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Alexandra Albert, NWDTC CASE Studentship, Manchester & Lancaster

Cora Bender, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Monika Buscher, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

Mobilities.Lab, Centre for Mobilities Research

I study everyday material and epistemic practices - on the move or in situ - including experiences and practices of place-making, distributed collaboration, collective intelligence. Consideration of post-human IT-ethics plays a major part in my work. My approach is ethnographic and analytically rooted in ethnomethodology, science and technology studies, mobilities research and phenomenology. My work critically informs participatory, interdisciplinary socio-technical innovation. I co-design socio-technical ubiquitous computing imaginaries and technologies in different settings (from art and architecture to emergency response). I am Director of mobilities.lab and edit the book series Changing Mobilities together with Peter Adey.

Ariane Fernandes da Conceição, Brazil/Lancaster University

I'm a PHD student in Rural Development, at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. I have a Master's degree in Agricultural Extension, Federal University of Santa Maria, researching the topic on the internet rural environment, through the analysis of the use and appropriation of the internet by farmers. Graduated in Management of Cooperatives, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) and a degree in Management at the Faculty Senac Porto Alegre, acting on issues of strategic planning in the third sector organizations. Specialising in Information and Communication Technologies applied to Education at the Federal University of Santa Maria / Open University of Brazil. I am a tutor on the distance course "Planning and Rural Development" (Plageder) offered by UFRGS. Main areas of interest revolve around the Rural Communication, Food, Extension and Rural Development, Mobilities, Management, Strategic Planning, Associations and Cooperatives.

Adam Fish, Media and Cultural Studies, Lancaster University

I am a social anthropologist of digital culture, business, and politics. I investigate the interface of economic and political power, cultural discourses and practices, and networked communication technologies. These interests coalesce into critical and ethnographic investigations into media industries and media activism. Based on my ethnographic research into media companies in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, I am presently writing a book about the corporate myths of media "democratization" and internet and television convergence.  In my present project I am investigating the politics of information infrastructures through ethnographic fieldwork with cloud computing companies, peer-to-peer banks, and "internet freedom" activists.

Peter Fuzesi, NWDTC, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

Sebastian Gießmann, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

PhD in Cultural History and Theory, is Academic Coordinator of the DFG-Research Training Group "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen, Germany. His research interests include cultural techniques of cooperation, network history, material culture, anthropology of law, and Internet studies. He co-edits the Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften and ilinx, the Berlin Journal in Cultural History and Theory. Gießmann serves as spokesperson for the working group on data and networks in the German Society for Media Studies and is part of the editing team of de.hypotheses.org.

Katja Glaser, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Katja Glaser is a PhD candidate at the DFG Research Training Group ‘Locating Media’ at the University of Siegen. She is currently writing her PhD thesis “‘Street Art’ in the digital road network”, dealing with street art and or in combination with new media technologies. Her research interests are: Street Art & Urban Art, Media Aesthetics, Mobile Media, (Mobile) Interface Theory and Social Networking.

http://locatingstreetart.com/

Alex Haagaard, PDR Online and Lancaster University

Alex is a Research Officer at PDR in Cardiff, where she produces theoretical and knowledge transfer research based on the unit’s practical design work. Alex's research practices are troublingly labile and amorphous – incorporating autoethnography, artistic production, practical design work, and theoretical reflections – but they periodically coalesce into sociotechnical studies of novel design methodologies, and of healthcare design as a process of building infrastructure for diverse clinical interactions. Broadly, Alex is interested in how novels ways of conceptualizing and engaging with data may open up opportunities for ontological reconfigurations within and around medical practices.

Ilham Huynh, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Ilham Huynh is a  Ph.D. Candidate of Linguistics at the University of Siegen and a member of the 'Locating Media' research training programme. She also is a lecturer in the bachelor programme 'Language & Communication' at the University of Bonn. She is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis 'Hand’s on Heart – The Multimodal Production of Emotions in Turkish and German Everyday Storytellings'. Her main interests lie in conversation analysis, intercultural communication, and multimodality of communication. She holds a masters degree in Linguistics, Psychology and German Literature.

