A03 - Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces
Visualization of the sensory recognition that takes place on board Waymo vehicles. (Source: Waymo)
Principal Investigators:
Researchers:
Fernando N. Van der Vlist, M.A.
Associate 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)
Forthcoming
Kanderske, Max. 2024. “Echtzeit-Geografien”. In Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis, edited by Tristan Thielmann and Max Kanderske. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Thielmann, Tristan, and Max Kanderske, eds. 2024. Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
2023
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.
2022
Borbach, Christoph, and Max Kanderske, eds. 2022. “Navigieren. Zugänge zu Medien und Praktiken der Raumdurchquerung”. Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18780.
Bender, Hendrik, and Max Kanderske. 2022. “Co-operative aerial images: A geomedia history of the view from above”. New Media & Society.
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. 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
Hind, Sam, Magdalena Götz, Danny Lämmerhirt, Hannah Neumann, Anastasia-Patricia Och, Sebastian Randerath, and Tatjana Seitz, eds. 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.
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 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, 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 20: July 23. 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.
Kanderske, Max. 2020. “Simultane Lokalisierung und Kartierung”. In Mediengeographie - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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”. Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series 9. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/wps1187/article/view/45.
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. 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.