mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Official Account of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen
#CRC1187 #unisiegen
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Zahlen in bar oder mit Karte? Hört mehr zur Geschichte des digitalen Bezahlens und Macht moderner Bezahlsysteme im Interview von @sebgiessmann@mastodon.social Autor des Buchs "Das Kreditkarten-Buch: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens".
🎤 rbb radioeins
🔗 https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/die_profis/archivierte_sendungen/beitraege/sebastian-giessmann-das-kreditkarten-buch-digitales-bezahlen.html
🗓️ Save the date! The 2026 Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 Media of Cooperation will examine "Politics of Cooperative Sensing in Times of Crisis"
🗓️ 11-13 November
📍Universität Siegen
🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKgm9wkp
Registration opens soon
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #annualconference #politics #sensing #sensemaking #cooperation #crisis
We are looking forward to the last - but not least - lecture in our series «Studying Sensory Media & AI» tomorrow
🎤 Yarden Skop & Maria Boole: Staying with the Trouble of Personal Data: Data Subject Rights as Method in Conditions of Limited Access
📆 WED 8 July 2026 at 2.15 pm
📍 Universität Siegen, AH-A 217/18 & Webex
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #PersonalData #ResearchMethods #GDPR
💶 Wie wollen wir in Europa bezahlen? @sebgiessmann@mastodon.social & Petra Gehring diskutieren, was wir als Zivilgesellschaft anhand der aktuellen politischen Bedingungen tun & fordern müssen, um in Europa neue kooperative Infrastrukturen des Geldes zu schaffen.
🎤„Das neue Geld der europäischen Öffentlichkeit: Wie gestalten wir den digitalen Euro?“
🗓️ 20. Mai.
🔗 https://re-publica.com/de/session/digitale-unabhaengigkeit-und-monetaere-souveraenitaet-jetzt-wie-wollen-wir-europa-bezahlen
#rp26 #Europa #Demokratie #Finanzen #Zivilgesellschaft #Zukunft #Utopie #Politik #Gesellschaft #Digitalpolitik #Geopolitik
We are excited to have Chris Salter with us to kick off our “Mobile Sensing / Sensing Mobility” workshop with a lecture on:
🎤 "Sensing Immersion: Video passthrough, bodily technologies and sense coupling in co-extensive reality"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 217/18 & webex
🕑 19 May, 4 - 6 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/y4mnr
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #GuestLecture #MixedReality #Immersion #SenseMaking #Navigation #SensorMedia
📢 The programme of our new lecture series »Cooperative Methodologies: Studying Sensory Media & AI« is out, and we are excited about all the contributions!
📍Universität Siegen & online via WebEx
🔗 info & registration for online attendance: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #ResearchMethods #GenerativeAI #MixedMethods
📄 Reporting from the Winter School for Digital Methods and Data Sprint at the University of Amsterdam – an eye-opening experience!
🎤 "Auditing the Analyst: What Do LLMs See (and Miss)? "
🔗 more on the website https://u-si.de/O2bma
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #Report #LLM #AI #ResearchMethods #DigitalMethods #DataSprint #GroundedTheory
New publication explores contemporary digital politics
As a follow-up publication to the CRC lecture series in summer 2024, the special issue on Digital Sovereignty has now been published at communication +1, edited by Christoph Borbach and Tristan Thielmann.
🔗 https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/issue/221/info/ (open access)
#DigitalSovereignity #DigitalPolitics #AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #MediaStudies #OpenAccess #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation
🎤 International Workshop "Virtual Fences, Digital Shepherds"
📍Universität Potsdam, Campus III - Griebnitzsee, Room: S 17, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 Potsdam
🔗 info & registration: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/virtual_fences_digital_shepherds_de/
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #Workshop #VirtualFencing #PrecisionFarming #DigitalMedia #CooperativePractices
📚TONIGHT!
