Interrogating Datafication

Marcus Burkhardt is a lecturer in the media studies department at the University of Siegen. Together with Karin Knorr Cetina, he heads the project "Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy" in the SFB 1187 "Media of Cooperation". He has a background in media studies, philosophy, and computer science and received his doctorate at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen with a thesis on the media theory of digital databases. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, especially the logi(sti)cs of database technologies, big data, and algorithmic media as well as digital methods. Daniela van Geenen is a PhD-candidate at the DFG Locating Media Graduate School (University of Siegen). She investigates "critical technical practice" in the context of sensor-based technologies and sensing infrastructures locating, making accessible, and governing everyday life, urban spaces, and practices. She is also a lecturer in data journalistic practice and data visualization at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. Her research interests include critical data and software studies, digital methods, and tool criticism. Carolin Gerlitz is a professor of digital media and methods at the University of Siegen and member of the Digital Methods Initiative Amsterdam. She is co-speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation" and the DFG Graduate School "Locating Media". Her research interests are social media and platform studies, app studies, inventive digital methods, sensor media, quantification, automation, and issue mapping. Sam Hind is a research associate in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen. His research currently revolves around sensor-based navigation as part of the "Navigation in Online/Offline Spaces" project. He received his PhD in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include digital navigation,