Interface
Research article – An empirical study about the significance of partnerships and how partners mediate and shape platform power published in the open access journal Big Data & Society. by Fernando van der Vlist and Anne Helmond Social media platforms are among the world’s most profitable businesses whose business models rely on digital advertising revenues. The […]
Reflections on using social media profiles in ethnographic research by Simone Pfeifer As contact restrictions tightened last year with the developing pandemic, ever more colleagues began asking me for advice on ‘how to do digital ethnography’, knowing that I had been doing it since long before the virus transformed life as we knew it. Their immediate […]
Geomedia 2021: ‘Off the Grid’ – A genuinely interdisciplinary platform for research carried out at the nexus of Geography, Media, and Film Studies. Session: [T1S35] ‘Off the Grid? Into the Wild? The Possibilities of Practice Beyond Praxeology’ (Discussion Forum) Registration: until April 28th, 2021 (CEST) Schedule: May 6th, 2021, 11:45–13:00 (CEST) Location: online (Zoom: Stream […]
Geomedia 2021: ‘Off the Grid’ – A genuinely interdisciplinary platform for research carried out at the nexus of Geography, Media, and Film Studies. Session: [T1S10] ‘Portals, Patterns, and Private Spaces: The Platformisation of Automobility?’ (Discussion Forum) Registration: until April 28th, 2021 (CEST) Schedule: May 7th, 2021, 14:30–15:45 (CEST) Location: online (Zoom: Stream 1) Like just […]
Geomedia 2021: ‘Off the Grid’ – A genuinely interdisciplinary platform for research carried out at the nexus of Geography, Media, and Film Studies. Registration: until April 28th, 2021 (CEST) Schedule: May 5th–8th, 2021 (CEST) Location: online (Zoom) Geomedia provides a genuinely interdisciplinary platform for research carried out at the nexus of Geography, Media, and Film […]
Experiencing data – Negatives, positives, cyborgs, and nationalities: how it feels to embody unstable data by Pip Hare I was working on something, rearranging words on my computer screen. My mum called; a mobile call, not WhatsApp. I was just about to explain to her again that that costs money, but I let her speak […]
Pandemic audio diaries from two Rift Valley lakes in Kenya by Anna Lisa Ramella and Martin Zillinger In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake Naivasha in the Kenyan Rift Valley on how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic impacts their lives and livelihoods. In mobile research with mobile people, […]
by Magdalena Goetz Artistic interventions centring around queer/feminist discourses and practices are attuning differently to the pandemic: using social media and smartphones they invite participants to a virus version of a festival on digital feminism via YouTube and Telegram chats, to a collaborative feminist reading group via Zoom, to a solidarity online protest wearing digital […]
by Andreas Sudmann 1.How could/did one ‘attune’ to shifting research circumstances in light of the pandemic? Currently, I’m doing a media ethnographic study at TwentyBN, a company specialized in deep learning and computer vision technology. Recently, the startup has built an AI-driven iOS app for the fitness market called FITNESS ALLY. My focus is to […]
A digital mode of inquiry during ‘lockdown’ by Tomás S. Criado and Adolfo Estalella Ever since the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded into a major health and social crisis in Spain – first leading to, and later due to, severe lockdown measures – we have been taking part in a messaging group. Since mid-March onwards this space […]