„By investigating sensory practices in digital childhoods, the project makes a fundamental contribution to understanding the cooperative constitution of the human and technical sensorium.“
The SFB cordially invites you to the oral examination in the doctoral examination proceedings of Hoa Mai Trần. The dissertation defense will take place on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in room AR-E 4112 (OASE Learning Workshop) at Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57068 Siegen, Germany.
During the defense, Hoa Mai Trần will present and academically defend the findings of her dissertation before the examination committee. The title of her dissertation is: “The Virtual Self in the In-Between: An Ethnographic Study of Childhood and Children’s Modes of Existence in Digital Play.”
Where does “the child” begin in digital play, and where does it end? Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with three families in Germany, Hoa Mai Trần examines children’s experiences while playing digital games. The educational science study explores how the boundaries between the “self” and the “not-self” shift during play. At its core is the research question: How is children’s hybrid being-in-the-world brought forth through digital play?
The central thesis of the dissertation is that children can be present and exist beyond the physical boundaries of their flesh-and-blood bodies. Between feeling, becoming, and dying, an in-between space unfolds within play, revealing children’s hybrid, living modes of existence. Children’s play becomes a meaningful, tangible, and dynamic (in-between) reality. The phenomena of boundary dissolution, mutually generated by the child and the game, enable temporary or reactivatable ways of unfolding the self and the world, depending on the particular play situation, and contribute to the emergence of the virtual self. The virtual self is not a digital representation of the child within the game, but rather the idea brought forth through play—one that can be digitally materialized and personalized to varying degrees, expressing the possibility of being or becoming something or someone. Digital games are inhabitable spaces of childhood that have individual, social, educational policy-related, and economic significance for children and society.
The dissertation project is part of Subproject B05: “(Early) Childhood and Smartphones.” The examination will be conducted in German and will be chaired by Prof. Dr. Jutta Wiesemann (first examiner), Prof. Dr. Jochen Lange (second examiner), and Prof. Dr. Chantal Munsch (member of the examination committee).
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1187) “Media of Cooperation” welcomes four new Mercator Fellows: Azadeh Ganjeh, Olga Goriunova, Maija Hirvonen, Christopher Salter and Jürgen Streeck. These outstanding researchers will bring their academic expertise and innovative research approaches to CRC 1187 this year.
About the Mercator Fellowship at CRC 1187
To strengthen academic collaboration within the research network, CRC 1187 awards Mercator Fellowships to outstanding researchers from Germany and abroad. Mercator Fellows conduct research for an extended period in close collaboration with one or more of the sub-projects involved in CRC 1187, addressing questions relating to digital, data-intensive media. Together with the regular members, our Mercator Fellows pursue the shared goal of further developing interdisciplinary approaches and helping to shape the CRC’s research programme. The inclusion of these renowned researchers not only strengthens the international network of CRC 1187, but also promotes the transfer of knowledge and ideas that is of central importance to the CRC’s research into the digital present.
The Mercator Fellowship is a module within the funding programmes of the German Research Foundation and serves to enable intensive and long-term research exchange.
Azadeh Ganjeh is a performance artist, scholar, dramaturg and activist, and a member of the collective Rebel-Ist-hah!. Born in Tehran, Iran, she holds a Master’s degree in theatre directing from Tehran Art University and received her doctorate in 2017 in philosophy with a focus on theatre studies from the University of Bern.
Azadeh specialises in socially engaged and site-specific performances, participatory productions, performative interventions in urban space, and community theatre for socio-political empowerment. Her research interests include narratives and politics of the stage, the performativity of public events, the performative interaction of body and space, emancipation through the performing arts, aesthetics of performativity and space, and activism in performance art.
After working as a professor at the University of Tehran, she taught at numerous European universities and has been working since April 2022 as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Media, Theatre and Popular Culture at the University of Hildesheim. In October 2024, she took up the professorship for Performative Arts in Society at the University of the Arts in Society in Ottersberg, where she combines artistic practice with critical research on performance and social change.
