S. Kategorien und Institutionen: Alltagsmedien und Digitale Kulturen
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian TedjasukmanaShortname: S Kategorien
Course No.: 05.054.16_720
Course Type: Seminar
Contents
Whether social networks, news feeds, video chats, voice assistants or wearables – never before have digital media been so strongly integrated into our own everyday life and everyday culture. These media have to prove themselves in everyday life. As digital everyday media, they perform familiar, useful functions and at the same time change existing everyday cultures in fundamental ways. For example, maps and phones are evolving into "Google Maps" and "Google Phone" through processes of convergence, datafication, commodification, and selection (cf. van Dijck, Poell, de Waal 2018). Such a transformation is associated with far-reaching technical and cultural innovations, but it is also accompanied by social, political, and economic frictions.The course is dedicated to this both gradual as well as radical change via case analyses, historical classifications, media theoretical meditations, and applied reflections of our everyday practices. On the one hand, we look at technical media from the perspective of their everyday use and examine them in the context of digitalization. In addition, we explore the question of the extent to which everyday life itself functions as a medium that mediates between social structures and technical infrastructures on the one hand and individual actions and material apparatuses on the other. Thus, the 'medium of everyday life' reveals whether and how new gadgets can establish themselves culturally.
The course consists of a seminar and an accompanying lecture series (lecture plus guest talks). It is possible to participate in only one of the two components. Prerequisite is the active and regular participation in the registered course.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11/03/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 11/10/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 11/17/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 11/24/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12/01/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12/08/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12/15/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 12/22/2022 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 01/12/2023 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 01/19/2023 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 01/26/2023 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 02/02/2023 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |
| 02/09/2023 (Thursday) | 16:15 - 17:45 | 02 445 P205 1141 - Philosophisches Seminargebäude |