„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.“
How is urban mobility being transformed by bike-sharing, e-scooters, and app-based mobility services? And who shapes the conditions under which shared micromobility operates in cities?
The workshop “Shared Micromobility – Who’s Taking Charge?” will address these questions on 17 and 18 September 2026 in Cologne. The event is organized by project A03 “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces”.
The programme for the two-day workshop is now available online.
The workshop focuses on the infrastructures, technologies, data flows, and actors that enable shared micromobility. It also explores how different people experience these mobility services and which perspectives, needs, and interests are made visible or remain overlooked.
The observations and discussions emerging from the workshop will be documented collaboratively with artists and designers and will contribute to a publicly accessible report on the “Seams” of shared mobility in Cologne and its points of connection, friction, disruption, and transition.
Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium (Media Geographies: Handbook für Research and Study)
by Tristan Thielmann (Universität Siegen, SFB) and Max Kanderske (SFB)
The field of media geography is situated at the intersection of media studies and human geography. The aim of this handbook is to trace the development of media geography and to provide a comprehensive overview of the current field of research—ranging from the geography of books to the geography of film and video games, and on to the geography of the Internet, smartphones, and AI.
The Internet of Things, Big Data, drone media, artificial intelligence, mobile GIS, and sensorized life: geodata are increasingly shaping our everyday lives and academic discourse. Published by Nomos, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current research questions emerging at the intersection of geography and media. On the one hand, it offers subject-oriented overview articles; on the other, it brings together programmatic contributions that have proven influential and forward-looking for the field. Contributors include Bruno Latour, Tim Ingold, Karen Caplan, Sarah Pink, Mark Andrejevic, James Ash, and Jessica McLean. An overview is provided in the introduction, which is available via academia.edu.
University members will soon have access to the digital edition of the handbook via inlibra.
About the authors
Tristan Thielmann is Professor of Science, Technology and Media Studies at the University of Siegen and Deputy Spokesperson of CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation.” He is also the principal investigator of the projects A03 – Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces and P04 – Precision Farming: Co-operative Practices of Virtual Fencing. His research focuses on media geographies, media and technology history, navigation studies, and cultural cartographies. His areas of interest also include ethnomethodologies and technomethodologies, as well as the study of media and technologies in spatial and social contexts.
Max Kanderske is a research associate in project A03 “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces” at the Siegen CRC “Media of Cooperation.” Beyond navigation studies, his research interests include sensor-mediated environments and digital game spaces. He is also co-editor of the Game Studies journal “Spiel|Formen.”
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).
How can the disrupted relationship between humans and the environment in the Anthropocene be understood epistemologically? In this working paper, Kevin Onland examines the epistemological foundations of human relations with the world in the Anthropocene from the perspective of media philosophy. The paper asks how media, as mediating instances in communication between human and non-human actors, structure approaches to the world, and to what extent anthropocentric patterns of thought are perpetuated in the process.
The starting point is the assumption of disrupted communication between humans and the environment, which stems not only from structural but also from epistemic problems. This paper analyzes how central ideals of an iconic-humanistic anthropocentrism are reflected in media representations of the world.
The focus is on an iconic NASA photograph of Earth: the Blue Marble. As a seemingly holistic view, it reinforces the notion of a detached, quasi-divine observer’s perspective and reproduces objectification, universalization, and the idea of human control as a normative image of “determinations (in) the world.” What becomes visible is a world as a closed object, not as a dynamic, conflict-ridden structure.
The article counters this with a reframing: Media are understood as relational, processual, and situationally embedded actors. Drawing on sympoietic approaches, this brings the co-productive interdependence of humans, non-human entities, and media mediations to the forefront. The result is a media epistemology that does not aim at totality, but rather at partiality, difference, and a mode of thinking in terms of networked world relations.
About the Author
Kevin Onland is a research associate in subproject A03, “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces”, of the SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation (University of Siegen). His research focuses on art-based media at the intersection with the discourse on the Anthropocene. He earned his bachelor’s degree in film studies and sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and his master’s degree in media and social sciences at the University of Siegen.
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.
