Researchers of the Media and Participation-Unit from Konstanz and Lüneburg presented their talks at this fascinating conference in Lüneburg! Here is an overview, for more information please visit the conference homepage. Technopolitical Modes of Operation in Digital Infrastructures, Urban Activism and Design Chair: Christoph Brunner (SP 5) The panel investigates the transformative potential of technology…
How is hearing with cochlear implants mediated in TV series, documentaries, youtube videos etc.? The contribution by Anna Grebe, Markus Spöhrer and Robert Stock (SP2) analyzes this issue by considering a range of popular narratives and audiovisual productions. The article was just published in the edited volume Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine (Springer). Abtract:…
Take a look at the new publication by our PI and colleague from @CDCleuphana. Read about „Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital“ recently published in Cultural Politics 14/2 (@DukePress) Abstract: This contribution outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [Umweltlichkeit] has become our condition today: the…
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) führt die Förderung des Projektes „Mediale Teilhabe. Partizipation zwischen Anspruch und Inanspruchnahme“ an der Universität Konstanz, der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, der Universität Hamburg und der Züricher Hochschule der Künste fort. Sprecherin der Forschergruppe bleibt die Konstanzer Medienwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Beate Ochsner. Mit neuem Fokus in fünf Teilprojekten wird das Team…
Auf der Tagung Physiognomien des Lebens. Anthropologie, Medizin, Kultur Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, 12.-14. September 2018 Tagungsort: Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Düsseldorf Zeiten und Programm Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Vittoria Borsò (Düsseldorf), Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sieglinde Borvitz (Düsseldorf), Prof. Dr. Michele Cometa (Palermo), Dr. Antonio Lucci (Hannover), Dr. Luca Viglialoro (Düsseldorf) Kontakt: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für…
Consider submitting your proposal to a special issue of Societies guest-edited by Dr. Linda Nierling (ITAS, KIT) and MSc. Maria Maia (ITAS, KIT) (Deadline: 31 January 2019) This Special Issue of Societies invites contributions focussing on socio-technical approaches to Assistive Technologies (ATs) in relation to people with disabilities. The 2006 United Nations Convention on the…
An der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) ist im Departement Kulturanalysen und Vermittlung ab 1. Oktober 2018 oder nach Vereinbarung eine Promotionsstelle (60%) im Forschungsprojekt «Teilhabende Kritik als transformierendes und transversales Mit» zu besetzen, mit dem Ziel der Promotion und mit einer Befristung von höchstens drei Jahren. Das Forschungsprojekt wird im Rahmen der Forschergruppe «Mediale…
Tomorrow we will open the conference Taking Sides – Theories, Practices, Cultures of Participation in Dissent (Konstanz, June 28-30, 2018). Please have a look at the full conference program! We will have Athena Athanasiou, Emma Perez, Gabrielle Coleman and Judith Revel with us giving keynotes on 28 and 29 June. Please come and join us…
If you want to read up on our wonderful speakers and their ideas on „Taking Sides – Theories, Practices, Cultures of Participation in Dissent”, here is our Programme Brochure. Join us tomorrow evening for the start of the event.
We are excited to announce the keynote by Athena Athanasiou (Athens): Taking sides, or what critical theory can (still) do Abstract Taking sides raises the questions of how bodies come to inhabit and materialize space, who is fighting whom and why, whose side are we on, what other sides are put aside or left out,…
The conference „Taking Sides“ will take place on June 28-30. The Program includes four keynotes and four interdisciplinary workshops, with participants from around the world. Interested students and researchers are welcome to join us, but please indicate your interest to Anne.ganzert[ät]uni.kn. Description The Conference “Taking Sides” will explore different perspectives on dissent, while understanding practices, cultures and…
Der NDR sendete am 27. Mai 2018 im Forum am Sonntag einen Beitrag über Sommercamps für Erwachsene und Digital-Detox-Reisen. Luise Stoltenberg (TP 4) berichtet in diesem Rahmen aus der Forschung des Teilprojektes Tourismus 2.0 – Zwischen medialer Vermittlung und digitaler Entnetzung und gibt Einblick in die eigenen ethnografischen Beobachtungen, die sie während eines Detox-Camps in San…
