The lecture series explores how study data “in motion”, both theoretically, empirically and methodology. Sensor media capture environments and movements in the background, social media platforms assemble data across all online practices, drones offer alternative maps and logistical media render work calculable. The proliferation of data-intensive media requires researchers to develop their conceptual vocabulary and socio-technical understanding of data production, calculation and their underlying practices and infrastructures. The value of data, so Adrian Mackenzie argued, does not lie in the individual data points but in the relations data can enter. Throughout the lecture series, we ask how a praxeological account can enable us to account for the movement and transformation of data. We consider data practices as those practices involved in the making, calculation, storage, accounting and valuation of data among others which are socio-material and entangled with infrastructures. Data practices particularly pose the challenge how to account for situatededness and distributedness of media and require researchers to operate on different scales. The talks will unfold an interdisciplinary perspective on different data practices and will inquire into the methodological sensibilities needed to account for them.

 

The lecture series is jointly organised by the DFG graduate school “Locating Media” and the DFG cooperative research centre “Media of Cooperation”.

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