04 November 22 -
Sat
05 November 22
Location
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Room D011 (lecture hall and foyer on the ground floor Department of Design)
Kiepenheuerallee 5
D-14469 Potsdam
Graduates’ Conference “un:real Spaces of Interaction”
un:real Spaces of Interaction. Forms of Social Order in the Spectrum of Media-specific Interaction.
A conference by and for master’s students and doctoral candidates
Publication
Following the graduate conference, a publication in German was published which, to our great delight, was included in the Open Library Media Studies (OL MeWi). The anthology was published by transcript in 2024 and is available in open access. The selection of the publication for the OL MeWi was made by a panel of experts, which is an honour for the editors and proves the high quality of their work.
Clara Kindler-Mathôt / Didem Leblebici / Giacomo Marinsalta / Till Rückwart / Anna Zaglyadnova (Hg.)
Un/Reale Interaktionsräume
Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion
Wie entstehen medienspezifische Interaktionsräume und wie wirken sie sich auf Formen sozialer Ordnung aus? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes betrachten das Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion und unterstreichen dabei die Komplexität der wechselseitig verbundenen Schnittstellen zwischen Menschen und Maschinen. Ansätze aus Medienwissenschaft, -linguistik und -kunst machen sozio-kulturelle Transformationen sichtbar, die durch oder in diesen sich prozessual entfaltenden Interaktionsräumen als Un/Realitäten entstehen. Der Band eröffnet damit einen interdisziplinären Blick auf die Entstehung, Gestaltung und Bedingung von medienspezifischen Interaktionen.
Conference
Keynotes
- Dr. Elisa Linseisen (Universität Hamburg): Too Much World. Potenzialbereiche des Digitalen
- Dr. Timo Kaerlein (Ruhr Universität Bochum): “I am, in fact, a person.” Front and backstages of Conversational AI
Following the graduate conference, a publication will appear which, to our great delight, has been included in the Open Library Media Studies (OL MeWi). The anthology will be published by Transcript and will be available in Open Access. The selection of the publication for the OL MeWi is made by a panel of experts, which is to be seen as an award for the editors and proves the high quality of their work.
Programme
The Conference programme is now available as Booklet with Abstracts (PDF). For continuously updated information, please visit the conference website unreal-digital.net. Please register via Eventbrite.
Friday, November 4, 2022
FH Potsdam, Building D, Lecture hall and foyer
09:00 – 9:20 Reception
09:20 – 9:45 Welcome
09:45 – 10:45 Keynote I (English)
“I am, in fact, a person.” Front and back stages of Conversational AI
Dr. Timo Kaerlein (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
10:45 – 11:10 Presentation (German)
Archive der Spracherkennung: Verhaltensüberschuss oder Funktionsoptimierung?
Benedikt Merkle und Tim Hector
11:25 – 11:45 Presentation (German)
Interaktion ohne Konsens: Grenzobjekte und Sensormedien
Vesna Schierbaum
11:45 – 12:10 Presentation (German)
Why there is no Tomorrow – Wie sich KI die Zukunft aneignet
Jan-Philipp Siebold und Paul Schütze
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch break
13:10 – 13:30 Presentation (German)
Ape. Together. Strong. Sprachliche Solidaritätspraktiken im Interaktionsraum r/wallstreetbets
Friederike Fischer
13:30 – 13:50 Presentation (English)
Debating Politics on YouTube: A Situational Analysis of the Mediatized (Sub)Worlds of LeftTube
Marius Liedtke
14:00 – 14:45 Poster-Session
14:50 – 15:25 Feedback & Snack
15:30 – 16:30 Panel (German)
Diskussion zu Conversational AI
mit Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, Timo Kaerlein und Tim Hector
Moderation: Didem Leblebici
16:30 – 16:45 Outlook for Day 2
ab 16:45 Joint end of the day
Saturday, November 5
FH Potsdam, Building D, Lecture hall and foyer
10:00 – 10:30 Reception
Curatorial greetings for the exhibition
Giacomo Marinsalta
10:30 – 11:30 Keynote II (German)
Too Much World. Potenzialbereiche des Digitalen
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elisa Linseisen (Universität Hamburg)
11:30 – 11:50 Presentation (German)
Intervallphänomene. Zur ästhetischen Erfahrung informatischer Kontrolle in digitalen Spielen
Lars Dolkemeyer
11:55 – 12:30 Feedback & Snack
12:30 – 12:50 Presentation (German)
Technische Körpermodifikationen in digitalen Spielen – und darüber hinaus?
Marcel Woznica
12:50 – 13:10 Presentation (German)
Digital Fashion im Online-Shop – der unreale Interaktionsraum als sozialer Handlungsraum
Helga Behrmann
13:10 – 14:00 Mittagspause
14:00 – 15:00 Workshop I (German)
Sites of Affect: Das Gesicht zwischen Medium und Mediatiserung
Anja Breljak und Vanessa Oberin
14:00 – 15:00 Workshop II (German)
Analysekonzept affektiver Ausdrucksbewegungen
Katerina Papadopoulou und Jeannette-Christine Bauer
15:10 – 15:30 Conclusion
ab 15:30 Joint end of the conference
Conference website: unreal-digital.net
The graduate conference “un:real Spaces of Interaction. Forms of Social Order in the Spectrum of Media-specific Interaction” focuses on media-specific interaction spaces and the construction of social orders and realities. Therefore, the overarching question of the conference is concerned with the emergence, change, and shaping of interaction spaces in the spectrum between human-human and human-machine, in which actors communicate with each other through or with technologies.
Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has given new importance to understanding and thinking about interaction spaces, online and offline. Following Erving Goffman’s notion of interaction and related key aspects of interactions, we consider how media-specific interactions are understood and analysed within media studies and media linguistic perspectives. Possible approaches include interface studies and affect theory as well as sociolinguistic studies of human-machine interaction and multimodal interaction analysis. Despite the different theoretical and methodological approaches, it becomes clear that interaction in, with, or through media makes sociocultural transformations visible. They unfold in the form of new social realities “such as virtual space[s], public spheres, or popular culture, which are hardly conceivable without media-based mediation” (Marx/Schmidt 2019, 12). These spaces of interaction move at the intersections of analogue and digital, online and offline, human and machine, real and unreal.
The conference is intended to provide a space in which Master’s students of higher semesters (from 3rd semester) and doctoral candidates from the fields of media linguistics and media studies, but also other associated humanities with relevance to media studies such as sociology, political science, aesthetics and art history, film studies, cultural studies, journalism, philosophy, science and technology studies, or cognitive science can present their research work.
The concept of interaction spaces will not only be taken up in terms of thematic content during the two-day event. The conference will also offer space for exchange and networking among participants in addition to the conventional lectures with interactive formats, such as panel discussions, workshops and a poster session.
We look forward to an engaging, interactive and communicative conference!
The un:real organizational team
Anna Zaglyadnova (Potsdam)
Clara Kindler (Frankfurt (Oder))
Didem Leblebici (Frankfurt (Oder))
Giacomo Marinsalta (Potsdam)
Till Rückwart (Potsdam)
Conference website: unreal-digital.net
An event within the ZeM’s annual focus on “Digital Realities”
