„From smart speaker to smart home: The project investigates the domestication of data-intensive sensory media in interaction. It explores how 'intelligent' living environments digitally capture households in terms of language, motor skills and sensory perception.“
The SFB cordially invites you to the defense of Niklas Strüver’s doctoral thesis.
Monday, July 27, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. in Room AH-A 217/18.
During the defense, the findings of his dissertation will be presented to the examination committee and academically defended. The title of his dissertation is “Speaking on behalf of the periphery: Third-party relationships in Amazon’s Alexa ecosystem” and it examines the developmental dynamics of the voice assistant Alexa from the perspectives of infrastructure and platform theory. Drawing on the four articles presented, the dissertation explores how Alexa functions as an infrastructure and platform for third-party providers in business and academia, and what sociotechnical power imbalances arise in the process. This analysis allows for an examination of the social relationships that Amazon, as the manufacturer, enters into with complementary providers on the periphery of the platform. Through various empirical approaches, it is possible, despite the usual secrecy maintained by large corporations, to gain insight into the development of technologies that are present in the everyday lives of many people.
It will be conducted in German and supervised by the two examiners, Dagmar Hoffmann and Armin Beverungen.
Niklas Strüver (M.A.) ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Projekt B06 („Un/erbetene Beobachtung in Interaktion“) und Doktorand am SFB 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“. Er studierte Soziologie mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Techniksoziologie an der RWTH Aachen und schloss dort den Master of Arts ab. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen u.a. in den Bereichen Techniksoziologie, Science and Technology Studies sowie Platform Studies.
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).
Dissertation on linguistic practices with voice assistants from project B06 published
by Tim Hector (University of Siegen)
Tim Hector’s dissertation, which he wrote as part of his research work in project B06: “Un/solicited observation in interaction”, has been published as an open access publication in the “Empirical Linguistics” series by De Gruyter.
The dissertation “Smart Speakers in Dialogue. Linguistic Practices with Voice User Interfaces” examines voice assistants from a linguistic perspective. The focus is on smart speakers such as “Alexa” or “Google Home.” These devices are voice-controlled and provide, among other things, music or weather information. The study investigates how dialogue with these devices is linguistically organized, what practices emerge, and how the devices are integrated into everyday life.
The work combines theoretical discussions on praxeology and domestication with an empirical analysis of audio and video recordings. The corpus includes situations of initial installation and everyday use. For audio recordings in everyday life, a specially developed device was used that automatically captures voice commands (Conditional Voice Recorder, see our CRC-Working Paper No. 23). Methodologically, the dissertation follows a qualitative research design and draws on principles of conversation analysis.
The analyses show for dyadic dialogues (i.e., one person and one device), that address terms such as “Alexa” are newly functionalized and that the course of conversations must follow strict sequential patterns. Practices from other conversation-analytic categories—such as turn-taking or repair—remain visible but are technically reshaped. New practices also emerge, such as deliberate interruptions (barge-ins).
In multi-party situations, smart speakers are sometimes framed linguistically as participants, sometimes as objects. Particularly noteworthy is a “formal-functional split”: utterances that appear to be addressed to devices often serve other purposes—such as humor, frustration management, or the domestication of resistant technology.
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Saving energy, eating sustainable and healthy food, managing remote work and family reproduction, care and domestic work, concerns about non-transparency in data utilization and digital surveillance, about consumer and audience manipulation: Private households serve as key examples of the daily practice of meeting contemporary challenges. These are places, moreover, where digital media are perceived and negotiated both as adding to existing problems and as resources for overcoming them. The private household traditionally plays a central role in research on the domestication (Silverstone et al. 1992) of media.
Digital, networked media are increasingly finding their way into households. This represents a correspondingly increasing challenge to the domestication perspective. As already addressed in the second funding phase from a media linguistic and sociological perspective, this is exemplified by smart speakers and the highly selective utilization they typify: Although such media are also embedded in social interaction and everyday practice, those who wish to exploit the functional potential of voice-controlled assistance systems must also adapt to technologized dialog structures and platform logics; in the process, they are forced to divulge a lot of information about themselves – information that may take on new significance beyond the household in the form of data in exploitation contexts that are opaque to users and defy attempts to influence them.