Olga Goriunova is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a cultural theorist, working across technology, philosophy and aesthetics. Her latest book, Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI (2025) explores how data and artificial intelligence abstract people into new kinds of subjects. The questions of subjectivation in relation to art and technology have been central to her work. Her previous book, Bleak Joys. Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (co-authored, 2019) explores aesthetics, ethics and ecology during times of multiple crises. This work traces connections between large scale systems such as ecologies, technical infrastructures or mechanisms of calculation and processes of subjectivation. Her first book Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet (2012) conceptualises aesthetic and political engagements with technology at the dawn of the World Wide Web, proposing the concepts of organisational aesthetics and art platforms to understand collective art practices and art movements of the 1990s and early 2000s. This book is based on her work as a co-organiser of software art repository Runme.org and a co-curator of software art festivals (four editions of the Readme festival between 2002 and 2005 in Moscow, Helsinki, Aarhus and Dortmund) and other exhibitions. She edited or co-edited four Readme publications, the most significant of which is Readme. Software Arts and Cultures (Aarhus University Press, 2004). She is also the editor of Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing (2014) and a co-founder and co-editor of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies.
Prof.‘in Dr. Maija Hirvonen
Professor for German language, culture and translation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences | Language Studies | German
Maija Hirvonen is a full professor in German language, culture and translation at the Languages Unit of the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences of Tampere University. She leads BA, MA and PhD studies in German linguistics and translation. She is director of Langnet, the Network of Doctoral Programmes in Language Sciences in Finland, and sits on the steering board for Plural (the multidisciplinary research centre for languages and cultures). She co-leads the Tampere Accessibility Unit and the Multimodality in Translation and Interpreting research group.
Her research specialisms include:
accessibility (esp. audio description)
multimodal and intermodal translation and interpreting
blind-sighted and other asymmetrical interaction
teamwork
distributed/interactive intelligence and the interface of cognition and interaction
Jürgen Streeck conducts research in the field of multimodal interaction, focusing in particular on the coordination of language, gesture and gaze, as well as the social meaning of actions in communication. He has contributed to the development of multimodal interaction research and engages with the connections between language, music and orality, particularly in hip-hop. His academic work has been recognised with several awards, including the Georg-Gottfried-Gervinus Fellowship (2013–2014). He was a Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld.
Streeck received his doctorate in 1981 from the Free University of Berlin in linguistics and has been Professor of Communication Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin since 2013. Previously he was Associate Professor in the same department and also held a professorship in linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. In addition, he has held visiting professorships and fellowships at universities including the University of Oldenburg, the University of Vienna and the University of Utrecht.
Among his major publications is the 2009 book Gesturecraft: The Manu-facture of Meaning, in which Streeck examines how hand gestures in communication represent and interpret the world, drawing on microethnographic research and theories of cognition and interaction. In the 2017 volume Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language, Jürgen Streeck analyses how a car mechanic in Texas constructs his social world and identity through gestures, language and actions in communication.
Prof. Dr. Christopher Salter
University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses
Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses, Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Art, Design, Digital Culture and Technology, Director of Hexagram Concordia and Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts,Culture and Technology.
Salter studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and received his Ph.D. in theater directing and dramatic theory/criticism at Stanford University where he also worked and researched at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). At Stanford, Salter studied with former Brecht assistant Carl Weber as well as pioneers of digital synthesis John Chowning, Max Matthews and Chris Chafe. In the 1990s, he collaborated with theater director Peter Sellars and choreographer William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballet. He was visiting professor in music, graduate studies and digital media at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) before joining Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 2005. He was also Guest Professor at the KhM in Cologne in 2010 and is continuing Guest Faculty at the Masters program in Media Arts History, Institute für Bildwissenschaften,Donau University, Krems, Austria.
Salter’s large scale installations, performative environments and research focuses on and challenges human perception, merging haptic, visual, acoustic and other sensory phenomena. Exploring the borders between the senses, art, design and new technologies, his immersive and physically experiential works are informed by theater, architecture, visual art, computer music, perceptual psychology, cultural theory and engineering and are developed in collaboration with anthropologists, historians, philosophers, engineers,artists and designers.
His work has been shown at major international exhibitions and festivals in over a dozen countries including the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montréal),National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Lille 3000 (Lille), Chronus Art Centre (Shanghai), Fondarie Darling (International Biennale of Electronics Arts – Montreal),HAU3 (Berlin), Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industriel (Gijon, Spain),Nuit Blanche (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), EXIT Festival (Maison des Arts, Creteil-Paris), STRP Biennale (Eindhoven), Ars Electronica (Linz), Pact Zollverein (Essen, Germany), CTM (Berlin), Villette Numerique (Paris),TodaysArt (the Hague), Todays Art.jp (Tokyo), Meta.Morf (Norway), MoisMulti(Quebec), Transmediale (Berlin), Place des Arts (Montréal), Elektra(Montréal),the Banff Center (Banff), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), V2(Rotterdam), SIGGRAPH 2001 (New Orleans), Mediaterra (Athens) and the Exploratorium (SanFrancisco), among others.
