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Baukasten einer Mediengeschichte des Tonstudios
(27/04/20)Während es für visuelle Künste zahlreiche Konzepte gibt, das Studio beschreibbar zu machen, lassen sich diese nicht einfach auf das Akustische übertragen. Das Tonstudio und seine Techniken bewegen sich in einem Spannungsfeld ... -
Das Materialismus-Apriori - Vom Wissen des Materials in Alain Resnais’ "Toute la mémoire du monde"
(27/04/20)Der Beitrag nimmt seinen Ausgang von einem filmischen Essay Alain Resnais’ über die Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Dabei zeigt der Film Toute la mémoire du monde, den Resnais 1956 mit seinem Assistenten Chris Marker ... -
Philip Scheffner im Gespräch mit Kathrin Peters - Auf Augenhöhe arbeiten
(27/04/20)Ausgangspunkt des Gesprächs mit dem Dokumentarfilmer Philip Scheffner sind dessen Projekte Revision (2012) und And-Ek Ghes … (2016). Während der erste Film die Umstände der Erschießung von zwei rumänischen Migranten bei ... -
Facebook’s evolution: development of a platformas- infrastructure
(01/05/19)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 ... -
When search engines stopped being human: menu interfaces and the rise of the ideological nature of algorithmic search
(16/06/17)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 ... -
Semantics of the internet: a political history
(29/08/19)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
(04/10/18)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
(31/03/17)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
(14/02/20)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)
(02/03/20)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 ...