Assistance systems potentially only come into their own as central interfaces to their fullest possible extent in smart home environments. At the same time, however, the household thereby opens itself up to the outside world far more than before: Whereas in the case of conventional smart speakers, our observation was limited to the perceptual dimension of hearing or listening, camera and monitor- and sensor-based systems and their networking with a variety of stationary and mobile devices and infrastructures result, in extreme cases, to a massive expansion of registrable data. Under certain circumstances, this trend is accompanied by a further attack on of the boundaries of the private sphere. This may be perceived as a violation on the one hand (e.g. in the case of surveillance technology being used to monitor members of a household), but may also be seen as desirable (e.g. from the perspective of security) on the other. An empirical question that remains is the extent to which households are open to such technologies and what consequences, if any, arise for them or can be exploited by them. It remains to be seen how the shift from potentially acoustic to a multimodal form of surveillance will be perceived, accounted for, and shaped by the users. Following on from technical-methodological innovations explored in the second phase, this phase will continue to investigate human-technology dialogs and their integration into social interaction. However, it will expand this area to include the reconstruction of sensory orientations and bodily practices (Mondada 2021) as well as the consideration of sensor-based mechanisms and their technical interfaces in smart homes.
It can be assumed that sensory environments not only change spatial arrangements and social coexistence on the communicative level, but that the entanglement of senses and technical sensoria also generates new modes of the co-articulation of data and practices (Marres 2015). Against this background, this study asks to what extent and how users (can) evaluate and take responsibility for their situated media and data practices with regard to the discursive imperatives referred to at the beginning.
On the one hand, we focus on the multimodal and perceptual dialog, including domestic environments, devices and infrastructures. On the other hand, we investigate the evaluation of digitalized household practices against the background of prevailing crisis discourses (e.g. energy saving). At the same time, we explore the (partially) opaque sensory processes of the socio-technical infrastructures - extended by camera, monitor and sensors. In this sense, the project examines both sides of the sensor and data-practical linking of households and platforms.
We visit the participants in our study over a longer period of time to make audiovisual recordings, photos and notes on various occasions. Media diaries support the recording of media practices in the household.
The analysis combines video interaction analysis with ethnographic procedures and digital methods. The videos are transcribed according to multimodal standards. We use digital methods to examine the software documentations and sensor interfaces of the smart home devices used in the households.
In the first half of 2024, we will set up the research design, establish field access and explore the platforms to be investigated. We will then carry out the extensive fieldwork using AV recordings and ethnography, including data collection for the platform analyses (2024–2026). The collected data will be continuously processed, analyzed in data sessions and the procedure will be compared and critically reflected upon in interdisciplinary methodology workshops. In addition to project reports and publications, participation in several public events and conferences is planned for the final year of the project (2027).
„Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse“
Voice Assistants such as Amazon's Alexa populate private homes as well as smartphones, TVs and cars. While suggesting easy living with smart devices, these assistants are criticized as the next step of corporate and state surveillance of the private home, or as harbingers of new and simplified linguistic practices. The contributors to this volume focus on the transformation and persistence of everyday linguistic, media and data practices under platformized conditions and new interfaces. This collection thus brings together perspectives from media sociology, media studies, media linguistics and domestication research.
Habscheid, Stephan, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, eds. 2025. Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN: 978-3-8394-7200-2.
2026
Hector, Tim, and Niklas Strüver. 2026. “Alltagstheorien zur technischen und ökonomischen Einbettung von Smart-Home-Technologien”. In Mediensozialisation in „smarten“ Umgebungen. Selbst- und Sozialwerdung im Kontext von Datafizierung und Automatisierung, edited by Laura Sūna and Wolfgang Reißmann. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-50216-4_14.
Hector, Tim, and Niklas Strüver. 2026. “Smart Homes in Everyday Life: The Domestication of Connected Media Technologies”. In Handbuch Soziale Praktiken und Digitale Alltagswelten, edited by Heidrun Freise, Marcus Nolden, and Miriam Schreiter, 2nd ed., 417-25. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44521-8_106.
Hoffmann, Dagmar. 2026. “Soziotechnische Praktiken in smarten Umgebungen. Subjektivierung im Wandel und unter Beobachtung”. In Mediensozialisation in „smarten“ Umgebungen. Selbst- und Sozialwerdung im Kontext von Datafizierung und Automatisierung, edited by Laura Sūna and Wolfgang Reißmann. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-50216-4_14.
