Panel „Digital Micro-Geography“ at Geomedia 2023

Tristan Thielmann, Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske will be joined by our fellow AG Mediengeographien member Helena Atteneder for a joint thematic panel at the Geomedia 2023 conference in Tampere, Finland.

The panel discusses micro-navigation and micro-geographies from the perspective of specific media landscapes, like the environments formatted by early proximity sensors (Borbach), the media and mobility landscapes traversed by urban commuters (Atteneder), the interactive micro-terrains experienced through smart glasses (Thielmann) and the simulated environments of immersive navigation apps (Kanderske).

The mobile place: A digital investigation

Keynote by Tristan Thielmann, Geomedia International Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 7-10 May 2019

Today, the quiddity of what can be called a „digital place“ is interpreted by distributed software applications. This locational and situational understanding arises from how smart devices, above all smartphones, see the world based on their sensory perception. It corresponds to the classical understanding of place that was already described in 1977 by the influential geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan, who argued, “place is pause; each pause in movement makes it possible for location to be transformed into place.“ According to this, space allows movement, while meaning is given to places by resting, stopping and movement dropping off. This kind of understanding of place has become the focus of geomedia studies through the observation and description of mobile digital media practices, with the help of Augmented Reality, among other aids.

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different eyes: a drone art exhibition

18. – 30. September 2018

Die Ausstellung »different eyes | a drone art exhibition« thematisiert die spezielle Verbindung von Drohnen und Kunst. Zwischen Intimität, Konsumkritik und Science Fiction zeigt die Ausstellung, wie Künstler und Künstlerinnen Drohnen adaptieren, modulieren und transformieren. Die zehn internationalen und nationalen Künstlerpositionen erzeugen Gegenerzählungen, Momente des Widerstands und alternative Bildwelten.

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Media in the Wild

Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen, 25-26 September 2018

We are currently faced with a new generation of media: ‘sensor media’ are taking control across a broad spectrum of our society and societal discourses. The promise of a more general ‘digital sensibility’ is associated with smart environments, social robots, augmented reality, 4D printing, and tactile-visual intersensoriality. As a result, black boxes break and are torn asunder and anthropometric scaling parameters of the media and social sciences come into play. Since Ed Hutchins famous book ‘Cognition in the Wild’, distributed agency is expanding and is no longer limited to human activity. Media also adapt themselves to their natural surroundings under digital conditions. However, there is a big chasm between the ambition of media studies to explain the sensitivities of a digital culture and the scientific practices of everyday digital life.

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Digitale Gesellschaft: Förderperspektiven und Möglichkeiten der Kooperation

Vernetzungs- und Info-Workshop im Rahmen des Programms „Digitaler Fortschritt.NRW“, der Förderlinie des MIWF NRW

28.03.2017, 10.30 – 14.30 Uhr, Universität Bonn, Institut für Medienwissenschaften, Lennéstraße 6

Die massiven Veränderungen in vielen politischen, kulturellen und sozialen Feldern gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung durch die Digitalisierung sind für die Geistes,- Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften gleichermaßen wie für Technikwissenschaften und gesellschaftliche Anwender eine große Herausforderung. Mit der Digitalisierung sind vielfältige neue Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe, Mobilisierung und Kommunikation auch in Bezug auf die Perspektiven einer demokratischen Gesellschaft verbunden.
Diese Themenstellung hat das MIWF NRW mit der neuen Förderlinie „Digitale Gesellschaft“ im Rahmen des Programms „Digitaler Fortschritt NRW“ in den Fokus genommen.

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Mobile Interface Methods: Towards an App Analytics

Workshop of the Collaborative Research Center „Media of Cooperation“ and the Research Training Group „Locating Media“

10-11 November 2016, University of Siegen, Artur-Woll-Haus, AE-B 107

Digital and mobile media not only participate in social and cultural life, but also take on lively, productive, and performative qualities when they become part of digital and social research practices and methodologies.
The central aim of this workshop is to explore the specific challenges that mobile and dynamic digital media environments pose to interface methods.

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Kritische Praktiken: Medien der Account(dis)ability

Panel auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin

Donnerstag 29. September 2016, 9 bis 11 Uhr

In und über Medien kritisch zu reflektieren, kann Medientheorie nicht davon erlösen, zu wissen und zu prüfen, was Medien überhaupt sind und wie sie soziale Praktiken gestalten. Für die selbstkritische Einsicht in die eigenen Grundlagen und die Folgen von vermeintlich selbstverständlichen Grundbegriffen stellt das Panel eine ethnomethodologische Medientheorie zur Diskussion.

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Displaying Displays: A Praxeological Analysis of Computer Screens

Workshop »Screen Operations«
Berlin, 13-14 July 2016
Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik

This paper argues that digital computing is sustainably organized by the agency of visual displays. A praxeological analysis based on Harold Garfinkels “net-work theory” reveals that the operability of the first programmable digital general-purpose computers is based on three properties that are characteristic of computing today: the non-representational, public and discrete nature of computer screens.

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