Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies

Research Interest

Mirko is researching culture constitutional aspects of computer technology and software. He is interested in the phenomenon of online collaboration, massive user interactions and the Internet as a global information infrastructure. Mirko publishes articles on modified electronic consumer goods, software development and the socio-political debates on information and communication technology. He develops the term of the extended culture industry to describe the cultural production and intertwindness of the plurality of users, corporate companies and communities. He is interested in Actor Network Theory, Science & Technology Studies and the extended understanding of the Dispositif developed by Frank Kessler and the Utrecht Media Research Program (UMR).

Date June 2004 Category Theory

2000 - 2010 Mirko Tobias Schäfer

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