Isis Kardels, Hamburg University

Isis Kardels is a doctoral student in the research training group “Loose Couplings” at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She holds a bachelor degree in Cultural Studies and a master degree in Cultural Science “Culture, Art and Media”.

Her research interests include connectivity, collectivity, infrastructure (data networks, transport networks, body), simulation, epidemics, contagion and media ecology. Her work implies areas of cultural studies, media theory and life sciences. Isis Kardels holds a bachelor degree in Cultural Studies and a master degree in Cultural Science “Culture, Art and Media”. Her dissertation project tries to think viruses in a social and technical context and examines viruses as an information carrier, as agents of transmission (body, machine)

Laura Kemmer, Hamburg University

Laura Kemmer is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School “Loose Couplings. Collectivity at the Intersection of Digital and Urban Space” at the Universität Hamburg. Her research interests include urban renewal, decolonial approaches, and the interrelations of space, time and mobility. She is working on her doctoral thesis which draws on Lefebvres Rhythmanalysis to account for the temporal patterning of inter-personal and human-material “bonds” that form around the re-installation of a local tramway (Portuguese “bonde”) in Rio de Janeiro. Laura Kemmer holds a masters degree in International Relations from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Potsdam.

Janine Klemmt, Hamburg University

Janine Klemmt is a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary post graduate program “Loose Couplings: Collectivity at the Intersection of Urban and Digital Space” at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In her master studies of media science as well as in her bachelor degree courses of German studies and sociology she was mainly concerned with media sociological questions and communications analysis. Her dissertation focusses on the interweaving of digital and urban/co-present interaction by investigating so called BarCamps plus goes into the related issue of hybrid spaces constitution.

Raphaela Knipp, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Raphaela Knipp is a doctoral researcher in the DFG research training programme "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen. Her research interests include literature and material culture, ethnography in literary reception study, literary geography and literary tourism. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis which adresses the practice of literary tourism within contemporary culture. She holds a masters degree in literary, cultural and media studies (German Studies).

Michael Liegl, Cemore Lancaster & Hamburg University

Michael Liegl is at the University of Hamburg. In his research he investigates the interplay of technology, spatial organization and social relations with a focus on the layering and hybridization of online and offline collaboration. Currently, he engages in domain analysis and participatory design and in the exploration of social, legal and ethical implications of IT supported emergency response in EU FP7 funded Bridge project http:/bridgeproject.eu/en. Recent publications include: ‘Digital Cornerville’ (Lucius & Lucius 2010), and ‘Nomadicity and the Care of Place’ (Journal of CSCW 2014).

Malé Luján Escalante
Artist and Cultural Researcher
PhD candidate at The Creative Exchange (LICA, Lancaster)

My research combines Digital Media and Cultural Studies with Feminist Techno-Science, to realize and make real Digital Public Space becoming via Knowledge Exchange projects.
I am developing a diffractive methodology to study public-private, space-place, time-experience, matter–meaning and fiction-reality as continuums. I am interested in how we understand and imagine ourselves within the hybridity that the physical-digital proposes. I design and facilitate Knowledge Exchange mechanisms, workshops and Social Impact projects to do with Situatedness and Mobilities, Memorial and Memory, Playfulness and Speculations, Wearables and Wellbeing, to understand Digital Public Space in the making.

Katrina Petersen, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University

Katrina Petersen is Research Associate at the Centre for Mobilities research, Lancaster University. She works on the SecInCoRe project, concered with the design of secure dynamic cloud concept for crisis management based on a pan-European disaster inventory. Her background is in science and technology studies, public engagement in museums and geology. k.petersen@lancaster.ac.uk

Simone Pfeifer, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Simone Pfeifer is a doctoral researcher at the graduate research training group 'locating media’ at the University of Siegen in Germany. As a visual and media anthropologist her current research focuses on media practices and translocal social networking of Senegalese in Berlin and Dakar, Senegal. A special focus of her ethnography and analyses lies on the practices surrounding photography, Facebook, mobile phones and wedding videos and their appropriation by users of different age and sex. Simone Pfeifer earned a M.A. in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the University of Cologne. Her research has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and she has been a lecturer at the research and teaching network “Media, Culture, and Society” at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Cologne.