We invite you to the book launch “Images and Objects of Russia's War against Ukraine” (co-edited volume, editors Klimenko, Bareikytė, Sereda) tonight at 18h at Pilecki Institute in Berlin (Pariser Platz 4a). During the event and in addition to the book launch and discussion, an experimental film essay produced by Miglė Bareikytė and Natasha Klimenko in the context of this edited volume will be screened.
To participate, please register at prisma@trafo-berlin.de.
⚡️Call for Participation⚡️
Join us in Siegen for our CRC Critical Data Autumn School:
“Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI”
📅 22-25 September 2026
📍 @unisiegen
Engage in discussions, hands-on workshops and project work, and a one-day pre-conference.
✨ Submit your proposal (max. 500 words) by 30 April 2026
🔗 https://u-si.de/CUofk Learn more & apply now!
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #cfp #CriticalData #DataSchool #GenerativeAI #SyntheticImaginaries #MixedMethods
📄 New Working Paper veröffentlicht
🎤 Bina Elisabeth Mohn: "Prototyp 'Bundle Explorer: Berühren' Zur praxeologischen Konturierung semantischer Felder am Beispiel eines kamera-ethnographischen Forschungstools"
🔗 im Open Access: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/8743
#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #Praxeologie #Wittgenstein, #KameraEthnographie #Digitalisierung
Our forum series continues next week with
🎤 interventions by Marcus Burkhardt & Hendrik Bender on "System Prompts"
📆 Wednesday, Dec 3
🕙 2:15-4:45 pm
📍Universität Siegen, Herrengarten 3, room: AH-A 217/18 or online via webex
🔗 more info & registration on our website: https://u-si.de/RyQlv
#AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #ResearchMethods #DataEthics #UniversityOfSiegen #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #SyntheticMethods
☝️ Tomorrow continues our series with a lecture by Simon David Hirsbrunner.
🎤 "The Ethics of AI-supported Research Methodologies"
📍Uni Siegen, AH-A 217/18 & webex
🕑 29 April, 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #AIEthics #PersonalData #ResearchMethods
Don't miss the next Spring School on Media Climate Justice
🗓️ 17.-19.4.2026
📍 Bochum
🔗 www.mediaclimatejustice.org
Don't miss the double lecture feature in our series «Studying Sensory Media & AI» tomorrow
🎤 Azadeh Ganjeh: Counter-Choreographies of Data: Activism Between Platform and Ground
🎤 David Ribes: Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS From Its Research Infrastructures
📆 24 June at 2.15 pm & 4.00 pm
📍 Uni Siegen, AH-A 125 & Webex
🔗 https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #DataActivism #Interoperability #DataPolitics #ResearchMethods
📢 Don't miss the next lecture in our series
🎤 "Co-Designing Care & Technology: Methodological Insights from Community-Care Research"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 217/18 & webex
🕑 13 May, 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #ParticipatoryResearch #CoDesign #Care #CareTechnologies #ResearchMethods
🔥Our conference programme is out now! Register now!
🗓️ 11-13 November
📍Universität Siegen
We are very much looking forward to bringing together scholars, activists, artists, filmmakers & journalists to inquire into the politics of media, data, & sensory practices & to explore the role of cooperative forms of sensing & sense-making.
👉 check out programm & register now https://u-si.de/VOaj7
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #annualconference #politics #sensing #sensemaking #cooperation #crisis
Was haben Medien mit Extraktivismus zu tun? Welche ökologischen Katastrophen und sozialen Verwerfungen verursacht Extraktivismus? Und was können wir gegen die Ausbeutung ganzer Regionen für Medientechnologien tun? Diesen Fragen widmeten sich über 100 Teilnehmende auf der Spring School Medien:Extraktivismus vom 17.–19.4.2026 in Bochum.