Salter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, has given over 100 invited talks at universities and festivals worldwide and has sat on many juries including the Prix Ars Electronica among others. In addition to his artistic work, he is the author of the seminal book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (MIT Press, 2010) and Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (MIT Press, 2015).
On the praxeological contouring of semantic fields by the example of a camera-ethnographic research tool
By Bina Elisabeth Mohn (Universität Siegen, SFB)
In the latest working paper (No. 38) on the Bundle Explorer: Touching, Bina Elisabeth Mohn presents the development and testing of a prototype for a praxeological research platform. The focus is on questions concerning the linguistic analysis of practices, their bundle-theoretical positioning, and the relationship between a flat ontology and Wittgenstein’s concept of grammatical observation.
The Bundle Explorer: Touch is the prototype of a praxeological research platform for studying situated practices. Its conceptualization draws upon Wittgenstein’s work and his method of grammatical investigation. With its pool of diverse filmic ‘prepared specimens’ from the research project Early Childhood and Smartphone, the tool facilitates a comparative, probing, and contouring procedure that opens up new perspectives on touch practices in digital everyday life. This working paper recounts the context and process of the Bundle Explorer’s development, and outlines how to work with it. Considering grammatical investigation (Wittgenstein), praxeological bundle theory (drawing on Schatzki), and camera ethnography alongside one another, the paper develops methodological proposals for ways to address the following questions: How can a language-game analysis be deployed to study nonverbal practices, and how can bundle theory serve to discern how practices are situated? How can we bring Schatzki’s flat ontology together with Wittgensteinian thought, and to what extent can Wittgenstein’s übersichtliche Darstellung be seen as an experimental field that transcends medial and cultural boundaries? How could presentational grammar work? In this paper, the term ‘touch’ stands as a proxy for changing semantic fields in changing lifeworlds.
About the author
Bina Elisabeth Mohn (Ph.D., Berlin) is a cultural anthropologist and founder of camera ethnography, a cinematic research approach that aims to make epistemic things visible. Her work focuses on nonverbal practices and (media) ethnographic methodology. As a researcher, she has been involved in the SFB Media of Cooperation from 2016 to 2023. In 2023, her book Camera Ethnography: Ethnographic Research in the Mode of Showing: Programmatics and Practice was published. Bina Elisabeth Mohn was a project team member for Project B05 until the end of 2023.
About the Working Paper Series
The Working Paper Series of SFB 1187 “Media of Cooperation” brings together current contributions from the field of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary media research. The SFB Working Paper Series offers the opportunity for pre-publication and rapid dissemination of research work currently being carried out at the SFB or related to it. The aim of the series is to make SFB research accessible to a broader research community. Publication in the Working Paper Series does not preclude the publication of revised versions of the same contribution in other journals. Contributions from postdocs and established researchers are welcome. The series is intended as a publication forum for the researchers represented in the SFB, their projects, and their ongoing research. Contributions are published in open access and in a limited print edition. If you would like to publish an article in the Working Paper Series, please submit your topic proposal in the form of an abstract (max. 300 words) together with a short CV (max. 50 words). For manuscript submission, please refer to our styleguide.
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – Project number 262513311 – SFB 1187. Editorial responsibility: Karina Kirsten, University of Siegen & SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation.
Exploring the new multimedia research tool “Bundle Explorer: Berühren”
with Bina E. Mohn (Center for Camera Ethnography, Berlin) and Astrid Vogelpohl (University of Siegen)
Last December, the CRC researchers from project B05 presented their self-developed new research platform, the “Bundle Explorer”, to the research community. During a one-day workshop, they discussed how to use this tool and tested new exploration paths and ways of thinking. With the Bundle Explorer, the researchers are making an important contribution to the development of practice-theoretical methods at the CRC.
