GRK 1479: Automatisms - Emerging Structures in Information Technology, Media and Culture

自动主义被定义为在很大程度上超越了有意识控制的过程。心理学发现了个体行为的自动化；社会学分析了习惯化和常规化的结构；经济学家认为市场是自动化的。实际上，在参与者的背后，自动化会产生新的结构；这就是为什么它们成为一种有趣的开发模式，与有意识的设计和计划的过程保持一段距离。自动化似乎尤其在分布式系统中运行；它们是技术和准技术程序。同时，它们与技术自动机的概念相冲突。研究培训小组邀请对媒体、信息技术和文化领域的自动化进行分析的论文项目；方法应包括对具体材料、理论工作或工程的分析。研究培训小组的设计是跨学科的：参加培训的顾问来自社会科学、媒体研究、文学和电影研究以及计算机科学；申请者应拥有这些领域之一的学位。

Automatisms are defined as processes that largely develop beyond conscious control. Psychology has detected automatisms in individual behaviour; sociology analyses structures of habitualisation and conventionalisation; economists consider the market as an automatism. Virtually behind the backs of those involved, automatisms generate new structures; this is what makes them an interesting model of development, situated at a distance from conscious designs and planned processes. Automatisms seem to operate particularly in distributed systems; they are technical and quasi-technical procedures. Simultaneously, they conflict with the concept of technical automatons. The Research Training Group invites dissertation projects that analyse automatisms in the field of media, information technology and culture; approaches should include the analysis of concrete materials, theoretical work or engineering. The Research Training Group is designed to be interdisciplinary: Participant advisors are from the social sciences, media studies, literature and film studies as well as computer science; the applicants are expected to have a degree in one of these fields.