Traffic ─ Media As Infrastructures and Cultural Practices

Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power. Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sutzl, Hartmut Winkler

Marion Naser-Lather, Dr. phil., is postdoc researcher at the Institute of European Ethnology/ Cultural Science at Philipps University Marburg, Germany, and board member of the “Society for Social Responsibility in Science” (GVW e.V.). Her research interests include activist movement studies, Mediterranean studies, net cultures, and infrastructure. Christoph Neubert, Dr. phil., is lecturer for media history at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and senior member of the research training group “Automatisms.” His research interests include media theory and history, traffic and logistics, and the history of ecology.