📢 New Open Access Publication!

Tim Hector’s (@timmoritz) dissertation Smart Speakers in Dialogue is out now (Univ. Siegen, De Gruyter Brill, 2025). The study looks at dialogues with Alexa, Google Home & similar devices — through the lens of linguistics, praxeology & conversation analysis.

👉 Open Access eBook: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111574332/html

#Linguistics #SmartSpeakers #ConversationAnalysis #Domestication #Praxeology #MediaStudies #OpenAccess

🤔 Faktencheck durch Community: Warum das bei Wikipedia klappt – und bei Social Media nicht

Meta und X vertrauen in Zukunft auf Community-Notes statt Faktenchecks. Damit öffnen sie Desinformation Tür und Tor.

Die Wikipedia zeigt, wie verantwortungsvolle Community-Arbeit im Internet gelingt – mit klaren Regeln und einem gemeinsamen Ziel: verlässliches Wissen für alle. 💡

📖 Mehr dazu im Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/01/21/wikipedia-gegen-desinformation/

#Wikipedia #FreiesWissen #Desinformation #Community #X #Meta

Our reading highlight of the week: The current issue of the research magazine future @UniSiegen, which focuses on our research.
📄 https://www.uni-siegen.de/presse/relaunch/publikationen/future/
What people do with media & media do with us... The 5 articles discuss our research on sensor media, AI and algorithms, the war in Ukraine, smart homes and virtual farming. More about us: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/
#MediaStudies #sensors #sensing #AI #Algorithms #Ukraine #smarthome #Farming #digitalculture #LivingInDigitality #DigitalFuture

Next week in Siegen: Our conference “Machine. Body. Space.” will discuss the entanglement of human and non-human sensing, featuring keynotes from Christopher Lloyd Salter and Bertolt Meyer (@myo@bird.makeup) as well as roundtable contributions by @Enriya @jakub_mlynar @timmoritz, Lorenza Mondada, Stephan Habscheid, and others.
Further information and the full program: https://u-si.de/9bIHY

#MachineBodySpace #SensorPractices #Sensing #HumanMachineInteraction

Our Collaborative Research Center "Media of Cooperation" (SFB 1187, @UniSiegen) has been granted funding for another four years (2024–2027). 🎉

DFG press release: https://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2023/pressemitteilung_nr_50/index.html

You can now find the TOC in open access and the individual, paywalled articles at DeGruyter:
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/dcs/9/1/html
They will become open access in a year. Please DM me for a review copy of individual articles if needed.

I am happy to announce that the current issue of Digital Culture & Society on “Taming Digital Practices” has been published, edited by @timmoritz, @Enriya, Tanja Aal and me. This issue deals with the #domestication of digital devices and everyday #data #practices. Please find an extract with a TOC and the issue’s introduction here: https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6357-0/digital-culture-society-dcs/?number=978-3-8394-6357-4

In the last panel of our dense and interdisciplinary #Technolinguistics conference, Alicia Fuentes-Calle addresses differences and similarities of traditional, modern and algorithmic linguistic and semiotic #ideologie|s.