#mediatheory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mediatheory, aggregated by home.social.
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🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy
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🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy
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🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy
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🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy
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🌍 Does #reality exist only in the #brain🧠
— or are we already living in the #reality of #DeepFakes 👥?If everything we see, hear, and perceive is first constructed in the brain—how certain can we really be about #reality anymore?
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2021/12/05/wie-wirklich-ist-bewusstsein/
📺 https://youtu.be/0LG4gU_jfik
#BrainResearch #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #Epistemology #FilterBubble #EchoChamber #DeepFakes #MediaTheory #DigitalSociety #Algorithm #SocialMedia #Philosophy
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Be honest: when was the last time you watched a TV show without looking at your phone?
We are living in the era of "Second-Screen Viewing," where the actual main event is just whatever app you are scrolling through. Streaming services are basically just expensive white noise generators now.
Here is a teardown of why the single-screen experience is dead:
https://vibeaxis.com/the-death-of-the-main-event-a-brutal-teardown-of-second-screen-viewing/
#MediaTheory #Psychology #Streaming #CultureCritique #Tech #DeepDive
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Article: The attempt to rethink digital art through the lens of Nicolai Hartmann’s ontology is genuinely compelling.
An ambitious and thought provoking contribution to current debates on digital aesthetics, virtuality, and the ontology of digital art.
#digitalart #digitalaesthetics #mediaTheory #philosophyoftechnology #digitalarthistory #AIaesthetics
👉 https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2026.11.113265. -
Article: The attempt to rethink digital art through the lens of Nicolai Hartmann’s ontology is genuinely compelling.
An ambitious and thought provoking contribution to current debates on digital aesthetics, virtuality, and the ontology of digital art.
#digitalart #digitalaesthetics #mediaTheory #philosophyoftechnology #digitalarthistory #AIaesthetics
👉 https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2026.11.113265. -
Article: The attempt to rethink digital art through the lens of Nicolai Hartmann’s ontology is genuinely compelling.
An ambitious and thought provoking contribution to current debates on digital aesthetics, virtuality, and the ontology of digital art.
#digitalart #digitalaesthetics #mediaTheory #philosophyoftechnology #digitalarthistory #AIaesthetics
👉 https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2026.11.113265. -
Article: The attempt to rethink digital art through the lens of Nicolai Hartmann’s ontology is genuinely compelling.
An ambitious and thought provoking contribution to current debates on digital aesthetics, virtuality, and the ontology of digital art.
#digitalart #digitalaesthetics #mediaTheory #philosophyoftechnology #digitalarthistory #AIaesthetics
👉 https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2026.11.113265. -
Article: The attempt to rethink digital art through the lens of Nicolai Hartmann’s ontology is genuinely compelling.
An ambitious and thought provoking contribution to current debates on digital aesthetics, virtuality, and the ontology of digital art.
#digitalart #digitalaesthetics #mediaTheory #philosophyoftechnology #digitalarthistory #AIaesthetics
👉 https://doi.org/10.11588/dahj.2026.11.113265. -
The Specter of the Ideal: Why the Kardashians and OnlyFans Models Share a Scrutiny
Psychotherapist MJ Corey says Kardashians and OnlyFans models are scrutinized similarly due to their narrative control and audience feedback loops. Learn why.
#Kardashians, #OnlyFans, #PublicScrutiny, #MediaTheory, #BeautyStandards
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A psychotherapist notes that the intense public scrutiny on the Kardashians is similar to that faced by OnlyFans models. This is because both groups expertly manage their public image and respond to audience reactions.
#Kardashians, #OnlyFans, #PublicScrutiny, #MediaTheory, #BeautyStandards
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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In this month's episode, in conversation with MEDLab fellow Stephanie Abdalla, Dr. Gebru discusses AI ethics research, the history of the AGI movement, and movements of resistance that can lead us to alternative AI futures. Dr. Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR for short), an independent organization of academics, activists, and engineers who believe in technology that benefits everyone. Dr. Gebru is also the co-founder of […] -
#Videodrome – where #mediatheory meets #fantasy and horror
Here at the Factory Theatre in Toronto:
https://mprove.de/chrono?q=43.64528,-79.40281&z=18&t=41&d=0&s=1&i=1#film #movie #HierSoAufDemSchirm #glasperlenspiel #chronomedia #mediatheory #mcluhan
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/
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Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory
Bart Cammaerts
(Taylor & Francis, 27/02/2026 - 278 pages)
"This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/public, production/reception, material/symbolic, mainstream/alternative, abundance/scarcity, control/freedom, and virtual/real – revealing their complex interrelationships and significance in understanding contemporary media and communication landscapes.
