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Thomas Haigh, Erhard Schüttpelz: Practice in the History of Computing
Practice in the History of Computing
(S. 307 – 316)

Thomas Haigh, Erhard Schüttpelz

Practice in the History of Computing
Interview with Thomas Haigh, by Erhard Schüttpelz

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Thomas Haigh

ist nach einer Ausbildung als Programmierer, Informatiker und Historiker seit 2010 Associate Professor an der School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Er leitete von 2005 bis 2014 die Abteilung »Computers, Information and Society« der Society for the
History of Technology und betreut seit 2003 die Biografien der IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Sozio-Informatik, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Computerisierung und des Programmierens.

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Erhard Schüttpelz

ist Professor für Medientheorie an der Universität Siegen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Literatur- und Mediengeschichte der globalisierten Moderne, Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Medientheorie und der Ethnologie. Seine Arbeiten kreisen um eine Auslegung der Moderne, die sich ihrem Komplement, dem Konzept des »Primitiven«, zuwendet.

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Ulrike Bergermann (Hg.), Monika Dommann (Hg.), ...: Connect and Divide

Media divide and connect simultaneously: they act as intermediaries between otherwise disconnected entities, and as a “middle” that mediates, but also shields different entities from each other. This ambiguity gives rise to conflicting interpretations, and it evokes all those figures that give a first clue about this janus-faced relationship of “connect and divide”: gate-keeper, parasite, amongst others. If we give accounts of media before and after their mediated action, we refer to persons and organizations, automatisms and artifacts, signals and inscriptions, and we seem to find it easy to refer to their distinct potentials and dis/abilities. But within the interaction – the “middle” of media itself seems to be distributed right across the mix of material, semiotic and personal entities involved, and the location of agency is hard to pin down. In case of breakdown we have to disentangle the mix; in case of smooth operations action becomes all the more distributed and potentially untraceable – which makes its attribution a matter of the simultaneously occuring distribution of (official and unofficial) knowledge, labour and power. The empirical and historical investigation of this two-faced relationship of “connect and divide” has thus resulted in a veritable “practice turn in media studies.”

 

The publication studies four aspects of the practice turn in media studies: Media history from a praxeological perspective, the practice turn in religion and media studies, the connecting and dividing lines of media theories concerning gender and post_colonial agencies, and a historical and theoretical examination of the current relationship of media theory and practice theory.

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