About the research platform Bundle Explorer
The Bundle Explorer is a multimedia research platform developed by Bina E. Mohn, Astrid Vogelpohl and Pip Hare. With this research tool, the team aims to contribute to the understanding of situated sensory practices in digitized everyday worlds.
The researchers developed the platform as part of their camera ethnographic research on sensory practices in digital childhood. Their methodology was based on Ludwig Wittgenstein and his language game approach. With the Bundle Explorer, short films can be played back and the sensory practices they reveal can be examined more closely. The name Bundle Explorer refers to Theo Schatzki’s theory (2016) that human action and sensory practices and the environments in which they take place form bundles. As suggested by Schatzki, the Bundle Explorer can be used to examine these bundles more closely and understand them better.
The “Bundle Explorer: Berühren” presented in the Blicklabor “Berührung” is the prototype of the new research tool. With this prototype, we researchers can discover and explore situations and ways of touching in digital childhood in a variety of ways.
The “Bundle Explorer: Berühren” is based on 60 short films from six years of camera-ethnographic research observations on the everyday family life of young children. The films were ‘edited’ from many hours of video material and show in particular moments of touch. In the Bundle Explorer, these films are divided into six categories of touch, which reflect the diversity of forms of touch in young children’s everyday digital lives:
These categories allow Bundle Explorer users to explore the films in their own way.
About the Blicklabor „Berührung“
For the camera ethnography, Blicklabore refers to encounters , „Blicke als Blicke zu reflektieren und in konkreten Forschungszusammenhängen damit zu experimentieren“ (Mohn 2023, S. 198).
The B05 project team invited the Wittgenstein expert Birgit Griesecke, the science sociologist Klaus Amann and the educational scientist Jochen Lange to the Blicklabor alongside an interested specialist audience. The Blicklabor took place on December 13 at the University of Siegen (→ to the event) and offered the opportunity to get to know the „Bundle Explorer: Berührung“ in more detail and try it out in a workshop phase. While exploring the Bundle Explorer, the participants were encouraged to watch the films, track down, compare and classify children’s sensory practices and examine classifications, variants and borderline cases. The participants then discussed their individual explorations and impressions.
About the „Bundle Explorer: Berühren“ using the example of the category „acoustic touch“
The category “acoustic touch” is one of six touch categories that are explored in the “Bundle Explorer: Berühren” video material. The acoustic aspect of touch plays a special role in the films in the acoustic touch category. When selecting and compiling the films, researchers were interested in how acoustic touch can be applied and contoured.
Image 1: Bundle-Explorer Starting tableau
Image 2: Bundle Explorer Start movies
Image 3: Bundle Explorer Practice bundle
Image 4: Bundle Explorer Variations
Image 5: Bundle Explorer Boundary case
Users end up in this category rather by chance: After selecting a video in the start tableau (image 1), the tool offers them a compilation of two film scenes (image 2) that are not yet named according to any category: In the first video, a 2-year-old child listens to music with an MP3 player; in the second video, a toddler explores a smartphone and is surprised by the ringtone melody. Descriptive approaches are used to identify bundles of practices and their material arrangements (Fig. 3) and the question arises as to what these films have in common.
The Bundle Explorer then invites users to explore further “variations” (image 4) and “borderline cases” (image 5) of acoustic touches. The variants include videos in which one child makes a squeaking noise with a balloon, another makes his voice vibrate and another sings with his grandmother on his cell phone (image 4). As borderline cases, the Bundle Explorer offers videos in which touching is not clearly recognizable. For example, in the video in which the adult acts acoustically but the child does not react (image 5).
All these cases serve to better understand acoustic touch in children. The researchers are particularly interested in how children are touched by the respective sounds. Based on the videos, the researchers identified three types of acoustic touch in which touching and being touched is shown through:
Music, movement and dance
Voices, conversation and singing
Noise, experiment and improvisation
However, the video material in the Bundle Explorer not only invites you to explore the questions of how acoustic touch manifests itself in children and what triggers it. The videos also invite us to imagine other forms of touch that have not yet been filmed.
About the expert contributions
The invited experts emphasized the innovative content of the research platform, which allows new approaches to sensory experiences and enables an in-depth examination of research questions relating to human sensory and action practices.
The Bundle Explorer is an important tool for praxeological research, allowing non-verbal gestures and actions to be examined from a visual perspective. With the Blicklabor, the research team has also created a convincing event format that allows a critical examination of non-verbal sensory practices and brings researching gazes and gaze differences to bear.
