Axel Volmar
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Medien tragen seit jeher dazu bei, Bezüge zwischen Raum und Zeit neu zu ordnen. Spätestens seit dem 19. Jahrhundert durchdringen sie massiv unseren Arbeits-, Freizeit- und Wissenschaftsalltag, so dass sich die Frage nach dem Wandel von Raum-Zeit-Konfigurationen nicht zuletzt historisch stellt. Angesichts der medial gewonnenen Einsichten in den Mikro- und Makroraum unserer lebensweltlichen Umgebung wird insbesondere die Wahrnehmung des Subjekts von...
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The recent explosion in interest in both the democratization of data and artificial intelligence (AI) brings important questions to the fore: How democratic is AI? How to explore the political aspects of modern machine learning if many computer scientists consider AI technologies a black box fundamentally opaque to human understanding? And how does this affect questions of accountability and political agency?This timely collection discusses the complex...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of "idian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction....
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices both theoretically and empirically. Which forms of cooperation are constituted in and by data practices? And how are human and nonhuman agencies distributed...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Die Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT im Herbst 2022 heizte die Kontroverse um Künstliche Intelligenz an und führte zu einer seitdem unaufhörlichen Fragelust - verstärkt dadurch, dass dieselben Prompts schon kürzeste Zeit später andere Outputs generieren. In einem experimentellen Format präsentieren die Herausgeber*innen erste kommentierte Gespräche mit KI-Sprachmodellen. Sie geben Einblick in dialogische Szenen, die eine fortlaufende Transformation...