.
Hind, Sam. 2017. “Cartographic Care, or, Caretographies”. Living Maps Review 3: 1-14. http://livingmaps.review/journal/index.php/LMR/article/view/67/136.
Passmann, Johannes, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2017. “Popularisierung einer digitalen Medien-Praktik”. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 47 (3): 375–393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-017-0067-1.
van der Vlist, Fernando N. 2017. “Counter-Mapping Surveillance: A Critical Cartography of Mass Surveillance Technology After Snowden”. Surveillance & Society 15 (1): 137-57. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0325.
van der Vlist, Fernando N., and Anne Helmond. 2017. “Speculative data selfies”. Internet Policy Review. https://policyreview.info/articles/news/speculative-data-selfies/449.

2016

Gerlitz Carolin. 2016. “Bots, Software und Parasitäre Ökonomien”. POP 5 (2): 54-58. https://doi.org/10.14361/pop-2016-0208.
Gerlitz Carolin. 2016. “What Counts? Reflections on the Multivalence of Social Media Data”. Digital Culture & Society 2 (2): 19-38. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2016-0203.
Gerlitz, Carolin. 2016. “Data Point Critique”. In The Datafied Society Studying Culture through Data, edited by Mirco T. Schäfer and karin van Es, 241-45. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12478.
Hind, Sam. 2016. “Driving the Future”. Wealth Press: Work and Time Issue, 10-13. https://thesemaphoreline.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/the-wealth-press-work-and-time-issue.pdf.
Hind, Sam. 2016. Playful Mapping in the Digital Age. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29626.
Hind, Sam. 2016. “Territorial Determinism: Police Exercises, Training Spaces and Manoeuvres”. In Playful Mapping in the Digital Age, 94-113. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29626.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2016. “Linked Photography: A Praxeological Analysis of Augmented Reality Navigation in the Early 20th Century”. In Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on Material Visual Practices, edited by Cruz Gómez and Asko Lehmuskallio, 160-85. London: Routledge. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/digital-photography-and/9781317447771/023_9781138899803_ch10.html.
van der Vlist, Fernando N. 2016. “Accounting for the social: Investigating commensuration and Big Data practices at Facebook”. Big Data & Society 3 (1): 1–16. 10.1177/2053951716631365.

2015

Marres, Noortje, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2015. “Interface Methods: Renegotiating Relations between Digital Social Research, STS and Sociology”. The Sociological Review 64 (1): 21-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12314.

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