Jess Phoenix, Lancaster University

Lara Salinas, Imagination, Lancaster University

Digital Public Space(s); public space; urban experience; production of space; knowledge exchange

Lara Salinas Alejandre is a practitioner and researcher with background in art and technology, specialized in creative uses of locative media and social web. As a practitioner she has participated in a number of international festivals, outstanding TodaysArt (Netherlands) FutureEverything (UK), Urban Transcript (Italy), NewMediaFest (Germany) and Web Biennial (Turkey). She has worked in Spain, Colombia and the UK, where she is currently carrying out her PhD at The Creative Exchange, exploring the potential of the Digital Public Space to enhance lived experience of urban public spaces.http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/people/Lara_Salinas

Cornelius Schubert, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Cornelius Schubert  is a postdoc researcher in the DFG research training programme "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen. He specialises in science and technology studies, medical and organisational sociology and innovation studies. He has conducted research on human-technology interactions in surgical operations and on global innovation networks in the semiconductor industry. His interests lie in micro-analytical studies of technologies-in-use and the unfolding of technological paths. He is currently studying the impact of computer simulations on predictive knowledge and practice and in politics and the economy. He holds a masters degree in sociology, psychology and linguistics as well as a doctoral degree in sociology. https://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/personen/dr.html

Jen Southern, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts

Centre for Mobilities Research

Jen Southern is an artist and Lecturer in LICA at Lancaster University, where she is affiliated to the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) and mobilities lab. Her recent fieldwork has taken her out walking with ramblers groups and footpath societies, on a flight with a flying instructor, and to meet a researcher who uses GPS to track reindeer. Her art practice is collaborative, process based and participatory, working with audiences to explore movement and sense of place through mobile technologies and locative media. She works across the disciplines of participatory art, sociology and mobile application design, and has contributed to international projects and workshops funded by NESTA, BBC, Arts Council England and Sagasnet.

Annika Stähle, Hamburg University

Annika Stähle is a doctoral researcher in the post-graduate study program "Loose couplings" at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests include affect theory, digital cultures, infrastructures and materiality, biopolitics and tourism. On the case of cruise ships her doctoral thesis examines the role of affective infrastructures in tourism with specific interest in control- and regulation-processes. She holds a bachelors degree in Communication Science and German literature and a masters degree in Sociology.

Johanna Steindorf, Bauhaus University, Weimar

Johanna Steindorf is a German-Brazilian media artist working with participative performances, audio, photography and video. She studied at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is currently a PhD candidate in Media Arts and a scholarship holder at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar. Her research focuses on the artistic strategy of the Audio Walk, its relationship to the subjects of gender and migration and how it can also be used as a research tool.

Lucy Suchman, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University

My research interests within the field of feminist science and technology studies are focused on technological imaginaries and material practices of technology design, particularly developments at the interface of bodies and machines. My current research extends my longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and problems of "situational awareness" in remotely-controlled weapon systems. I'm concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into these systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/lucy-suchman

Tristan Thielmann, Media Studies, Universität Siegen

Tristan Thielmann, PhD in Communication Studies, is a Senior Research Fellow in Media Studies and Media Geography at the University of Siegen. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Software Studies Initiative at the University of California San Diego as well as a Visiting Fellow of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program. His research interests include media history, cultural geography, ethnomethodology, science and technology studies. Through his interdisciplinary approach, his work has concerned the role of media technologies in mobile, locative, and cooperative media practices on different scales. Tristan Thielmann is co-initiator and supervisor of the Research Training Group “Locating Media,” funded by the German Research Foundation. He is preparing a habilitation thesis on geomedia.

