Materiality of Cooperation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Pre-Face

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Materiality of Cooperation—An Introduction

      • Sebastian Gießmann, Tobias Röhl, Ronja Trischler

      Pages 3-26

3. Before the Situation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. ‘Harmony, Not Discord’: Cooperation in the Office of the Larkin Company Around 1900

      • Christine Schnaithmann

      Pages 29-48

   3. On the Infrastructure of the Slaughterhouse

      • Christian Kassung

      Pages 49-67

   4. Version Control. On the Software-Based Coordination of Co-laboration

      • Marcus Burkhardt

      Pages 69-88

4. During the Situation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Chains of Co-operation in the 1940s: Working on the Air Situation Picture

      • Christoph Borbach, Tristan Thielmann

      Pages 91-130

   3. On Identification: Theory and History of a Media Practice

      • Sebastian Giessmann

      Pages 131-153

   4. Routines of Cooperation in Creative Work

      • Hannes Krämer

      Pages 155-171

   5. Bodies/Technology on Standby: The Importance of Cooperative Waiting for Digital Work

      • Ronja Trischler

      Pages 173-191

   6. Strapping and Stacking: An Ethnography in Search of a New Medium

      • Götz Bachmann

      Pages 193-212

5. Beyond the Situation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Creating Trans-Situativity: Air Travel and Its Media

      • Larissa Schindler

      Pages 215-235

   3. Varieties of Trans-Sequentiality: Diagnostics of Contemporary Capacities for Problem-Work, Developed from Ethnographies of the State

      • Thomas Scheffer

      Pages 237-263

   4. Ecologies of Media Practices

      • Petra Löffler

      Pages 265-283

6. Post-Scripta

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. Socio-Material Practices in Irritating Situations

      • Jörg Potthast

      Pages 287-306

   3. The Irreducibility of Technical Skills: Before and After Science

      • Erhard Schüttpelz

      Pages 307-325

The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or without consensus, in co-presence or absence of the involved actors in distributed situations. Artefacts, bodies, texts and infrastructures are the media that make cooperation possible. They enable and configure reciprocal accomplishments – and are themselves created through media practices in cooperative situations.

• Materiality
• Cooperation
• Media studies
• Sociology of media
• Socio-materiality
• Media anthropology
• Practice theory
• praxeology

• Fakultät I: Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

  Sebastian Gießmann

• Zentrum Bildung und Digitaler Wandel, PH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Tobias Röhl

• Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  Ronja Trischler

• Philosophische Fakultät: Institut für Ethnologie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

  Martin Zillinger

Dr. Sebastian Gießmann is Reader in Media Theory at the Media Studies Department, University of Siegen. His research focuses on relations between digital media, practice and cultural techniques.


Prof. Dr. Tobias Röhl is Professor of Digital Learning and Teaching at the Zurich University of Teacher Education. He researches how technology mediates interaction in the fields of education and public transport.


Dr. Ronja Trischler is a Post-Doc Researcher in Sociology at the Technical University of Dortmund. Her research concerns collaborative digital practices, with a focus on visuality and materiality of interaction.


Prof. Dr. Martin Zillinger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Speaker of the Center for Media Studies and Modernity Research at the University of Cologne. His major field research has been in Morocco on trance mediums and new media.In his publications he addresses issues at the intersection of anthropology, media studies and philosophy.

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