Grounding Digitalization: Technologies, Materialities, and Spaces - Paperback

by Regula Valérie Burri (Editor), Hanna Göbel (Editor), Inga Reimers (Editor)

Digitalization is usually perceived as an invisible process and its cultural embeddedness as well as its material, spatial, and environmental grounding are often neglected. However, digital technologies and transformations are shaped not only by cultural values, practices, and imaginaries, but also by network infrastructures and spatial orders. They consume environmental resources and cause high carbon dioxide emissions and electronic waste. At the same time, these materialities intervene in spaces, thereby reconfiguring socio-spatial arrangements. The contributors to this volume analyze digitalization from a grounding perspective that explores involved cultural practices, technologies, materialities, and spaces.

Author Biography

Regula Valérie Burri is a professor in Science and Technology Studies at HafenCity Universität (HCU Hamburg) and a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research areas include (visual) knowledge, science and art, and cultures and the governance of science and technology.

Hanna Göbel is a professor for Methods of Urban Practice at HafenCity Universität (HCU Hamburg). Her research focuses on the intersection of urban studies, body and cultural theory, assemblage urbanism, and ethnographic knowledge productions.

Inga Reimers (Dr.) is a research associate in the BMEL-funded project "NEON (Sustainability on Demand)" at Universität Regensburg. Her research areas include commensality, futures of work, rural areas, ethnographic methodology, and (non-consensual) collaboration.