Sam Thulin, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University

Sam Thulin is a postdoc in the mobilities.lab. He completed his PhD at the Mobile Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal with Kim Sawchuk and Owen Chapman. Sam has secured funding from SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) to carry out research on Situated sound composition in the context of mobile media: “Building on my doctoral thesis, the focus of my research will be the ways in which people use mobile technologies, such as smartphones and tablets, as devices for sound production, ranging from recording sounds to creating documentary or musical pieces on-the-go. The concept I am calling “situated composition” is intended to draw attention to these emerging practices while at the same time highlighting the ways in which sonic and social space are both composed and composing forces. “Situated composition” operates not only as a description of a set of practices (creating sound works with mobile technology), but also as an original theoretical contribution I intend to develop over the course of this research.”

Lisa Villioth, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Lisa Villioth is a post-graduate researcher in the DFG research training programme "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen. She specialises in society, politics and media, protest research, online-activism and political (online-)campaigning. Lisa has conducted research on political online campaigning of the german campagning organization "Campact". In her phd project she is studying the motivation of activists to participate in street protest and/or online-activism. With her research she wants to contribute in the discussion of critics of "Slacktivism" and "Clicktivism". Lisa holds two Bachelor degrees in media studies and political science as well as two Master degrees in media studies, political science and sociology.

Vanessa Weber, Hamburg University

Vanessa Weber is a doctoral researcher on the post graduate programme "Loose Couplings. Collectivity in digital and urban spaces" at the University of Hamburg. Her research interests include interdisciplinary urbanism, cultural sociology as well as politics of urban interventions and aesthetics. She holds a masters degree in urbanism and a bachelor degree in sociology. Besides her doctoral research she is a research assistant in the degree course "Metropolitan Cultures" at the HafenCity University Hamburg and was prior to this responsible for corporate sponsorship management within the communications of global sporting events. 

Judith Willkomm, 'Locating Media', Universität Siegen

Research Training Group "Locating Media"

Judith Willkomm, M.A. (Magistra Artium = German B.A. + M.A. equivalent) in European Ethnology (comparable to cultural anthropology) and Media Studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, currently PhD candidate at the Research Training Group “Locating Media”, University of Siegen, working on her doctoral thesis which explore the upcoming Influence of media technology in field science considering the example of bioacoustics. Research interests are ethnographic methods combined with media theory and theory of social practice, science and technology studies, history of science and media philosophy.

Volker Wulf, Information Systems and New Media, Universität Siegen

Volker Wulf is a professor in Information Systems and the director of the Media Research Institute at the University of Siegen. At Fraunhofer FIT, he heads the research group User-centred Software-Engineering (USE). He is also a founding member of the International Institute for Socio-Informatics (IISI), Bonn.

After studying computer science and business administration at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Paris VI., he got a Ph.D. at the University of Dortmund and a habilitation degree at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2001, he worked as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. In 2006/07 Wulf spent a sabbatical as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Stanford University, Palo Alto. His research interests lie primarily in the area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Knowledge Management, Computer Supported Cooperative Learning, Entertainment Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Participatory Design, and Organizational Computing.

Dennis Zuev, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University

Dennis Zuev graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State University, Russia and received his PhD in sociology of culture from Altay State University, Russia in 2004. He had taught Chinese Studies and  Media Studies in Siberian Federal University and Visual Sociology in Graz University.   Currently he is an Associate Researcher at Sociology Department, Lancaster University working on  aproject "Low-carbon mobilities in China" and Researcher at Center for research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon, Portugal. He has been involved in two other research projects – Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality in Siberia, funded by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany and  'Selfing': Contact, Magic and the Constitution of Personhood funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal. In both projects his research focus is on the changing habits of traveling. Dennis Zuev is a co-founder and Vice-president (Research) of Thematic Group 05 “Visual Sociology” in International Sociological Association. Together with R. Nathansohn he has published a book “Sociology of the Visual Sphere”.
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/profiles/dennis-zuev

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