Executive summary
The sub-project A03 “Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces” is dedicated to the media-theoretical question of how media and spaces are brought about cooperatively through navigational practices. In the third funding phase of the DFG-funded CRC “Media of Cooperation”, sub-project A03 examines decision-intensive, media-supported navigation situations in urban areas characterised by an infrastructure charged with and fuelled by sensor technology. In the literature on the “Internet of Things”, such modes of mobility are also described as context-sensitive micronavigation. Micronavigation is defined as a form of movement characterised by joint data, media and spatial practices, in which media and modes of transportation are used relatively briefly or changed frequently. The aim of sub-project A03 is to analyse and theoretically describe the cooperative production of data, media and spatial practices in micronavigation across online and offline spaces. Empirically the project focuses on researching two forms of navigation: 1) micronavigation with the help of augmented reality devices, and 2) micronavigation with e-bikes/scooters in urban areas. Using inventive methods, the project explores how both case studies aim at seamless transitions between online- and offline spaces, between means of mobility, devices and apps, but also the human and technical sensorium. A03 poses the question how sensor-intensive navigational media measure and calculate bodies, their movements and the surrounding environment, platformising urban space in the process. That is to say, these platforms generate data that feed into political mobility discourses and – ostensibly sustainable – urban infrastructure planning. Based on the analysis of micromotility with near-body media technologies and micromobility in specific neighbourhoods, the sub-project develops a joint spatial and media theory of micronavigation. Through its empirical case studies, A03 also specifies an understanding of sensor-intensive (platform) media as “environing media.”
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:
Defininging the relationship between media-supported motility and mobility practices in the context of urban navigation
Developing a media theory of micronavigation that focuses on seamlessness as a situated accomplishment and socio-technical imaginary
Expand the platform concept for "Environing Media".
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.
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:
Refine the qualitative understanding of data
Develop a praxeology of distributed immersion
Synthesise a sensory platform theory of micro-navigation
„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.
2026
Bender, Hendrik, and Max Kanderske. 2026. “Zur Plattformisierung der Drohnenkriegsführung im Russisch-Ukrainischen Krieg”. In „The Amazon for Drone Warfare“, 4-15. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation. Siegen: SFB 1187. doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10869.
Kanderske, Max. 2026. “Echtzeitgeographie: Praktiken und Diskurse des Live-Mapping”. In Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, by Tristan Thielmann and Max Kanderske, 403-27. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN: 978-3-8487-1353-0.
Kanderske, Max, and Tristan Thielmann. 2026. “Mediengeographie: Eine Einführung in das Handbuch”. In Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, by Max Kanderske and Tristan Thielmann, 13-36. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN: 978-3-8487-1353-0.
Onland, Kevin. 2026. “Medienepistemologie sympoietischer Weltbezüge. Zur Kritik eines ikonisch-humanistischen Anthropozentrismus”, Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation, 40. https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10918.
Thielmann, Tristan. 2026. “Mediengeographie: Die Entwicklung des Forschungsfelds”. In Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, by Tristan Thielmann and Max Kanderske, 37-53. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN: 978-3-8487-1353-0.
Thielmann, Tristan, and Max Kanderske. 2026. Mediengeographie: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos. ISBN: 978-3-8487-1353-0.
2025
Burkhardt, Marcus, Carsten Ochs, and Tatjana Seitz, eds. 2025. “Frictions: Conflicts, Controversies and Design Alternatives in Digital Valuation”. Digital Culture & Society 9 (2/2023). ISBN: 978-3-8376-6358-7.
2024
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56984-5_11.
Borbach, Christoph, and Max Kanderske. 2024. “Counter-practices: Understanding sensor datafication through subversive action”. Dialogues on Digital Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2976864024130597.
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, 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 24 (11): 2438-67.
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, 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.
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.
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, 3:123-46. 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.
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.
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, 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, 15:205-30. 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. #SMSociety17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097324.
Passmann, Johannes, and Carolin Gerlitz. 2017. “Popularisierung einer digitalen Medien-Praktik”. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 47 (3): 375-93. 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.
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. “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.
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.
