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Digital media are a means of cooperation & cooperatively accomplished. Media of Cooperation studies how.
#CRC1187 #unisiegen
funded by the #dfg_public

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Digital media are a means of cooperation and cooperatively accomplished. "Media of Cooperation" studies how.

"Media of Cooperation" is an interdisciplinary collaborative research centre (CRC) located at the University of Siegen. We consist of 19 subprojects with more than 60 researchers from media studies, ethnology, sociology, computer science, linguistics, ubiquitous computing, science and technology studies, education, law, and engineering.

"Media of Cooperation" has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) @dfg__public since 2016. The research centre studies digital, data-intensive media, which have brought new challenges and potential dangers in the context of ubiquitous data processing of sensor technologies and semi-autonomously operating artificial intelligence (AI).

Sensor media shape everyday practices in the smart home, collect environmental data, control semi-autonomous vehicles and, in the form of wearables, measure and quantify every aspect of our bodies. As a result, human decision-making is increasingly encroached upon by computerised infrastructures. In public debates, sensor media and AI are frequently criticised as threats to data sovereignty and human agency.

The CRC "Media of Cooperation" addresses and counters these developments and debates by focusing on the reciprocity of people, media, and environments: sensor media and AI intertwine bodies and data, media and environments, and human and non-human actors reciprocally but not symmetrically. In this field of tension, the CRC conducts basic digital research that mediates between past and present and shapes future digital media.

The CRC’s main location is @unisiegen Further nodes in our research network are located @uni_koeln, @fernunihagen, @ruhrunibochum, @viadrina, @universitaetbonn , @unikonstanz, and @c2dh_lu @uni.lu. by @mediaofcoop

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Einladung zur Abschiedsvorlesung von Prof. em. Erhard Schüttpelz 🌴

📅 Mittwoch, 11.11.2026
🕕 18:00 Uhr s.t. (pünktlicher Beginn!)
📍 Campus Unteres Schloss, Hörsaalgebäude US-C 115, 57072 Siegen
👉 Um Anmeldung wird gebeten: https://u-si.de/QFn7O

Im Rahmen der Jahrestagung des SFB „Medien der Kooperation“ laden wir herzlich ein:

🎬 GENERAL MARSEILLE
Ein Filmessay von Anja Dreschke, Carlo Peters und Erhard Schüttpelz, gesprochen von Hanns Zischler.

🎤 Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Rembert Hüser

Über 20 Jahre hat Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz an der Universität Siegen geforscht und gelehrt. 2005 übernahm er hier die Professur für Medientheorie und hat die Siegener Medienwissenschaft seitdem entscheidend mitgeprägt.

#MeWi #UniSiegen #SFB1187 #MedienDerKooperation #Abschiedsvorlesung taken in Siegen Universität by @mediaofcoop

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From 22–25 September 2026, the CRC “Media of Cooperation” hosted the Autumn School “Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI”, bringing together approaches to studying how generative AI is embedded in and shaped by platform environments. One outcome was a collaborative methods map that centers the specific affordances of AI-driven platform phenomena, asking how synthetic personas, algorithmic infrastructures, slopification, and the affective economies of social media challenge established methods in platform studies. Mapping method inputs, frictions, data, actions, and open questions across these dimensions, the map offers a starting point for a cross-cutting methodological approach in which methods are adapted, combined, and invented in response to the evolving relations between platforms, AI, and social media practices.

🔗 more info on our website

#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #AutumnSchool #SyntheticSocialMedia #AI #CriticalDataStudies by @mediaofcoop

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boasblogs is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a one-day conference on “Anthropology. Activism. Power.” at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on October 16, from 12:30–22:00.

We invite you to come together, join the conversation and celebrate with us!

Check out the program and read the blogs at: https://boasblogs.org/events/10-yrs-boasblogs/

To attend in person, please register at: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/anthropology-activism-power/

#Anthropology #PublicAnthropology #Activism #Power #Academia #Ethnography #Germany #boasblogs #WOC #GSSC #SFB1187 #ICIBerlin taken in Berlin, Deutschland by @mediaofcoop

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Our registration closes tomorrow. Don't miss the deadline; register now on our website (link in bio)

#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #annualconference #politics #sensing #sensemaking #cooperation #crisis by @mediaofcoop

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7 days ago

📄 Out now! Special-themed collection “Ambient Amplification: Memecry Across Platforms,” with Platforms & Society, edited by Elena Pilipets and Marloes Geboers.

This is volume one. Happy reading, and stay tuned for the forthcoming call for contributions to Volume Two!

All individual articles are open access. You can find the list on our website (link in bio)

#SFB1187 #MediaofCooperation #MedienderKooperation #Publication #OpenAccess #Memes #platforms by @mediaofcoop

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9 days ago

Wir starten eine neue Reihe, in der wir die Forschungsprojekte an unserem SFB vorstellen. In den nächsten Wochen und Monaten erfahrt ihr mehr darüber, was Medien der Kooperation sind und wie wir sie erforschen.

Los geht’s mit Sebastian Gießmann, der das Projekt „Digital-vernetzte Medien zwischen Spezialisierung und Universalisierung“ leitet und seine Forschung zur Kreditkarte vorstellt.

⭐️ Project Spotlight: A01 Digital vernetzte Medien zwischen Spezialisierung und Universalisierung
🎤 mit Sebastian Gießmann, Schafer Valérie, Tatjana Seitz, Inga Schuppener
📍 @unisiegen @mewi_unisiegen

We’re launching a new series to introduce the research projects at our SFB. Over the coming weeks and months, you’ll learn about what “media of cooperation” are and how we research them.