Similar to an Alpenföhn, as Birgit Griesecke emphasized, the Bundle Explorer brings spectacular distant views closer for a limited period of time. However, the perceptible proximity – in her comparison of the mountains – also brings with it euphoria, headaches and dizziness (after the mountains). In her opinion, it is crucial in research on sensory practices to keep the experiences present in such a way that they can be integrated into the research. For further development, she suggests including touch in research beyond everyday digital family life. This would bring the relationship between touch and digitality into focus in even greater detail.
Jochen Lange compared the Bundle Explorer to a ‘Findemaschine’ or a ‘Findespiel’, that moves between publication and research tool. For him, the function and meaning of touch represent alternative approaches with which sensory practices can be further explored with the help of the Bundle Explorer.
For Klaus Amann, the Bundle Explorer has an experimental character that opens up reflective moments and allows new insights. According to him, touch should also be questioned critically under the conditions of the digital world.
Together with the participants, the experts made numerous suggestions for advancing research into digital sensory practices and further work on the Bundle Explorer. Their suggestions included looking at sensory practices in the context of “atmospheres”, including visual touch, taking resonance into account when analyzing touch and not seeing touching and being touched as necessarily related characteristics of touch.
The B05 research team would like to thank all participants for the critical and inspiring exchange!
The link to the “Bundle Explorer: Berühren” as well as the template for creating your own Bundle Explorer (de/en) are available on request from Astrid Vogelpohl.
References
Bina E. Mohn (2023): Kamera-Ethnographie – Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Transcript.
Theodore R. Schatzki (2016): Praxistheorie als flache Ontologie. In: Praxistheorie. Ein soziologisches Forschungsprogramm. Transcript, S. 29-44.
Birgit Griesecke & Werner Kogge (2022): Mit Wittgenstein arbeiten. Ein Methoden Manual, Working Paper Series Collaborative Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation, No. 24.
Astrid Vogelpohl is a researcher and conducts camera-ethnographic research on subjectivation practices in everyday digital family life.
Bina E. Mohn was a researcher in B05 until the end of 2023. She researches reflexive ethnography, visual anthropology and media. She is an expert for camera ethnography: kamera-ethnographie.de
Executive Summary
Media practices unfold the ways of the world becoming experienceable and understandable in digital childhoods. They also link everyday family life to social processes of digitalization. This is the overall conclusion of the first two phases of our study of mediatized forms of everyday family interactions with children from 0 to 6 years. As the possibilities of media-based interaction become more and more a comprehensive, unquestioned part of everyday existence, a paradox arises: The “accents of reality” (Schütz 1971) are shifting between digital media-based and co-present interaction. While the first funding phase investigated smartphones in early childhood as a cooperatively created condition of cooperation in everyday family life, the second funding phase focused on learning practices that unfold in situations involving adults, children, and digital media. Observations and analyses of the production and evaluation of family films, selfies, and photos have outlined virtual worlds as everyday familial places and the smartphone as a repository of memory data. It shows how media practices expand and change the familial biographical context of experience. Using video interactions as an example, the project shows how new forms of being-in-contact emerge without touching things and bodies. The boundaries of digital and analog, of touching and being touched, shift and transform the everyday life of children. This insight is reflected in our publication and exhibition “Reinventing Touch”, a laboratory of gazes, in which touch in digital spaces is presented in an (audio)visual arrangement as a set of innovative and cooperative sensory practices.
Taking up this thread, the project will further analyze the sensory and sensorial practices in the third funding phase. The main interest focusses on the cooperative constitution of the human and technical sensorium in the context of familial and everyday interaction with digital media. The project continues the long-term camera ethnographic study on digital media practices in early childhood with a research concentration on sensory practices. The leading questions are firstly, how sensory practices that are physically and bodily analog relate to digital ones. Secondly, it asks how these digital and analog “ways of worldmaking” (cf. Ways of Worldmaking, Goodman 1978) interact and produce new forms of sensory experience. For this purpose, the subproject conducts circular and contrastive field research phases in informal (family, peers) and formal (educational institutions) settings, researching in families and building up access to schools and kindergartens. Based on the observation of temporary boundary shifts between both analog and digital and living and non-living actors in the media practices of young children, digital (educational) games will also play a central role in the planned observations. The project continues to develop our experimental arranging style of research on audiovisual materials in order to test new ways of investigating practices from the perspective of observation. In this way, the project opens up an innovative methodological approach to situatedness as a dense context of action consisting of mutually reciprocal interacting (sensory) practices.
