This volume conceives cooperation in broad terms as any form of mutual making, in which goals, means, and procedures are seen as ongoing accomplishments. From the exchanges of goods or information, to the interactions between bodies or organizations, and the coordination between colleagues, competitors, friends or foes. Mutually making the conditions of mutual making entails translating heterogeneous interests, negotiating conflicting values and articulating distributed activities. On the one hand, the contributions cover different notions and concepts of cooperation in diverse fields of study: from the mundane cooperation of everyday life to collective endeavors within specific domains. On the other hand, the contributions share a focus on the practices of making cooperation possible through cooperatively creating the conditions for cooperation itself. Seeing cooperative media both as a condition and consequence of cooperation, the volume sheds light on a general feature of media, technologies and instruments that both enable and constrain the collaboration between heterogeneous social worlds, with and without consensus.
Author(s): Clemens Eisenmann, Kathrin Englert, Cornelius Schubert, Ehler Voss
Series: Medien der Kooperation – Media of Cooperation
Publisher: Springer VS
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 216
City: Wiesbaden
Contents
Introduction
1 Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making. An Introduction
References
Prescriptum
2 Reinventing the Wheel of Media Theory
2.1 Classical Media Theory
2.2 Classical Media Theory in the Digital Age
2.3 The Challenge of Symmetry in Media Theory
2.4 After the Practice Turn: Media History
2.5 After the Practice Turn: Theorizing the Computer
2.6 After the Practice Turn: Theorizing the Media
2.7 Conclusion
References
Part I Implementing Information Systems
3 Meta-Infrastructure: Pneumatic Tube Systems, Infrastructural Entanglements and Cooperation in Enterprises from the Late 19th to the 21st Century
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Varieties of Pneumatic Tubes
3.3 Varieties of Enterprises
3.4 Interpretations of Modernity
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Patents and Licences: Basic Elements of Cooperation in the Early History of Electronic Data Processing in Europe
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Patents, Licences and Cooperation
4.3 Background of Magnetic Storage of Data
4.3.1 Gerhard Dirks: A Non-professional Inventor with Practical Needs
4.3.2 The Patents D 91,234 IX/43a (Storage Equipment) and D 91,194 IX/43c (Storage of Data)
4.3.3 Magnetic Storage of Data – Plural Research and Uncertain Patents
4.4 Negotiating Patents and Licences
4.4.1 Prior to 1954: Turning A Patent Application into a Licence Agreement
4.4.2 1954–1957: Monopoly Agreement Dirks/Siemag
4.4.3 Since 1958: Changing Environments – Plural Agreements
4.4.4 1960–1966: The End of the Patent
4.5 Conclusion
References
Part II Doing Dasein
5 Intimate Pictures
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Absence, Presence and Transnational Social Relationships
5.3 ‘Participating’ while Absent in Transnational Sibling Relationships
5.4 Absent Presence through Photographic Practices in Transnational Marital Relationships
5.5 Conclusion – Mediating Absence and Presence
References
6 Mainstreaming Zoom: Covid-19, Social Distancing, and the Rise of Video-Mediated Remote Cooperation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Re-Infrastructuring Disrupted Conditions of Cooperation
6.2.1 Interruption of Cooperative Practices
6.2.2 Between Ad hoc Infrastructuring and Infrastructural Inertia
6.3 How to Infrastructure Remote Collaboration: The Role of Guides
6.3.1 Staging the Tile View or How to Prepare for Video Calls
6.3.2 New Methods, Formats, and Procedures for Video-mediated Remote Cooperation
6.4 Zoom Builds Cooperation and Cooperation Builds Zoom
6.4.1 The Topological Reorientation of Cooperation Through Digitalization or How Zoom became a Household Name
6.4.2 Under Construction: Zoom’s Precipitous Transformation and the Evolution of Videoconferencing
6.5 Conclusion
References
Part III Cooperating Corpora
7 The Passport as a Medium of Movement
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Bureaucracy as a Means of Negotiating Cooperation: From Local Agreements to Central Registers
7.2.1 The Passport as a Letter of Recommendation
7.2.2 The Importance of Citizenship in Modern Nation-states
7.2.3 The Demand for Central Registers and Methods Standardisation
7.2.4 The Centrality of the Finnish Population Information System
7.3 Bodily Traces in Passports
7.3.1 The Pre-photographic Period—Nineteenth Century to First World War
7.3.2 The Introduction of Photographs—First World War to the 1950s
7.3.3 1960–2005: Structuring of the Face
7.3.4 2006 and After: The Machine-Readable Biometric Passport
7.4 Discussion: Four Modes of Cooperation
7.5 Conclusions
References
8 Entangling Bodies and Objects in the Air
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Methodology
8.3 Building a Vehicular Unit
8.4 Accommodating
8.5 Difficult Co-operations
8.6 Detaching
8.7 Conclusion
References
Part IV Participating and Privacy
9 Information Control and Trust in the Context of Digital Technologies
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Interconnectedness
9.3 Information Control
9.4 IT-Security
9.5 Trust
9.6 Conclusion
References
10 Mutually Designing Domestic IT Applications with Older Adults
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Related Work
10.3 Project Setting and Methods Used
10.4 Experience-based Participatory Design Workshops (EbPDW)
10.5 Findings
10.5.1 Note-taking: Memory and Repetition
10.5.2 Sharing Material
10.5.3 Data Transfer Between Devices
10.5.4 Ever-changing Safety Concerns
10.5.5 Giving Google Drive a Shot as a Collaborative Learning Tool
10.5.6 Mixed Purposes of Google Drive: Both Learning Tool and Probe for Data Collection
10.6 Discussion
10.7 Conclusion
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