We’re kicking things off with Sebastian Gießmann, who leads the project “Digitally Networked Media Between Specialization and Universalization” and will present his research on credit cards.

⭐️ Project Spotlight: A01 Digital Network Technologies between Specialization and Generalization
🎤 with Sebastian Gießmann, Schafer Valérie, Tatjana Seitz, Inga Schuppener
📍 @unisiegen @mewi_unisiegen

#SFB1187 #MediaofCooperation #ResearchProjects #MediaStudies #digipay by @mediaofcoop

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9 days ago

Registration for our next annual conference “Politics of Cooperative Sensing: Techfascism, War, Geopolitics, & Resistance” is open.
Register now 👉 https://u-si.de/CeUKi

You can register until October 11th.

We look forward to bringing together scholars, activists, artists, filmmakers, and journalists to inquire into the politics of media, data, and sensory practices, and to explore the role of cooperative forms of sensing and sense-making.
Keynotes, presentations, and workshops shape the amazing program of our annual conference. The conference will take place on November 11-14 at the University of Siegen.

The conference promises critical discussions on the politics of cooperative sensing and sense-making in a time marked by geopolitical and climate catastrophes, anti-democratic backlashes, and the rise of authoritarian regimes—all phenomena closely intertwined with increasing datafication, generative AI developments, and the growing power of Big Tech.

#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #annualconference #politics #sensing #sensemaking #cooperation #crisis by @mediaofcoop

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2 months ago

Wir laden zum Community-Workshop “Geteilte Mobilität: Wer verteilt was?”
Leihfahrräder, E-Scooter und App-basierte Mobilitätsdienste sind aus dem städtischen Leben nicht mehr wegzudenken. Doch die geteilte Mikromobilität wirft auch wichtige Fragen hinsichtlich von Raum, Infrastruktur, Daten und Teilhabe auf. Der Workshop lädt Teilnehmende ein, gemeinsam die Rolle der Geteilten Mikromobilität in der Stadt Köln zu erkunden.

🗓️ Donnerstag, 17.09.2026, 10:00 - 17:30 Uhr
📍 Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld (https://bueze.de/), Venloer Straße 429, 50825 Köln
🔗 Anmeldung unter https://my.liberaforms.org/workshop-geteilte-mobilitaet
📧 Kontakt unter A03@uni-siegen.de

Wie?
Während des Workshops am 17.09. werden wir uns gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Verkehrsmitteln durch die Stadt bewegen und unsere Erfahrungen anschließend gemeinsam mit Künstler:innen kartieren.
Interessierte sind auch herzlich eingeladen, am 18.09. an der weiteren Auswertung der Ergebnisse teilzunehmen.

#Encounters #SharedMobility #SeamfulMobilities #MaaS #Cologne #Ehrenfeld by @mediaofcoop

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📖 new publication in our Working Paper Series Media of Cooperation is out now: No. 41 looks beyond informant consent by discussing the asymmetry between consumer data preferences and the conditions under which consumers engage with data-driven platforms.

🎤 Maximilian Becker & Catalina Goanta: Beyond Informed Consent: Consumer Data Preferences and the Case for Enforcement-Oriented Transparency
🔗 Open Access: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10978

Digital markets have fundamentally altered the conditions under which consumers engage with data-driven platforms, yet regulatory frameworks, particularly in the EU, continue to rely on consent-based models that presuppose a level of technological literacy and informed agency that most users do not possess. Drawing on existing empirical evidence from five studies across the US, UK, and EU, this paper departs from the empirical argument that consumer preferences regarding personal data are highly unstable and shaped by framing and trust rather than genuine, well-formed values.

Consumers systematically overestimate the privacy protections offered by paid services, accept personalization without understanding its commercial scope, and disregard privacy notices regardless of their clarity. This argument exposes the structural failure of transparency-as-disclosure as a regulatory strategy: informing consumers better does not fix markets distorted by asymmetric information and complex, layered business models.

Rather than doubling down on consumer-facing transparency obligations, this paper proposes a shift toward enforcement-oriented business-model transparency, under which platforms would be required to disclose aspects such as data flows, monetization strategies, but also algorithmic processes to regulatory authorities and civil society. The Digital Services Act and the General Data Protection Regulation already point somewhat in this direction. Building on this logic, the paper proposes further machine-readable transparency as a complement to existing information obligations.

#SFB1187 #WorkingPaper #MedienderKooperation #OpenAccess #DigitalServicesAct #MediaRegulation #PlatformGovernance by @mediaofcoop

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The conference “Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change” took place from 12-15 July 2026 in the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine and online.

“This year’s theme, Rooted Knowledges and Dialogues for Change, invited us to reflect on what becomes possible when knowledge is grounded in place, embodied experience, and relationships. Over four days, we explored these questions through panels, workshops, artistic interventions, and countless conversations that extended well beyond the conference rooms.” (Ruta, 2026).

Prof. Dr. Miglė Bareikytė from the War Sensing Team together with Tetyana Lokot & Kateryna Maikovska contributed to the conference with a talk about sabotage practices as resistance acts and their presence on Telegram.

#ruta #conference #digitalactivism #sabotage #resistance

@mediaofcoop @european_newschool @viadrina taken in Carpathian Mountains by @mediaofcoop

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