The project focuses on the question of the co-operative nature of the human and technical sensorium in the context of family and everyday interaction between children and digital media.
The research focus on sensory practices asks how these practices manifest themselves in their analog-digital interweaving and everyday life, for example when playing on a smartphone, watching family videos on a tablet (Fig. 1) or saying goodbye to grandma in a video call with a long-distance kiss (Fig. 2).
Camera ethnography enables systematic access to digital-analog, sensual and sensory phenomena. It is the centre of the methodological approach and expands participatory ethnographic research with a research-reflexive concept of cooperation that combines cooperation and (inter-)disciplinary positioning.
Different visual research formats that refer to the situatedness of practices and enable arranging research material are being explored in the project. For example, the research tool Wordless Language Game, an interactive video archive sorted according to practices and media (Fig. 3), was developed as well as an interactive, non-linear film project that was created through using the video authoring software Korsakow (Fig. 4).
Furthermore, the increasing age of the children suggests a multi-method approach that also includes interviews, drawings or explorations of digital environments, which takes greater account of the experiences of children as experts on the reality of their lives in the research methods.
Since 2016 the long-term study has been investigating how children (aged 3-10) in families create 'analog-digital' worlds as natural 'hybrids'. This can be observed in everyday situations such as when falling asleep (Fig. 5) and in the digitally mediated perception of the world (Fig. 6).
Starting 2024, the project will open up for kindergartens, schools and extracurricular facilities as new research locations.
The results of the 12-year long-term study will be published in a multimedia publication and presented at a final exhibition with video installations.
Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen
Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes
What happens to touch when we come together digitally? This publication brings together diverse perspectives and approaches to interrogate the widespread contention that increasing digitalisation in childhood leads to tactile deprivation. The authors describe sensory practices in early childhood as media practices in which skin and screens, eyes and ears interact synergistically to bring forth sensorial events. The publication is built around 10 short films featuring touch. The combination of texts and films explores interrelationships between embodiment, materiality, and virtuality in digital childhoods. (c) LIT Verlag Berlin-Münster-Wien-Zürich-London.
Forthcoming
Streeck, Jürgen, Astrid Vogelpohl, and Jutta Wiesemann. n.d. “Medienpraktiken des Animierens.”
Vogelpohl, Astrid. n.d. “Animal-like creatures and children in digital play – a certain kind of relationship”. Machine Body Space’ special issue SAGE series ‘New Media and Society’.
Vogelpohl, Astrid. n.d. “Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods”. In Touching and Being Touched. Interactions at the Boundary of Other and Self, by Jürgen Streeck und Julia Katila. Oxford University Press.
2026
Amann, Klaus, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2026. “Berührung, Körper und smarte Geräte in digitalen Kindheiten”. In Kindheit als Praxis. Kulturanalytische Zugänge zur alltäglichen Herstellung von Kindheit(en), by Sabine Bollig, Marion Ott, and Friederike und Tervooren Schmidt, 16-38. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2026. “Zur praxeologischen Konturierung semantischer Felder am Beispiel eines kamera-ethnographischen Forschungstools”. In Prototyp „Bundle Explorer: Berühren“. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 38. https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10854.
Vogelpohl, Astrid. 2026. “Aufwachsen im digitalen Zeitalter: Kamera-ethnographische Beobachtungen zu Subjektivierungspraktiken junger Kinder”. In , 186. transcript Verlag. ISBN: 978-3-8376-8122-2.
Vogelpohl, Astrid, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2026. “Die eigene Biographie entwerfen – „Doing Biography“ in digitalen Kindheiten. Mediale Praktiken biographischer Konstruktionen in familialen Alltagswelten kamera-ethnographisch erforschen”. In ZQF – Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung Jg. 27, 2026-1, 104-23. https://doi.org/10.3224/zqf.v27i1.08 .
