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The collaborative research centre “Media of Cooperation” focuses on the genesis and distribution of digital and data-intensive media and approaches them as cooperatively accomplished means of cooperation. During the initial funding period we moved beyond the idea of single media and developed a con-ceptual understanding of media as accomplished through infrastructures and publics. By advancing a praxeological perspective which negotiates between past and present the CRC focuses on how cooperative practices are enabled by media and how they respectively co-constitute media themselves. Cooperation in and with digital media is often accomplished without consensus. New sensor-based and increasingly autonomous media particularly advance this develop-ment as their data capture, calculation and valorisation often take place without human meaning and sense making. The underlying intransparent, infrastructural distribution of data via algorithms and smart devices corresponds with decen-tralised, fragmented publics. As media practices are spread across apps, plat-forms and cloud infrastructures, they cannot be studied without attending to their connected and foundational data practices. The second phase of the CRC therefore focuses on the role of data and data practices in the context of infra-structural and public media – which for a long time have been treated as separate entities in media research.Whether we are dealing with delay minutes, family pictures on smartphones, digital patient data or social media likes – data need to be considered as ongo-ing accomplishments and as conditions for cooperation. The aim of the CRC is to develop a digital praxeology which builds on the research agenda of ethno- and technomethodology. To do so, the research projects focus on key digital (every¬day) practices, their historical situatedness and their future-oriented de-sign. The double focus on media and data practices renders the development and reflection of research methodologies even more central. To this end, the CRC combines ethnographic, digital, sensor-based, linguistic and design-oriented methods in order to account for the cooperative accomplishment of methods and methodologies. When working with heterogeneous data formats, empirical me-dia research faces the challenge to create relations between data whilst remain-ing attentive to their situated genesis through method critique. But cooperative methods also influence the media practices of our culture and society, as digital data and infrastructures assemble their own heterogenous stakeholders and publics. The CRC realizes its research agenda in interdisciplinary collaboration between Media Studies, (Socio-)Informatics, Sociology, Ethnology, Linguistics, Literary Studies, History, Pedagogy, Science and Technology Studies, Workplace Studies, and Digital Humanities. This set-up enables the CRC to offer praxeologi-cal fundamental research to understand digital culture and society. |
