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This project is one of six individual projects that cooperate closely within the DFG/FWF Research Unit “The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider”, established in 2016. The Research Unit’s main objective is to analyse the scientific practice of experiments that are currently conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, in Geneva. The Research Unit has forged a unique cooperation between physicists, philosophers, historians, and social scientists with the aim of collectively investigating how physicists produce knowledge in LHC experiments. The present project, which investigates these experiments from the perspective of social studies of science, is benefiting greatly from this interdisciplinary setting.In the last decades, experiments in particle physics have undergone dramatic changes toward increasing centralisation, size, and complexity. This project is motivated by the thesis that these changes have induced important transformations in work organisation and thus affect how, and under which conditions, physicists produce knowledge. In this context, the project raises two important questions: (1) how do scientists go about generating new results and (2) what do they do to ensure that these results are reliable and credible?Co-PI of the project: Prof. Peter Mättig, Physics Department, Univ. Bonn.

• Universität Bonn
• Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• TU Berlin
• University of South Carolina
• RWTH Aachen
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted every aspect of our lives, including the media industry. With the crisis creating great uncertainty, the media industry has played a crucial role in providing up-to-date information and entertainment during times of quarantine and social distancing. However, the pandemic has also hit the media industry hard, resulting in a loss of advertising investment and increased unemployment rates.As a consequence of such difficult times, the Austrian media industry faces unique challenges regarding (re-)financing its products and searching for new monetization models, mainly due to changes in user behavior in the digital and online sphere for both news and entertainment sectors. These challenges added to the existing problems of the media industry in Austria, where media companies were already struggling with shrinking revenues and declining readership even before the pandemic.Through this research project, we want to understand how the Austrian media industry has reacted to these challenges and the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on it. Thus, the project aims to record, analyze, differentiate, and compare the transformation processes initiated, forced, or accelerated by the pandemic and evaluate its economic, management, and cultural implications for media development in Austria.

• CMC - Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies
• Medienhaus Wien

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In einem interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt gehen Andrea Dorothea Bührmann (Universität Göttingen, Institut für Diversitätsforschung) und Larissa Krainer (Universität Klagenfurt, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) der Frage nach, welche normativen Begründungen zu Diversität ins Feld geführt werden, die dazu führen, dass Diversität als positiv oder negativ verstanden wird. Methodisch erfolgt dies durch eine Diskursanalyse von Schlüsseltexten zur Diversitätsforschung aus dem wissenschaftlichen Spezialdiskurs mit Bezug auf Foucault und Jäger. In theoretischer Hinsicht werden die reflexive Diskursanalyse (Bührmann) und die Prozessethik (Krainer) zusammengeführt. Das Projekt, das vom Forschungsrat der Universität Klagenfurt gefördert wird, soll im Zeitraum von Juni 2023 bis Dezember 2024 durchgeführt werden. Die Ergebnisse sollen danach in unterschiedlichen Publikationen und bei Tagungen vorgestellt werden.

• Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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The overall artistic and scientific objective of the proposed project is to better understand and use the interaction between humans and drones through experimenting with novel approaches at the intersection of performing arts and engineering. Through this, the project addresses contemporary issues in social and cultural theory concerning material agency and performance on an experimental and experiential level. The project connects three research areas: (1) drone research, (2) performing arts-based research and (3) New Materialism and Posthumanism.The project aims at (1) exploring the theatre as laboratory for human-drone interaction while using Europe’s largest drone hall as a theatre stage and (2) examining drones as actors and the interplay of human and non-human actors in an artificial, but artistic context. Therefore, three scenic arrangements will be realised as experimental laboratories between theatre, technology and cultural media studies, which serve to investigate the interaction between drones and actors as equal actors in a performative process. The three focal points of the project are (a) surveillance, (b) swarm and (c) mediation.The arts-based research sees itself as a creative experimental arrangement to generate new questions about the relationship and interaction between drones and humans and to develop a new dispositif of the theatre.

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