Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies

当前，德国媒体研究的实践理论问题越来越多地被提出，尤其是新旧媒体研究和媒体技术的联系和划分问题。这一讨论遵循了文化、社会和工程科学之间的长期国际研究发展，这些研究仍然需要根据它们在当今媒体动态背景下的相关性，从理论上重新考虑。研讨会“连接与分裂：媒介研究的实践转向”将以英语进行，通过讨论相关的共同问题来促进德国媒介研究的发展，同时向国际观众展示德国媒介研究。关注连接和分隔的基本实践非常适合这个项目。媒体同时分裂和连接：它们在其他不相连的实体之间充当中介，并作为“中间”进行中介，但也保护不同实体彼此隔离。如果我们描述行动前后的媒体，我们指的是个人和组织，自动装置和人工制品，信号和铭文，我们似乎很容易提到他们不同的缺陷/能力。但在两者之间——被困在行动中，或者更确切地说：在互动中——媒体本身的“中间”似乎正好分布在材料、符号学和个人实体的混合中。因此，对这种“连接与分裂”的双面关系的实证和历史调查导致了所谓的真正的“媒体研究的实践转向”，成为文化研究和社会科学中更全面且经常颇具争议的“实践转向”的一部分。研讨会将通过以下部分来面对所描述的动态：“行动学视角下的媒体史”，这是对媒体实践历史调查的机遇和困难的系统视角；《宗教即宗教：宗教与媒体研究中的实践转向》，关于世俗化与宗教媒体实践之间的关系及其概念化；“媒介理论的连接和划分：性别、后殖民和其他机构”，关于德国媒介研究和国际“媒介研究”的行为学转变以及相关的转变，什么可以被视为特殊/主观/边缘和/或一般/普遍/正常；“媒介理论与实践理论的当前关系（在较长时间的非关系之后）”，关于关注媒介实践及其对媒介和实践理论的部分融合所发生的科学紧张，杂交，调解和净化努力的问题。

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.