Zeit: 10:00 - 16:00
Ort: Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen, AE-A 101/102
Workshop of the DFG Graduate School ?Locating Media?, University of Siegen
Michael Lynch (Cornell University):
Accountability, Ethnomethodology, and the Problem of Expertise
Christian Sandvig (University of Michigan):
Toward an Ethnomethodology of Algorithmic Media
What is social about Social Media and to what extent does the Social Web exhibit the structural properties of analogous document-based organizations? Social media are distinguished from all other media mainly through their increased ?accountability?. The Internet made documentation practices visible that long remained hidden to media studies. This is connected to the medial visualization and simplification of ?member?s accounts?, but also to new forms of mass personal communication. This means that self-documentation practices enter into public focus and, with them, the eligibility and predictability of media actions. Does this make the speculative aspects of media an intrinsic component of social bookkeeping? Is the current interest in ?doing accounts? part of a praxeological turn in media studies? The increasing importance of praxeology is opening up a new interface between social and media theory.
Against this background, the workshop is attempting to make the sociological term ?accountability? account-able for the analysis of media practices. Harold Garfinkel?s ethnomethodology understands ?accountability? as an expression for the observation that social actions are already rendered mutually observable, allocatable, describable and explicable through their occurrence. The interactive, situated and medial demonstration of actions as well as its cooperative modality ? in short: medial allocation and delegated actions ? are combined by Harold Garfinkel in the term ?accountability?. Therefore, ?accountability? will be discussed in the workshop from three perspectives: (1.) in a media-historical and theory-historical discussion on the development of the term in Garfinkel?s work (for example, through his recourse to bookkeeping and micro-describing procedures), (2.) in a discussion of the common foundations of social and media theory (in particular, in connection with ethnomethodology), and, (3.) through an examination in current media processes.
Speakers are Michael Lynch, Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, and Christian Sandvig, Associate Professor of Information & Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Introduction by Erhard Schüttpelz and Tristan Thielmann.
A Workshop of the DFG Graduate School 1769 ?Locating Media?, Scientific Coordinator Dr. Gabriele Schabacher, Am Eichenhang 50, D-57076 Siegen, Phone: +49 (0)271 740 4518, www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/
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