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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 […]
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 […]
by Daniela van Geenen In the beginning of this year, I had fleshed out an outline of my PhD research project aiming at the study of sensors as everyday knowledge technologies. As I sketch in my project description, sensors play an increasing role in the production and processing of data that inform about and help […]
by Asli Telli I have been caught in the whirlpool of infodemic like many of you for quite a long while; especially during the first stage of what has been varying degrees of lockdown in our small planet. I refer to the Earth as small since the past several months have also been a crash […]
by Danny Lämmerhirt The COVID-19 pandemic and the mediatization of social life raised lively discussions and concerns among academic and industry ethnographers. Rather than adding to discussions how to cope with the disappearance of ‘on-site’ research, I would like to speak about how COVID-19 prompted me to rethink some common conceptions of ethnographic research, and […]