2025
Habscheid, Stephan, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, eds. 2025. Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN: 9783839472002.
Habscheid, Stephan, Tim Hector, and Christine Hrncal. 2025. “Linguistic Practices as a Means of Domesticating Voice-Controlled Assistance Technologies”. In Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse, edited by Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, 207-39. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472002-008.
Habscheid, Stephan, Dagmar Hoffmann, Tim Hector, and David Waldecker. 2025. “Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Introduction to the Volume”. In Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse, edited by Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, 9-29. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472002-001.
Hector, Tim. 2025. Smart Speaker im Dialog. Sprachliche Praktiken mit Voice User Interfaces. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Brill. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111574332.
Hector, Tim. 2025. “Joint journeys: the linguistic domestication of smart speakers and their users in interaction”. AI & Society 40 (8): 6037-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02384-w.
Hector, Tim. 2025. “Sprachassistenzsysteme und ihre Interfaces. Eine medienlinguistische Analyse”. In Un/reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion, edited by Clara Kindler-Mathôt, Leblebici Didem, Giacomo Marinsalta, Till Rückwart, and Anna Zaglyadnova, 55-80. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839471463-005.
Hector, Tim, Niklas Strüver, Stephan Habscheid, and Dagmar Hoffmann. 2025. “Sensorische Praktiken im Smart Home. Erkenntnisse und methodische Reflexion einer interdisziplinären Pilotstudie”, Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation, 36: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10668.
Merkle, Benedikt, and Tim Hector. 2025. “Werkzeuge und Medienpraktiken. Intelligente persönliche Assistenten und das Paradigma objektorientierten Programmierens”. In Akustische Interfaces. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Schnittstellen von Technologien, Sounds und Menschen, edited by Christoph Borbach, Timo Kaerlein, Robert Stock, and Sabine Wirth, 75-93. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47635-9_4.
Strüver, Niklas. 2025. “Infrastructural platforms as producers of incremental innovation: Investigating software development in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Competition”. Platforms & Society 2: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2976862425139928.
Strüver, Niklas. 2025. “Innovating Alexa amid the Rise of Large Language Models. Sociotechnical Transitions in Algorithmic Development Practices”. In Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse, edited by Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, 365-402. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472002-014.
Waldecker, David, Alexander Martin, and Dagmar Hoffmann. 2025. “Mostly Harmless? Everyday Smart Speaker Use and Pragmatic Fatalism”. In Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse, edited by Stephan Habscheid, Tim Hector, Dagmar Hoffmann, and David Waldecker, 291-317. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839472002-011.
2024
Hector, Tim Moritz, and Christine Hrncal. 2024. “Sprachassistenzsysteme in der Interaktion”. In Sprache und digitale Kommunikation, edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Friedemann Vogel, 309-28. Handbücher Sprachwissen 23. Berlin u.a.: de Gruyter. ISBN: 9783110744101 .
2023
Habscheid, Stephan, Tim Hector, and Christine Hrncal. 2023. “Human and non-human agency as practical accomplishment: Interactional occasions for ascription and withdrawal of (graduated) agency in the use of smart-speaker-technology”. Edited by Samira Ibnelkaïd and Iuliia Avgustis. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. Special Issue: Situated agency in digitally artifacted social interactions 6 (1/2023). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v6i1.137378.
Hector, Tim, David Waldecker, Niklas Strüver, and Tanja Aal, eds. 2023. Thematic issue: „Taming Digital Practices – On the Domestication of Data-Driven Technologies“. Digital Culture & Society 9 (1/2023). ISBN: 978-3-8376-6357-0.
Strüver, Niklas. 2023. “Wieso eigentlich Alexa? Konzeptualisierung eines Sprachassistenten als Infrastruktur und Plattform im soziotechnischen Ökosystem Amazons”. kommunikation@gesellschaft 24: 1-33. https://doi.org/10.15460/kommges.2023.24.1.1194 .
Strüver, Niklas. 2023. “Introduction: Forms of Context in Digital Technologies”. In The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication, edited by Maren Hartmann, 329-30. London, New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Waldecker, David, and Tim Moritz Hector. 2023. “Taming digital practices: A praxeological approach towards domestication of connected devices and services. Introduction to the thematic issue”. Digital Culture & Society 9 (1/2023). https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0102.