2023
Hare, Pip. 2023. “Feeling touched while doing camera ethnographic research”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., edited by Bina Elisabeth Mohn, Jutta Wiesemann, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl, 215-25. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Hare, Pip. 2023. “Sich berührt fühlen beim kamera-ethnographischen Forschen”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., 97-107. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2023. “Touch in view”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., edited by Bina Elisabeth Mohn, Jutta Wiesemann, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2023. “Berührung im Blick”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., 17-26. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth, Jutta Wiesemann, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl, eds. 2023. Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen| Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes.. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Vogelpohl, Astrid. 2023. “This is me. Getting in touch with oneself and time with media”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., edited by Bina Elisabeth Mohn, Jutta Wiesemann, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Vogelpohl, Astrid, and Hoa Mai Trần. 2023. “Das bin ich. Medial vermittelt in Berührung mit sich und der Zeit treten”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., 79-87. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Wiesemann, Jutta. 2023. “Reinventing touch. Introductory remarks”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., edited by Bina Elisabeth Mohn, Jutta Wiesemann, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
Wiesemann, Jutta. 2023. “Berührung als kooperative Praxis”. In Berührung neu erfinden. Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten. Ein Blicklabor an 10 kamera-ethnographischen Szenen | Reinventing Touch. Sensory Practices in Digital Childhoods. Diverse perspectives encounter 10 camera ethnographic scenes., 9-16. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
2022
Bennewitz, H. & Wiesemann. 2022. “Das Runde kommt in das Eckige?! Zur Körperlichkeit von Sitzkreisen und Video-Meetings”. In Teilhabe und Ausschluss von Kindern in der Gesellschaft. Perspektiven der Kindheitsforschung, Grundschulpädagogik und Lehrer:innenbildung, edited by I. Naumann & J. Storck-Odabasi, 138-50. Weinheim und Basel: Beltz Juventa. ISBN: 978-3-7799-6742-2.
Griesecke, Birgit, and Werner Kogge. 2022. “Mit Wittgenstein Arbeiten: Ein Methoden Manual”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 24.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2022. “Camera Ethnography. Learning to see something ‘as something’ and maybe ‘as something else’ as well”. In Camera Work in Trading Zones. An Epistemological Journey Between Art and Ethnography, edited by Jürgen Krusche and Barbara Preisig, 34-49. Zürich: Institute for Contemporary Art Research IFCAR, Zürich University of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5734214.
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2022. “Zeigende Ethnographie – Kamera-Ethnographie”. In Handbuch soziologische Ethnographie, edited by Angelika Poferl and Norbert Schröer, 575-91. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26405-5_37.
Wiesemann, Jutta. 2022. “Rezension: Handbuch von Rita Braches-Chyrek, Charlotte Röhner, Jo Moran Ellis und Heinz Sünker (2022) Kindheit, Technik und das Digitale”. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation 2: 201-6. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZSE2202201.
2021
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth. 2021. “Kamera-Ethnographie. Schauen, Sehen und Wissen filmisch gestalten”. In Handbuch Filmsoziologie, edited by Alexander Geimer, Carsten Heinze, and Rainer Winter, 591-611. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10947-9_69-2.
Wiesemann, Jutta. 2021. “Medienpraktiken der frühen Kindheit. Der familiäre Alltag des Smartphones”. ZSE Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, 2021. 10.3262/ZSE2103264.
2020
Eisenmann, Clemens. 2020. “Technosoziale Intimität. Videotelefonie im familiären Alltag mit Kindern”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Elisabeth Mohn. Media of Cooperation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_5 .
Flügel, Alexandra, Detlef Pech, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2020. “ Kinder am außerschulischen Lernort”. In Orte und Räume der Generationenvermittlung. Zur Praxis außerschulischen Lernens von Kindern., edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Alexandra Flügel, Swanntje Brill, and Irina Landrock. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
Hare, Pip. 2020. “Bilder hier und dort. Affektive und ethische Dimensionen meiner Forschung mit Kindern und Kameras”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, and Jochen und Mohn Lange. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_5 .
Inka, Fürtig. 2020. “Doing media while doing family. Die Ordnung medialer Praktiken im Familienalltag”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Elisabeth Mohn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_7.
Lange, Jochen. 2020. “Die Materialisierung des „Kindlichen“? Zu den Entwicklungspraktiken in der Bildungswirtschaft”. In Materialitäten der Kindheit. Körper, Räume, Dinge, edited by Sabine Bollig, Lars Alberth, and Larissa Schindler. Vol. 20. Kinder, Kindheiten, Kindheitsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25532-9_9 .
