Florian Sprenger – författare

Media – old or new, in the cloud or underground – constitutes the very condition in which our world takes shape. Media is reshaped continuously, marked for both the profound effects it produces and the acceleration it exhibits. It is the site in which we signal some of the most pressing issues we face in our ever-widening technologized world.

Written by authors working at the forefront of media theory today, this book charts an original and compelling path across various media forms, bringing to light the wonderful yet persistently unsettling role that media plays, and will continue to play, in the making of our future. It not only establishes media as a serious and interdisciplinary concept, but also demonstrates how this concept can be developed beyond the current limited form and content dichotomy.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Media – old or new, in the cloud or underground – constitutes the very condition in which our world takes shape. Media is reshaped continuously, marked for both the profound effects it produces and the acceleration it exhibits. It is the site in which we signal some of the most pressing issues we face in our ever-widening technologized world.

Written by authors working at the forefront of media theory today, this book charts an original and compelling path across various media forms, bringing to light the wonderful yet persistently unsettling role that media plays, and will continue to play, in the making of our future. It not only establishes media as a serious and interdisciplinary concept, but also demonstrates how this concept can be developed beyond the current limited form and content dichotomy.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Das Internet der Dinge wird als neue Stufe der Digitalisierung und Zukunft unseres computergestützten Weltzugangs angepriesen: Unsichtbar, smart, miniaturisiert und allgegenwärtig sollen Gadgets und Devices unseren Alltag durchdringen. Die Vernetzung der Dinge durch Chips, Tags und Sensoren transformiert unser Verhältnis zur Technik und verschafft den Dingen einen neuen Ort in der Welt.Dieser Band versammelt Erstübersetzungen paradigmatischer englischer Texte sowie aktuelle Analysen deutschsprachiger Autoren und liefert einen Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Diskussion zur Geschichte, zur Epistemologie, zu Techniken und zu Anwendungen des Internets der Dinge.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Natascha Adamowsky, John Seely Brown, Mercedes Bunz, Ian Bogost, Ina Bolinski, Keller Easterling, Christoph Engemann, Jennifer Gabrys, Sebastian Gießmann, Kai Hofmann, Gerrit Hornung, Sabina Jeschke, Timo Kaerlein, Linus Neumann, Jussi Parikka, Stefan Rieger, Jens Schröter, Michael Seemann, Florian Sprenger und Mark Weiser.