Students will gain a nuanced understanding of media and communication theories by examining both sides of each dichotomy and their dynamic interplay. The book historicizes each concept pair, illustrates them with past and present examples, and demonstrates how competing paradigms often complement rather than contradict each other. This approach helps readers grasp theoretical complexity, recognize the democratic importance of media and communication, and develop critical thinking skills through engaging case studies and discussion questions in each chapter.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking media and communication theory courses. Instructors teaching critical media and communication theory will find the dichotomy-based approach particularly valuable for helping students navigate complex theoretical debates and understand the field's intellectual development. It will also be useful supplementary reading for specific topics within broader media studies programs."
https://books.google.pt/books?id=btitEQAAQBAJ
#MediaTheory #CommunicationTheory #MediaStudies #CriticalTheory
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Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory
Bart Cammaerts
(Taylor & Francis, 27/02/2026 - 278 pages)
"This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/public, production/reception, material/symbolic, mainstream/alternative, abundance/scarcity, control/freedom, and virtual/real – revealing their complex interrelationships and significance in understanding contemporary media and communication landscapes.
Students will gain a nuanced understanding of media and communication theories by examining both sides of each dichotomy and their dynamic interplay. The book historicizes each concept pair, illustrates them with past and present examples, and demonstrates how competing paradigms often complement rather than contradict each other. This approach helps readers grasp theoretical complexity, recognize the democratic importance of media and communication, and develop critical thinking skills through engaging case studies and discussion questions in each chapter.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking media and communication theory courses. Instructors teaching critical media and communication theory will find the dichotomy-based approach particularly valuable for helping students navigate complex theoretical debates and understand the field's intellectual development. It will also be useful supplementary reading for specific topics within broader media studies programs."
https://books.google.pt/books?id=btitEQAAQBAJ
#MediaTheory #CommunicationTheory #MediaStudies #CriticalTheory
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Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory
Bart Cammaerts
(Taylor & Francis, 27/02/2026 - 278 pages)
"This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/public, production/reception, material/symbolic, mainstream/alternative, abundance/scarcity, control/freedom, and virtual/real – revealing their complex interrelationships and significance in understanding contemporary media and communication landscapes.
Students will gain a nuanced understanding of media and communication theories by examining both sides of each dichotomy and their dynamic interplay. The book historicizes each concept pair, illustrates them with past and present examples, and demonstrates how competing paradigms often complement rather than contradict each other. This approach helps readers grasp theoretical complexity, recognize the democratic importance of media and communication, and develop critical thinking skills through engaging case studies and discussion questions in each chapter.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking media and communication theory courses. Instructors teaching critical media and communication theory will find the dichotomy-based approach particularly valuable for helping students navigate complex theoretical debates and understand the field's intellectual development. It will also be useful supplementary reading for specific topics within broader media studies programs."
https://books.google.pt/books?id=btitEQAAQBAJ
#MediaTheory #CommunicationTheory #MediaStudies #CriticalTheory
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Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory
Bart Cammaerts
(Taylor & Francis, 27/02/2026 - 278 pages)
"This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/public, production/reception, material/symbolic, mainstream/alternative, abundance/scarcity, control/freedom, and virtual/real – revealing their complex interrelationships and significance in understanding contemporary media and communication landscapes.
Students will gain a nuanced understanding of media and communication theories by examining both sides of each dichotomy and their dynamic interplay. The book historicizes each concept pair, illustrates them with past and present examples, and demonstrates how competing paradigms often complement rather than contradict each other. This approach helps readers grasp theoretical complexity, recognize the democratic importance of media and communication, and develop critical thinking skills through engaging case studies and discussion questions in each chapter.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking media and communication theory courses. Instructors teaching critical media and communication theory will find the dichotomy-based approach particularly valuable for helping students navigate complex theoretical debates and understand the field's intellectual development. It will also be useful supplementary reading for specific topics within broader media studies programs."
https://books.google.pt/books?id=btitEQAAQBAJ
#MediaTheory #CommunicationTheory #MediaStudies #CriticalTheory
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Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory
Bart Cammaerts
(Taylor & Francis, 27/02/2026 - 278 pages)
"This innovative textbook explores media and communication theory, and its intersections with social and political theory, through the prism of eight core dichotomies – communication/media, private/public, production/reception, material/symbolic, mainstream/alternative, abundance/scarcity, control/freedom, and virtual/real – revealing their complex interrelationships and significance in understanding contemporary media and communication landscapes.
Students will gain a nuanced understanding of media and communication theories by examining both sides of each dichotomy and their dynamic interplay. The book historicizes each concept pair, illustrates them with past and present examples, and demonstrates how competing paradigms often complement rather than contradict each other. This approach helps readers grasp theoretical complexity, recognize the democratic importance of media and communication, and develop critical thinking skills through engaging case studies and discussion questions in each chapter.
This textbook is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking media and communication theory courses. Instructors teaching critical media and communication theory will find the dichotomy-based approach particularly valuable for helping students navigate complex theoretical debates and understand the field's intellectual development. It will also be useful supplementary reading for specific topics within broader media studies programs."
https://books.google.pt/books?id=btitEQAAQBAJ
#MediaTheory #CommunicationTheory #MediaStudies #CriticalTheory
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#GloriaMark said "our #attention spans are declining, averaging just 47 seconds on any screen." [today]
/via » The rise and fall of #TED « 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKg89xaS-GU
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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the idea that sound, too, can be divided into the traced and the untraced. perhaps the real disturbance is not inaudibility, but untraceability.
