How to experimentally investigate changing dynamics and orders of situations due to scopic media?
24.06.2014
Project of the priority program "Mediatized Worlds" conducts sociological experiment
The "Scopic Media" project of the priority program 1505 "Mediatized Worlds" examines different cases where so-called "scopic media" are installed. Scopic media are screen-based technologies for monitoring and projection that render distant and invisible phenomena situationally present and hence open up new and remote spaces and information worlds, i.e., spaces of observation. It is assumed that scopic media transform conventional face-to-face situations fundamentally into mediatized "synthetic situations" augmented by additional information.
One of the project's aims is to overcome canonic methodological choreographies and to experimentally examine the changes generated by the usage of scopic media on the level of the social situation and the interaction order. To this end, the "Scopic Media" project is conducting a sociological experiment now where social situations are augmented with additional information from social media in a controlled manner and are made visually experienceable.
The experiment is conducted by the DFG-funded project "Scopic Media" situated at the Department of Sociology at the University of Constance.
Cooperation partners are:
Please find further information on the experiment here (in German).
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