Precision Farming: Co-operative Practices of Virtual Fencing (P04*)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

The project examines collaborative processes of semi-autonomization based on sensor technologies in the field of precision farming and closed-loop sensing from a media-theoretical, media-historical, and media-praxeological perspective. Against the background of current socio-political and ecological challenges in the agricultural sector, the project uses the example of digital herding to evaluate the question of how cooperative media practices create virtual geographical borders. It thus makes a praxeological contribution to the shared history of media, technology and agriculture of border practices together with the empirical analysis of their implementation.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Kathrin Friedrich; Professor Dr. Tristan Thielmann