Lange, Jochen. 2020. “Die Aufladung der Dinge. Eine digitale Analogie”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Elisabeth Mohn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_3 .
Mohn, Bina E. 2020. “Unterscheiden, verbinden und teilen. Zur Resonanz und Differenz (digitaler) Medienpraktiken in der frühen Kindheit und beim Forschen”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Elisabeth Mohn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_9.
Vogelpohl, Astrid. 2020. “„Willst du mit gucken?“ Intervenieren, arrangieren, etwas sichtbar machen”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Elisabeth Mohn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_5.
Wiesemann, Jutta, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Mohn. 2020. “Digitale Kindheiten. Kinder – Familien – Medien”. In Digitale Kindheiten, edited by Jutta Wiesemann, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Mohn, 1-16. Wiesbaden: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6_1.
Wiesemann, Jutta, Clemens Eisenmann, Inka Fürtig, Jochen Lange, and Bina Mohn, eds. 2020. Digitale Kindheiten. Media of Cooperation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31725-6.
Wiesemann, Jutta, Alexandra Flügel, Swanntje Brill, and Irina Landrock. 2020. Orte und Räume der Generationenvermittlung. Zur Praxis außerschulischen Lernens von Kindern.. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
2019
Eisenmann, Clemens, Jan Peter, and Erik Wittbusch. 2019. “Ethnomethodological Media Ethnography: Exploring Everyday Digital Practices in Families with Young Children”. Media in Action: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media, 2019. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/mia/article/view/50.
Mohn, Bina, Pip Hare, Astrid Vogelpohl, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2019. “Cooperation and Difference. Camera Ethnography in the Research Project ’Early Childhood and Smartphone’”. Media in Action: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media, 2019. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/mia/article/view/51.
Mohn, Bina, Pip Hare, Astrid Vogelpohl, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2019. Face to Face – Face to Screen. Frühe Kindheit und Medien / Early Childhood and Media. 24 kamera-ethnographische Miniaturen / 24 camera ethnographic miniatures. Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT.
2018
Mohn, Bina Elisabeth, Pip Hare, Astrid Vogelpohl, and Jutta Wiesemann. 2018. “„Das bist Du!“ Frühe Kindheit digital”. Ausstellung. Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen.
Wiesemann, Jutta, and Klaus Amann. 2018. “Co-operation is a feature of sociality, not an attribute of people”. Media in Action: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media 1 (3): 203-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8288.
Wiesemann, Jutta, and Inka Fürtig. 2018. “Kindheit zwischen Smartphone und pädagogischem Schulalltag”. In Institutionalisierungen von Kindheit. Childhood studies zwischen Soziologie und Erziehungswissenschaft., edited by Tanja Betz et. al., 196-212. „Kindheiten – Neue Folge“. Weinheim/München: Beltz Juventa.
2017
Fürtig, Inka, and Tanja Betz. 2017. “Bericht über die gemeinsame Jahrestagung „Materialitäten der Kindheit: Körper – Räume – Dinge“ der DGS-Sektionen Soziologie der Kindheit und Soziologie des Körpers und des Sports”. In , 47:220-23. 2. Trier: Universität Trier.
2016
Lange, Jochen. 2016. “Medienkompetenzvermittlung in der Grundschule”. In Mediales Lernen. Beispiele für eine inklusive Mediendidaktik, edited by Markus Peschel, 7:105-14. Dimensionen des Sachunterrichts – Kinder. Sachen. Welten. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.
2015
Wiesemann, Jutta. 2015. “Lernen ist eine soziale praktische Tätigkeit von Kindern”. In Lernprozessbegleitung und adaptive Lerngelegenheiten im Unterricht der Grundschule, edited by K. Liebers, B. Landwehr, A. Marquardt, and K. Schlotter, 33-46. 1. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11346-9_3.
Wiesemann, Jutta, and Jochen Lange. 2015. “Schülerhandeln und die Dinge des Lernens. Zum Verhältnis von Sinn und Objektgebrauch”. In Bildungspraktiken. Körper – Räume – Artefakte, edited by H. Kalthoff, T. Alkemeyer, and M. Rieger-Ladich, 261-82. Weilerswist: Velbrück. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845277349-261.
