Interrogating Datafication Towards a Praxeology of Data (Paperback)

Axel Volmar

ISBN 10: 383765561X / ISBN 13: 9783837655612

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2023

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Paperback. What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed and interrelated in data-saturated environments? The volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift from media to data practices. Making sense of digital societies implies studying mundane data practices: how they originated, the forms they take, and how they shape the future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interrogating Datafication Towards a Praxeology of Data (Paperback)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383765561X
• ISBN 13: 9783837655612
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed and interrelated in data-saturated environments? The volume collects theoretical, empirical, and historiographical contributions from a range of international scholars to shed light on the current shift from media to data practices.

About the Author

Sam Hind is a research associate in SFB1187 »Media of Cooperation« at the University of Siegen. Timo Kaerlein (Dr. phil.) ist Akademischer Rat im Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Von 2011 bis 2014 war er Kollegiat im Graduiertenkolleg »Automatismen« an der Universität Paderborn. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind digitale Nahkörpertechnologien, Theorie, Ästhetik und Kritik von Interfaces, Medienkulturen der Obsoleszenz und Social Robotics. Axel Volmar (Dr. phil.) ist Medienwissenschaftler und arbeitet zurzeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Sonderforschungsbereich »Medien der Kooperation« an der Universität Siegen. Er erforscht die Geschichte kooperativer Praktiken, der auditiven Kultur, des Designs und medialer Zeitlichkeit.