Call for Participation Infrastructures of Publics - Publics of Infrastructures December 8-10, 2016 University of Siegen, Germany http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ First Annual Conference 2016 of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" (University of Siegen) Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) === About the Conference The first annual conference of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" addresses the crossing over of two overarching research perspectives on cooperative media practices: Infrastructures and their publics on the one hand and publics and their infrastructures on the other. The conference scrutinizes publics and infrastructures not separately but in their constitutive interrelations, which allow publics and infrastructures to come into being in the first place. The conference takes a praxeological approach, discussing historical and current processes of cooperative media practices as infrastructuring and making public(s). It involves a wide range of disciplines including Anthropology, Media Studies, History, Social Sciences, and Informatics. The conference assembles national and international experts who contribute to research and theories on ‘analog’ and ‘digital’ forms of the production and design of different publics and infrastructures. Media Studies understood in this broad way builds on concepts of networked issue publics or societies (Noortje Marres) and experimental publics and cooperative thought (Paul Kockelman). It opens up new perspectives on publics and their media infrastructures. === About "Media of Cooperation" During the last two decades, media practices have become recognizable as practices of cooperation in discourses around digital participation and digital cultures, social media, and the dissolution of boundaries between production, distribution, and reception. These diagnoses of the present that concentrate on digital media only make obvious what is in fact valid for all media. Starting point for the Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" thus is the recognition that all media are cooperatively produced conditions of cooperation. Media practices and techniques emerge out of the reciprocal production and provision of common goals, means, and procedures. The Collaborative Research Center prefers a perspective and logic of “cooperation without consensus” (Susan Leigh Star) to an a priori orientation toward consensus. The latter bias is meant to be circumvented but consensus can nevertheless still be an objective of cooperative media practices. === Keynotes + Program Keynote I | Noortje Marres (Warwick) Infrastructuring Publics or Societies? On Street Trials as Experiments in Interpretation Keynote II | Paul Kockelman (Yale) Witchful Thinking: Experimental Publics, Cooperative Thought, and Mediated Renderings of the Real The program further includes 5 panel sessions (on In/Transparency, Work/Places, Mobilities, Standardizations, and Academia), two panel discussions, and a design exhibition. The full program is available online: http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ === Registration + Contact Main conference language will be English. *Free* online registration requested by October 31, 2016. URL: http://sfb1187.uni-siegen.de/annual-conference-2016/ Email: annualconference2016@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de === Conference Organizers Matthias Korn, Thomas Ludwig, Wolfgang Reißmann, Tobias Röhl, David Sittler University of Siegen, Collaborative Research Center 1187: Media of Cooperation -- Dr. Matthias Korn e-Science / Computer-Supported Cooperative Research DFG-SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen Institute for Information Systems, Fak. III, University of Siegen Phone: +49 271 740-2293 Cell: +49 173 7232 198 Office: US-D 102 Mail: matthias.korn@uni-siegen.de Twitter: @matsch_o0 Web: http://mkorn.binaervarianz.de/