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Dokument Type: Periodical Part
metadata.dc.title: Tech Imaginations
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Institute: Fakultät I Philosophische Fakultät 
Free keywords: Imaginary, Media, Society, Internet, Technology, Imaginär, Medien, Gesellschaft, Technologie
Dewey Decimal Classification: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
GHBS-Clases: KNZX
KNZZ
Issue Date: 2023
Publish Date: 2023
Journal: Navigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 
Source: Navigationen Jg. 23, H.2, 2023. Siegen: universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen
Abstract: 
Technologies and especially media technologies are pervasive in modern societies. But even more omnipresent are the imaginaries of modern technologies – what technologies are thought to be capable of or what effects they are supposed to have. These imaginations reveal a lot of the political and ideological self-descriptions of societies, hence the (techno-)imaginary also functions as a kind of epistemic tool.
Concepts of the imaginary therefore have experienced an increasing attention in cultural theory and the social sciences in recent years. In particular, work from political philosophy, but also approaches from science and technology studies (STS) or communication and media studies are worth mentioning here. The term "techno-imagination", coined by Vilém Flusser in the early 1990s, refers to the close interconnection of (digital) media and imaginations, whose coupling can not only be understood as a driver of future technology via fictional discourses (e.g. science fiction), but much more fundamentally also as a constitutive element of society and sociality itself, as Castoriadis has argued.
In the first part of the issue several theoretical contributions add new aspects to the discussion of socio-technical imaginaries, while in the second part a workshop held in January 2022 at the CAIS in Bochum is documented, in which the case of the imaginaries of “Future Internets” was discussed.
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Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter, Christoph Borbach, Max Kanderske und Prof. Dr. Benjamin Beil sind Herausgeber der Reihe. Die Herausgeber*innen der einzelnen Hefte sind renommierte Wissenschaftler*innen aus dem In- und Ausland.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10428
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-26397
URI: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2639
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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