Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies

当前，在德国传媒学研究中，实践理论问题越来越多地被提出，特别是那些联系和区分新旧媒体研究和媒体技术的问题。这一讨论是在文化、社会和工程科学之间的长期国际研究进展之后进行的，这些研究进展仍然需要从理论上重新考虑媒体，因为它们在当今的媒体动力学背景下具有相关性[S]。“联系与分裂：媒体研究的实践转向”研讨会将以英语进行，通过讨论相关的共同问题来促进德国媒体研究的发展，同时向国际观众展示德国媒体研究。将重点放在联系和分离的基本做法上是非常适合这一项目的。媒体分离和同时连接：它们充当原本互不相连的实体之间的中间人，也是一个中间人，既起到调停作用，又起到保护不同实体的作用。如果我们在行动之前和之后对媒体进行描述，我们指的是个人和组织、自动化和人工制品、信号和铭文，我们似乎很容易提到他们的明显缺陷/能力。但在两者之间--被困在行为中，或者更确切地说：在互动中--媒体本身似乎正好分布在所涉及的材料、符号和个人实体的混合中。因此，对这种“连接与分割”关系的经验性和历史性的调查导致了一场名副其实的“媒体研究的实践转向”，这是文化研究和社会科学中更全面且往往颇具争议性的“实践转向”的一部分。研讨会通过以下几个部分探讨了所描述的动态：《从实践学的角度看媒体史》，关于媒体实践历史调查的机会和困难的系统观点；《宗教和宗教一样：宗教和媒体研究的实践转向》，论述世俗化和宗教媒体实践及其概念化之间的关系；？连接和划分媒体理论：性别、后殖民和其他机构“，《关于德国媒体研究和国际的行为学转变》和相关转变，可视为特殊/主观/边缘和/或一般/普遍/正常；关于媒体理论与实践理论目前的关系(在一段较长的非关系之后)，关于科学上的紧张、混合、调解和净化努力的问题，可以通过关注媒体实践及其对媒体和实践理论的部分融合来预期。

Currently practice theoretical questions are raised more and more often in German media studies, in particular those which connect and divide old and new media research and media technologies. This discussion follows long-term international research developments between cultural-, social- and engineering sciences, that still have to be media theoretically reconsidered according to their relevance in the context of today¿s media dynamics. The symposium »Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies«, will be conducted in English to promote the development of German media studies through the discussion of relevant common issues, simultaneously presenting German media research for an international audience. The focus on the essential practices of connecting and dividing is ideally suited for this project.Media divide and connect simultaneously: they act as intermediaries between otherwise disconnected entities, and as a »middle« and that mediates, but also shields different entities from each other. If we give accounts of media before and after the action, we refer to persons and organizations, automatisms and artifacts, signals and inscriptions, and we seem to find it easy to refer to their distinct dis/abilities. But in between - caught in the act or rather: within the interaction - the »middle« of media itself seems to be distributed right across the mix of material, semiotic and personal entities involved. The empirical and historical investigation of this janus-faced relationship of »connect and divide« has thus resulted in what may be called a veritable »practice turn in media studies«, being part of a more comprehensive and often quite controversial »practice turn« in cultural studies and the social sciences. The symposium confronts the described dynamics by the following sections: »Media History from a Praxeological Perspective«, a systematic perspective on opportunities and difficulties of the historical investigation of media practices; »Religion Is as Religion Does: The Practice Turn in Religion and Media Studies«, on the relationship between secularising and religious media practices and their conceptualization; »Connecting and Dividing Media Theories: Gender, Post_Colonial, and Other Agencies«, on the praxeological shift of German media research and international »media studies« and the related transformations, what can be regarded as particular/subjective/marginal and/or general/universal/normal; »The Current Relationship (After a Longer Non-Relationship) of Media Theory and Practice Theory«, on the question, which scientific tensions, hybridizations, mediations and purification efforts occur and can be expected by focusing media practices and their partial fusions of media and practice theory.