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Explorations

Digital media are transformative: The contributions in this volume explore how digital media (re)shape the ways of communicating, relating, doing, knowing, and living as much as how they are themselves subject to continuous transformation.

Explorations in Digital Cultures

Digital media are transformative: they (re)shape the ways of communicating, relating, doing, knowing, and living as much as they are themselves subject to continuous transformation. The contributions in this volume explore these contemporary shifts in and of digital cultures by analyzing a wide range of topics: from data, infrastructures, algorithms, logistics, economies, politics, identities, collectives to modes of critique and digital practices. Drawing from and contributing to ongoing debates in media culture studies, all contributions share a sensitivity for the multilayered histories of digital media technologies as well as their own discourses.

Explorations in Digital Cultures is a growing publication that will be extended with further articles. The articles are available at explorations.meson.press. A print edition will be available soon.

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Publishing Year
2020
Language
English
License
CC BY-SA 4.0
DOI
https://explorations.meson.press/

The Editors

Marcus Burkhardt is Professor for Media, Algorithms and Society at Paderborn University where he researches transformations of digital media and their impact on our cultures. His academic background is in media studies, philosophy and computer science. He conducted his Ph.D. in the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig-University Giessen on the media history and theory of digital databases. Besides exploring the potentials of Open Access book publishing in the humanities his research focuses on the transformations of knowledge in the age of Big Data and on algorithmic environments. His research areas and interests comprise History and Theory of Digital Media, especially Logi(sti)cs of Database Technologies, Big Data, and Algorithmic Environments; Media of Knowledge Production and Dissemination; Media Philosophy; Media Theory.

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Mary Shnayien is a PhD candidate at the department for media studies at Ruhr University Bochum. She is a member of the Research College “NRW-Forschungskolleg SecHuman – Sicherheit für Menschen im Cyberspace”, funded by the state North Rhine-Westphalia and currently writing her dissertation on the history of science of IT-security with a special focus on backdoors.

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Katja Grashöfer is PhD researcher in the research training group “Documentary Practices. Excess and Privation” funded by the German Research Foundation at the Ruhr-University Bochum. In her doctoral dissertation she studies the documentation of events on Wikipedia.
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