Über die Methoden und Erkenntnisse berichten Julia Bee und Gerko Egert auf klimareporter.de: https://klimareporter.de/gesellschaft/kuenstliche-intelligenz-schuerft-mit-raubbau-methoden
📄 Neue Ausgabe in unser Working Paper Series da: No. 39 beschäftigt sich mit der Plattformisierung der Drohnenkriegsführung im Ukrainekrieg
🎤 Hendrik Bender und Max Kanderske: The Amazon of Drone Warfare
🔗 Open Access: https://lnkd.in/e9xCEYUT
#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #Platforms #DroneWarfare #Ukraine #PlatformStudies #FPVDrone #Gamification
This week's recommendation:
🎙️ Sebastian Gießmann: “Infrastructures and/as Environments: Practices and Ecologies of Circulation”
📍microform. Der Podcast des Graduiertenkollegs Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen
🔗 www.kleine-formen.de/infrastructures-and-as-environments/
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #podcast #networks #mediastudies #mediahistory
The conference aims at bringing 3 sites where boundaries are made, un- & re-made into a fruitful dialogue: southern EU borderlands, ‘smart’ farms, & urban spaces
📢 Conference Un/Making Boundaries: Seams, Borders & Fences in Sensor Media Environments
📍Universität Siegen, US-S 001/002, Obergraben 25, 57072 Siegen
🔗 info & registration: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/unmaking_boundaries_de/
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #conference #seamlessness #seamfulness #deepbordering #virtualfencing #smartcities #mobility #motioncontrol
Annoyed by AI slop? Lean into it with Elena’s Sloppy Research Persona:
https://networkcultures.org/longform/2026/07/01/slopification/
With kudos to the Institute of Network Cultures 🎉🎉🎉
Last day of our exhibition WE ARE NOT CARPETS I tell you my story
🕙 open today from 2 to 5pm
📍 POOOL, Löhrstr. 3 in Siegen
🔗 https://u-si.de/XhQwW
@unisiegen @we_are_not_carpets
#sfb1187 #wearenotcarpets #exhibition #art #installation #siegen #weaving
Next in our forum series:
🎤 Sergei Pashakhin on "Sounding board: Bespoke automation with LLMs in academic writing"
📆 Wednesday, Nov 19
🕙 2-4pm
📍Universität Siegen, Herrengarten 3, room: AH-A 217/18 or online via webex
🔗 more info & registration on our website: https://u-si.de/RyQlv
#AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #ResearchMethods #DataEthics #UniversityOfSiegen #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #SyntheticMethods
In welchem Gewebe kultureller Normen und sozialer Erwartungen erwachsen individuelle Affekte? Unser Workshop erkundet den Zusammenhang von Affekten, Mobilität und Medien.
Workshop: “Mobility, Affect & Cooperative Media”
📆 4.-5. Dezember 2025
🔗 Mehr Informationen & Anmeldung unter https://u-si.de/jQ3Ad
☝️ Don’t miss! We start our series with a lecture by Olga Gorinuova.
🎤 Olga Gorinuova: "Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 215 & webex
🕑 15 April, 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #PersonalData #ResearchMethods
We like to draw your attention to our conference on "Social Inequalities, Membership Categorization, and Interactional Asymmetries“
📆 16 July 2026
🕑 1 am - 7 pm
📍 Universität Siegen, AH-A 217/18
🔗 program: https://u-si.de/TIiwH
The highlight will be the keynote lecture by Waverly Duck at 5:15 pm.
The conference is preceded by a small ‚pre-conference‘ Navigating an Archive" on Wednesday
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #conference #inequalities #EMCA #ethnography #praxeology
We wish everyone a ‘Merry Christmas’ and a ‘Happy New Year 2026’! Thank you for your cooperation!
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear
🔥 Neuerscheinung zur Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens: Das Kreditkarten-Buch von Sebastian Gießmann - erschienen beim Kulturverlag Kadmos
📖 Eine rasante Geschichte der Kreditkarte, die uns in die verborgenen Welten des digitalen Bezahlens führt. Unsere aktuelle Leseempfehlung!