Waldecker, David, Tim Moritz Hector, and Dagmar Hoffmann. 2023. “Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus”. Edited by Stephan O. Görland, Cindy Roitsch, and Andreas Hepp. Convergence. Special Issue: Agency in a Datafied Society 30 (3): 975-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231189584.
Waldecker, David, and Dagmar Hoffmann. 2023. “Inszenierung von kritischen Kompetenzen in Nischenöffentlichkeiten: Bewertungen von Smart Speakern auf YouTube”. kommunikation@gesellschaft 23 (1): 1-28. https://doi.org/10.15460/kommges.2022.23.1.1000.
Habscheid, Stephan. 2022. “Socio-technical dialogue and linguistic interaction. Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA) in the Private Home”. Sprache und Literatur 51 (2): 167-96. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890859-05002020.
Hector, Tim. 2022. “Smart Speaker in der Praxis: Methodologische Überlegungen zur medienlinguistischen Erforschung stationärer Sprachassistenzsysteme”. Sprache und Literatur 51 (2): 197-229. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890859-05002021.
Hector, Tim, Franziska Niersberger-Gueye, Franziska Petri, and Christine Hrncal. 2022. “The ‘Conditional Voice Recorder’: Data practices in the co-operative advancement and implementation of data-collection technology”. Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation 23: 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10225 .
Waldecker, David. 2022. “Zur empirischen und theoretischen Kritik der Datensouveränität anhand der Smart-Speaker-Nutzung”. merzWissenschaft 66 (6): 147-57.
Waldecker, David, and Axel Volmar. 2022. “Die zweifache akustische Intelligenz virtueller Sprachassistenten zwischen verteilter Kooperation und Datafizierung”. In Acoustic Intellingence. Hören und Gehorchen, edited by Anna Schürmer, Maximilian Haberer, and Tomy Brautschek, 161-82. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730791-011.
2021
Habscheid, Stephan, Tim Hector, Christine Hrncal, and David Waldecker. 2021. “Intelligente Persönliche Assistenten (IPA) mit Voice User Interfaces (VUI) als ‚Beteiligte‘ in häuslicher Alltagsinteraktion. Welchen Aufschluss geben die Protokolldaten der Assistenzsysteme?”. Journal für Medienlinguistik 4: 16-53. https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2021.44.
Waldecker, David, Oliver Schmidtke, and Kathrin Englert. 2020. “Individuierung, Autonomie und Social Media. Überlegungen zum Strukturwandel von Öffentlichkeit und Privatheit”. Sprache und Literatur 49 (1): 171-99. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890859-04901007.
2019
Englert, Kathrin, David Waldecker, and Oliver Schmidtke. 2019. “Un/erbetene Beobachtung: Bewertung richtigen Medienhandelns in Zeiten seiner Hyper-Beobachtbarkeit”. In Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. Für eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen, edited by Jonathan Kropf and Stephan Laser, 215-36. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21165-3_9.
Schmidtke, Oliver, Kathrin Englert, and David Waldecker. 2019. “Vom alltäglichen Ziehen fließender Grenzen. Die Veröffentlichung von Intimität bei jugendlichen Social-Media-Nutzer/innen”. In Intimisierung des Öffentlichen. Zur multiplen Privatisierung des Öffentlichen in der digitalen Ära, edited by Patrik Ettinger, Mark Eisenegger, Marlis Prinzing, and Roger Blum, 211-26. Mediensymposium. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24052-3_12.
Waldecker, David, Kathrin Englert, and Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer. 2019. “Media Ethnography and Participation in Online Practices”. Media in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media 3 (1): 9-22. https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/mia/article/view/47.
2018
Kathrin, Englert, Lene Faust, Christian Heinrich-Franke, Claudia Müller, and Cornelius Schubert (Hrsg.). 2018. “Thematic Focus: Socioinformatics”. Media in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media, Sonderheft, 2 (1). https://www001.zimt.uni-siegen.de/ojs/index.php/mia/issue/view/9.
2017
Englert, Kathrin, Jacqueline Klesse, Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Oliver Schmidtke, and David Waldecker. 2017. “‚Das Digitale‘ und sein Modus Operandi. Bewertungen (un)erbetener Be(ob)achtung”. In Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2016, edited by Stephan Lessenich. Bamberg: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie. http://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2016/article/view/524.
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