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Inge Baxmann (ed.), Timon Beyes (ed.), ...: Soziale Medien – Neue Massen

Inge Baxmann (ed.), Timon Beyes (ed.), Claus Pias (ed.)

Soziale Medien – Neue Massen

Softcover, 368 pages

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An Massenversammlungen und den positiven oder negativen Phantasmen der Masse entzünden sich unterschiedliche Diskurse und Praktiken von sozialer Steuerung, Kommunikation und Gemeinschaftsbildung. Doch sind Massen nicht mehr das, was sie einmal waren. Von der algorithmischen Auswertung von Massendaten über die Diagnose zerstreuter Öffentlichkeiten im Zeitalter von social media zu neuen Massen­vor­stellungen wie Schwärmen, flashmobs und multitudes: Die Emergenz, Funktionsweisen und Effekte nun digitaler Massen sind neu zu untersuchen und zu verhandeln; sie bieten zudem eine Option, die Kultur- und Mediengeschichtsschreibung der Massen neu zu verstehen. Der Band umreißt dieses neue Forschungsfeld und versammelt Analysen der Differenz neuer zu alten Massen, der unterschiedlichen medientechnischen Bedingungen sowie der politischen Folgen aktueller Massenphänomene.

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  • digital media
  • algorithms
  • public sphere
  • crowd
  • social media
  • data
  • swarm model
  • community
  • media studies
  • protest movements

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Inge Baxmann

is a professor of theatre studies at the University of Leipzig. She is a member of the editorial board for the journal Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. She has been an associate director at the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. The primary concerns of her research are modern concepts and staging of national and transnational communities in Europe and Latin America and a historiography of bodily knowledge and media technologies from modernity to the present.
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Timon Beyes

is Professor of Sociology of Organization and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg and a director at its Centre for Digital Cultures, and holds a fractional professorship at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the spaces, technologies and aesthetics of organization in the fields of media culture, art, cities and higher education. Recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies (2020, with Robin Holt and Claus Pias), Organize (2019, with Lisa Conrad and Reinhold Martin), ‘The medie arcane’ (in Grey Room 75, 2019, with Claus Pias).
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Claus Pias

is Professor for History and Epistemology of Media at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lueneburg, where he is also director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) and the Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL). Main areas of interest are the media history and epistemology of computer simulations, the history of media studies, and the history and epistemology of cybernetics.
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