Digital Network Technologies between Specialization and Generalization (A01)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

The project pursues a historical praxeology of digitally networked media that foregrounds specific techno-economic trajectories since 1989. We situate co-operative data practices, business models and infrastructures of capturing, monitoring, and environing within advertising and sensor networks. To this end, the subproject reconstructs how digital cultures have dealt with their inherent control surpluses and the expansion of background cooperation between control, sensor and environmental practices. In doing so, it aims to explain how the capture of personal data has become the standard business model of the surveilled public internet.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• International Connection: Luxembourg
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Dr. Sebastian Gießmann; Professorin Dr. Valérie Schafer, since 1/2024; Professor Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz, until 12/2023