🔗 https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/das_kreditkarten-buch
🗓️ Morgen, 20.3. 12 Uhr Lesung auf der Leipziger Buchmesse: @sebgiessmann@mastodon.social stellt sein neues Buch vor
🔥The Histories of Tracking conference programme is out now!
We are very much looking forward to more than 15 presentations by over 20 researchers
👉 check out https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/histories-of-tracking/#
📅 Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2016
📍 University of Luxembourg
Histories of Tracking is an international conference jointly organised by the @c@mastodon.social²DH – University of Luxembourg and Universität Siegen.
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #conference #tracking #surveillance #platforms #webhistory #datafication
📄 Neue Ausgabe in unser Working Paper Series da: No. 40 beschäftigt sich mit dem Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Umwelt im Anthropozän.
🎤 Kevin Onland: Medienepistemologie sympoietischer Weltbezüge: Zur Kritik eines ikonisch-humanistischen Anthropozentrismus
🔗 Open Access: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/9108
#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #MediaStudies #Medienphilosophie #Anthropozän #BlueMarble
What are the challenges of formulating a new transdisciplinary theory of human co-operation? Our next workshop begins by taking as its point of departure the three maxims: pointing, touch, and skill.
Workshop: “Pointing, Touch, Skill”
📆 Thursday, 06 November 2025
🔗 https://u-si.de/QOGyp
Invited speakers:
🎤 Ellen Fricke (TU Dresden)
🎤 Jürgen Streeck (UT Austin)
🎤 Michel Lefèvre (Montpellier)
We continue our series on «Studying Sensory Media & AI» on Wednesday with a lecture by
🎤 Maija Hirvonen: Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and the Analysis of Technologized Interaction at Work with Functional Diversity & Mixed Abilities
📆 WED 10 June 2026 at 2.15 pm
📍 Universität Siegen AH-A 125 & Webex
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #EMCA #Workplace #Interaction #ResearchMethods #MixedMethods
📄 New Working Paper published
🎤 Luciana Serrano: "Research with/in Communities Fissures and Practices for an Anthropology Otherwise“
🔗 https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/7225
This paper pushes for a reframing of Anthropology as a collaborative and situated practice grounded in relationships rather than extraction.
#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #Anthropology #Raja #Decolonization
📢 Don't miss the next lecture of our series on «Studying Sensory Media & AI» with
🎤 Elena Pilippets: Situated, Distributed, Messy: Meme Research in Synthetic Social Media
📍 Uni Siegen AH-A 217/18 & Webex
🔗 https://u-si.de/bAlBg
The lecture series addresses methodological problems that emerge from studying media as an “ongoing accomplishment” (Garfinkel).
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #ResearchMethods #GenerativeAI #MixedMethods
New publication out now!
🎤 Marcello Múscari, Ehler Voss & Martin Zillinger
📖 "Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship: Ethnographic Inquiries into New Communities of Practice and Enskilment"
🔗 Open Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-72097-4
We recommend!
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #Publication #Scaling #Transnational #Mediumship #Ethnography #CultureStudies #OpenAccess
We are delighted to announce the programme for the forthcoming Autumn School, Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI, taking place at the University of Siegen, 22–25 September
👉 check out our programme: https://u-si.de/OrjWc
The programme contains updates on the event's schedule, keynotes, workshops, & presentations.
Want to join us? Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiUSyl8uXiHH-oNoM-QxIiste9RDWMhT89rxXh9B9DJjDI-Q/viewform
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #CriticalData #DataSchool #ai #methods #platforms #syntheticsocialmedia
Join our “Un/Making Boundaries” Conference on 16 and 17 April 2026 last minute! Due to some travel hiccups we decided to open our livestream for online attendance. Please register to receive the Webex links: https://u-si.de/ACxDX
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #conference #seamlessness #seamfulness #deepbordering #virtualfencing #smartcities #mobility #motioncontrol #interoperability #friction