Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
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Date January 2013 / Category Publications
with Johannes Paßmann and Thomas Boeschoten: The Gift of the Gab: Retweet Cartels and Gift Economies on Twitter. In Weller, K., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., and Puschmann, C. (eds.) Twitter and Society, New York: Peter Lang.
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Date May 2012 / Category Publications
Vorprogrammierte Partizipation. Zum Spannungsfeld von Appropriation und Design in Social Media Plattformen. In: Uta Rußmann, Andreas Beinsteiner, Theo Hug, Heike Ortner (eds.) Grenzenlose Enthüllungen? – Medien zwischen Öffnung und Schließung. Innsbruck: IUP, 2012
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Date March 2012 / Category Publications
with Nikos Overheul and Thomas Boeschoten: Politiek in 140 tekens. Een analyse van twitterende Nederlandse politici. In: Christian van 't Hof, Jelte Timmer and Rinie van Est (eds.) 2012, Voorgeprogrammeerd. Hoe Internet ons leven leid. Boom: The Hague
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Date September 2010 / Category Publications
Programmierte Gesellschaft? Zur Konstitution inhärenter Partizipation in Web Applikationen. In: Dieter Mersch (ed.). 2011 Das Programm der Medien. Akademie Verlag (in print)
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Date March 2009 / Category Publications
Date December 2012 / Category Publications
Instabile (Gegen)Öffentlichkeiten. Online Plattformen als hybride Foren gesellschaftspolitischer Debatten (Unstable Counter/Publics. Online Platforms as Hybrid Spaces of Socio-political Debate). In Pias, Claus (ed): Neue Medien, Neue Massen (Proceedings DFG Research Seminar 2012), Berlin: Akademie Verlag (in print).
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Date March 2012 / Category Publications
\run subversion.exe. Mythos und Praxis subversiver Medien-Nutzung. In: Doreen Hartmann, Inga Lemke and Jessica Nitsche (eds.) Interventionen. Grenzüberschreitungen in Ästhetik, Politik und Ökonomie. Munich: Fink 2012
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Date February 2011 / Category Publications
Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Updates and expanded version of my dissertation, including a chapter on 'social media'.
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Date May 2009 / Category Publications
Date December 2008 / Category Publications
Participation Inside? User Activities between Design and Appropriation. In Marianne van den Boomen, Sybille Lammes, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Joost Raessens, Mirko Tobias Schaefer: Digital Material. Tracing New Media in Everday Life and Technology, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009, pp. 147-158.