Aufsätze in Zeitschriften
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Alpine Topographies of Loss: On the Media Temporality of Glaciers
(2020)Arguing that the materiality of Alpine glaciers was linked to notions of emergency and greed long before discussions of anthropogenic climate change, this article focuses, on the one hand, on complex tempor(e)alities of ... -
How to Live Together with Her (2013): Posthuman Forms of Roland Barthes’ Idiorrhythmy
(2020)Roland Barthes’ concept of idiorrhythmy describes a specific form of living together in a community, wherein everyone is able to retain their own rhythm and live according to their own speed (Barthes 2012). This paper will ... -
Gendered Production Culture in the German Film Industry
(2019)German cinema has in recent years experienced a revival of scrutiny for its evident gender inequality. Women directors receive less public funds, work with lower budgets, and their films have smaller releases; however, ... -
Corona-Memes: Gesellschaftskritik im Internet
(2020)Der Autor erläutert den Begriff Internet-Memes und zeigt anhand von Beispielen auf, wie sie die Coronapandemie kommentieren und den Krisendiskurs reflektieren. -
When search engines stopped being human: menu interfaces and the rise of the ideological nature of algorithmic search
(2017-06-16)Algorithmic search is entangled with a positivist ideology biased towards the assumption that neutrality can only be provided when search is performed by computational processes while shielded from human agencies. This ... -
Facebook’s evolution: development of a platformas- infrastructure
(2019-05-01)The purpose of this article is to operationalise an evolutionary perspective on the history of social media and to trace Facebook’s evolution from a social networking site to a “platform-as-infrastructure”. Social media ... -
Semantics of the internet: a political history
(2019-08-29)The history of the Internet has been narrated many times. However, political histories of the Internet with a non-US-centric focus are still an uncharted research area. This paper contributes to closing that research gap. ... -
Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web
(2018-10-04)What image defines the 1990s web? Perhaps it is an “under construction” gif, a “starry night” background or some other fragment of what net artist and scholar Olia Lialina dubbed “a vernacular web” (2005). If not a vernacular, ... -
Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries
(2017-03-31)Among the conceptual and methodological opportunities afforded by the Internet Archive, and more specifically, the WayBack Machine, is the capacity to capture and “play back” the history a web page, most notably a website’s ... -
The historical trajectories of algorithmic techniques: an interview with Bernhard Rieder
(2020-02-14)Bernhard Rieder is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a collaborator with the Digital Methods Initiative. His research focuses on the history, theory and politics of ... -
From closed world discourse to digital utopianism: the changing face of responsible computing at Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1981–1992)
(2020-03-02)Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) began in 1981 as a group of computer scientists concerned about nuclear destruction. Early CPSR members analysed military planning documents and levelled technical ... -
Making big data, in theory
(2013)In this paper, I explore four conceptual interventions that can contribute to the “big theory” sorely needed in regard to big data. This includes temporality and the possibilities of “dated theory,” the implicit histories ... -
Early African-American Film Database, 1909–1930
(2018)This dataset covers silent “race films”: films created before the year 1930 featuring African-Americans for primarily African-American audiences. The data was collected through research utilizing a wide variety of primary ... -
Memes of the virus: social criticism of the corona pandemic on the internet
(2020)The author explains the term “internet memes” and uses examples to show how they comment on the coronavirus pandemic and reflect the discourse of crisis. -
The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations
(2019)Following the mandate in the Paris Agreement for signatories to provide “climate services” to their constituents, “downscaled” climate visualizations are proliferating. But the process of downscaling climate visualizations ... -
Experience – Information – Image: A Historiography of Unfolding. Arab Cinema as Example
(2008)Why do certain images of history reach us, while others remain seemingly forgotten, in the infinite breadth of the past? Why do only certain events seem to matter? I suggest those experiences are not forgotten but enfolded. ... -
Digitale Medien, freie Bildung und vernetztes Wissen
(2015)Rezension zu: Petra Missomelius, Wolfgang Sützl, Theo Hug, Petra Grell und Rudolf Kammerl, Hrsg. Medien – Wissen – Bildung: Freie Bildungsmedien und Digitale Archive. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2014 -
Benjamin und Deleuze: Ansätze für eine kritische Geschichtswissenschaft in Filmbildern
(2006)Der Artikel verbindet Walter Benjamins Konzept des dialektischen Bildes und Gilles Deleuze's Konzept des Zeit-Bildes, um einen Ansatz zur Nutzung des Films als Instrument historischer Forschung zu entwickeln. Der Gedankengang ... -
The challenge of film considered as historical research: Claude Lanzmann's approach to the Shoah - constructing history in dialectical time-images
(2008)The article focuses on the use of film as a medium of historical research. It discusses the film "Shoah," directed by Claude Lanzmann, which is considered as a model for filmic history. It also looks into Robert Rosenstone's ...