#SoundStudies
#AcousticEcology
#SonicTheory
#CriticalTheory
#Philosophy
#MediaTheory
#Anthropology
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Der Call for Papers „Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation“ (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom & online, 4.–5. Juni 2026) rückt „Noise“ als zentrales Element von KI-Systemen und kultureller Produktion in den Fokus.
Deadline: 16. März 2026
#CallForPapers #AIandCulture #MediaTheory
https://www.biblhertz.it/3773193/260206_Noisy-Systems_-Aesthetics_-Epistemology_-and-Computation?c=2376430 -
The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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Marshall McLuhan : Le médium est le message — comment les médias fabriquent la réalité
Marshall McLuhan révèle que le médium, plus que le contenu, façonne nos perceptions et construit la réalité sociale. Les journalistes, en s’insérant dans des cadres techniques et organisationnels propres aux médias, participent involontairement à cette fabrication. #McLuhan #MédiumEstMessage #Médias #Réalité #MediaTheory #MarshallMcLuhan #MediumIsTheMessage #Journalisme #Epistemologie
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/marshall-mcluhan-le-medium-est-le-message-comment-les-medias-fabriquent-la-realite/ -
Marshall McLuhan : Le médium est le message — comment les médias fabriquent la réalité
Marshall McLuhan révèle que le médium, plus que le contenu, façonne nos perceptions et construit la réalité sociale. Les journalistes, en s’insérant dans des cadres techniques et organisationnels propres aux médias, participent involontairement à cette fabrication. #McLuhan #MédiumEstMessage #Médias #Réalité #MediaTheory #MarshallMcLuhan #MediumIsTheMessage #Journalisme #Epistemologie
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/marshall-mcluhan-le-medium-est-le-message-comment-les-medias-fabriquent-la-realite/ -
"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”
#HenryFarrell, 2025
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;
https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/
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Reading Byung-chul Han on selfies made me rethink not images themselves, but the systems that force them into constant circulation.
New essay reflecting on Han’s Non-Things.
https://terraphilosophica.substack.com/p/when-images-lost-their-weight
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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The Prophet of the Digital Age: Marshall McLuhan
Long before the internet, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan foresaw its impact. His groundbreaking theories on media, summarized in the phrases 'the medium is the message' and 'global village,' predicted how electronic communication would reshape human society. His work remains essential for understanding our hyper-connected modern world. #Canada #McLuhan #Philosophy #MediaTheory 🇨🇦
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CW: Double Agents in the Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord and Artificial Intelligence
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"If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the
greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history." ―James Marriott, "The Dawn of the Postliterate Society" https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1It is not because of screens in themselves. It is due to the structure that was gradually applied to the World Wide Web from about 2005 as corporations took control of what was a public space prior to that.
In a sense the Internet was 'enclosed' in the same ways the Scottish Highlands and the Commons of England were in the 18th century. In the case of the World Wide Web, public common space was taken away from ordinary people and mostly given to wealthy corporations and people. These wealthy interests didn't even have to pay for it as they achieved it through a powerful coordinated campaign that involved copyright, streaming, intellectual property and proprietary rights and litigation.
The result of the corporate encloser of the World Wide Web is a devastating degree of intellectual and cultural impoverishment. That is what we are seeing now.
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"In the 2020s, Steyerl believes the poor image will become an endangered species: soon, most images circulating on the internet will no longer be photographic representations of reality, but data-based renderings that are essentially a programmatic fantasy. The ‘statistical image-making’ of Stable Diffusion and DALL-E derives its contents from large but ultimately incomplete datasets. The generated result is an average composite image that represents the machine’s idea of reality: six-fingered hands, distorted limbs, exaggerated body proportions and eerily smooth foods.
Medium Hot introduces a taxonomic framework for this visual phenomena – one that feels, at times, bloated and frantic in its categorical overlap. ‘Burnt-out images’ refer to works made from AI diffusion models, in which noise, or random data, is added to training data and then removed to generate an image. This diffusion process gives rise to what Steyerl dubs a ‘derivative image’, a term that echoes the concept of ‘derivatives’ in financial systems, highlighting the model’s extractive nature. Consider the derivative image a counterfeit version of the poor image. While the poor image attempts to skirt copyright limitations, the derivative image’s condition for existence is predicated on ‘large-scale data theft’. Steyerl highlights too the bias embedded in the AI means of production but ultimately resists the proposition that models should be inclusively reprogrammed on the basis that implementing diverse training data would only require more labour from microworkers and exacerbate the problem of data theft. AI thrives on disenfranchisement, contributing to ‘multipolar surveillance and… profound social disruptions’."
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Seen as a philosophical thinker as much as a visual artist, Papanikolopoulos explored themes like human-machine relations, mathematical aesthetics & the immaterial image. His approach viewed the computer not as a tool—but as a cognitive extension.
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Contributing a chapter to Christoph Ernsts, Katerina Krtilovas, Jens Schröters, and Andreas Sudmanns forthcoming essay collection "Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert" about #UncoventionalComputing:
