Annika Richterich

Ramón Reichert

Mathias Fuchs

Karin Wenz

Pablo Abend

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technological developments. This issue shows: The meaning of AI has undergone drastic changes during the last 60 years of AI discourse(s). What we talk about when saying AI is not what it meant in 1958, when John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and their colleagues started using the term. Biological information processing is now firmly embedded in commercial applications like the intelligent personal Google Assistant, Facebook's facial recognition algorithm, Deep Face, Amazon's device Alexa or Apple's software feature Siri to mention just a few.

Vol. 4, Issue 1/2018 – Rethinking AI: Neural Networks, Biometrics and the New Artificial Intelligence

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technological developments. The fourth issue "Making and Hacking" sheds light on the communities and spaces of hackers, makers, DIY enthusiasts, and 'fabbers'. Academics, artists, and hackerspace members examine the meanings and entanglements of maker and hacker cultures - from conceptual, methodological as well as empirical perspectives. With contributions by Sabine Hielscher, Jeremy Hunsinger, Kat Braybrooke, Tim Jordan, among others, and an interview with Sebastian Kubitschko.

Vol. 3, Issue 1/2017 - Making and Hacking

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed international journal that fosters discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms, and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments, and methodological innovation. The third issue, "Politics of Big Data," edited by Mark Cot�, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Jennifer Pybus, critically examines the political and economic dimensions of Big Data and thus details its contestation. The contributions focus on the materialities and processes which manifest Big Data and explore forms of value beyond the state and capital. These range from open data initiatives, social media metrics, machine learning algorithms, data visualization to data dashboards, critical data analysis, and new modes of data action research and practice.

Politics of Big Data

Digital Culture and Society

»Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation. This issue, edited by Anna Lisa Ramella, Asko Lehmuskallio, Tristan Thielmann and Pablo Abend, discusses the mobility of people, data and devices from the perspective of digital mobile practices. As the authors of various empirical case studies show, these need to be studied both situationally, and on the move. With contributions by Marion Schulze, Jamie Coates, Geoffrey Hobbis, Samuel Gerald Collins, among others, and an interview with Heather Horst, David Morley, and Noel B. Salazar.

Vol. 3, Issue 2/2017 - Mobile Digital Practices

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation. The second issue »Quantified Selves | Statistical Bodies« provides methodological and theoretical reflections on technologically generated knowledge about the body and socio-cultural practices that are subsumed, discussed, and criticized using the key concept »Quantified Self«.

Vol. 2, Issue 1/2016 - Quantified Selves and Statistical Bodies

Praktiken des Geobrowsings begegnen uns tagtäglich: im Umgang mit digitalen Karten, bei der Nutzung von Online-Routenplanern und in der Interaktion mit virtuellen Globen. Mit dem Browsen und Surfen verwandt, stellt die Studie das Geobrowsing als heterogenes Netzwerk aus medialen Objekten, Akteuren und Technologien vor und folgt in einer qualitativen Analyse privaten und professionellen Google-Earth-Nutzern auf ihren Wegen, Routen und Flügen. Anhand von aufgezeichneten Interaktionsprotokollen prüft Pablo Abend, ob das Geobrowsing an tradierte Konzepte des Kartenlesens anschlussfähig ist oder die Nutzung von Karten und Globen grundlegend revolutioniert.

Google Earth und Co. - Nutzungspraktiken einer digitalen Erde

Geobrowsing

»Digital Culture & Society« is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiry into digital media theory. The journal provides a venue for publication for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation in digital media studies. It invites reflection on how culture unfolds through the use of digital technology, and how it conversely influences the development of digital technology itself. The inaugural issue »Digital Material/ism« presents methodological and theoretical insights into digital materiality and materialism.

Vol. 1, Issue 1 - Digital Material/ism

Marc Bonner

Tanja Weber

Just Little Bits Of History Repeating ist ein Zitat aus dem Refrain der Propellerheads- Single History Repeating (1997). In diesem Stück werden Musikstile, Produktionstechniken und Akteure kompiliert, um vergangene Zeiten mit ihren Ereignissen und kulturellen Praktiken heraufzubeschwören. Auch der vorliegende Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit kollektiven Erfahrungsräumen der Medialisierung zwischen den Eckpunkten Medien | Nostalgie | Retromanie. Der Titel steht zudem für die medienkulturwissenschaftliche Konzeption des Buches: Mit Just Little Bits Of History Repeating sollen weder weitere Definitionen zur Nostalgie zu den bereits bestehenden hinzugefügt, noch ein kulturpessimistischer Befund geliefert werden. Stattdessen bietet der Band kritische Analysen als Reflexionen zu aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen wie auch medialen Umbrüchen – z. B. zwischen analog und digital. Die Beiträge sind in die Kategorien Sci-Fi-Nostalgie, Kollektive Nostalgie, Mediennostalgie und Retro-Medien gruppiert, die die zahlreichen kaleidoskopischen Vermischungen von Fragmenten und Ebenen von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart offenlegen. Just Little Bits Of History Repeating steht schließlich für die transdisziplinären Zugriffe, Theorien und Methoden, die auf den Themenkomplex Medien | Nostalgie | Retromanie angewandt werden.

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