Mirko Tobias Schäfer / Assistant Professor
University of Utrecht Department for Media and Culture Studies
Date October 2015 / Category Lectures
Participation in a Networked and Datafied Society, guest lecture at Interface Culture, Kunstuniversität Linz, 13 October 2015
Leaving the Comfort Zone. Criticizing the Critique of Social Media, lecture at The Posthuman Glossary, #3 Digital Activism, 11 June 2015, Utrecht.
Date December 2014 / Category Lectures
Monitoring the Online Public Sphere. Control and Censorship in Social Media, paper presentation at conference Remote Control. Violence, Containment, Technology, 12 december 2014, Utrecht University.
Date November 2014 / Category Lectures
Can a Tweet in New York cause a Shitstorm in Amsterdam. Social Media and Spreadability, lecture at Leiden Global, 27 November 2014.
Permanent Reiteration. User Generated Content as ReWhatever. Keynote lecture at Summer School Hamburg Repeat, Remix, Remediate. Universität Hamburg, 30 July 2013.
De stad gezien door social media. Hoe social media data verrassende inzichten geven in de stad, lecture together with Thomas Boeschoten at Netherlands Smart Governance Congres, 18 June 2015.
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The Datafication of the Public Sphere. Keynote lecture at BastardCROWD [mobile], AILab Vienna, 7 May 2015.
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Date December 2014 / Category Lectures
How Data-Driven Research and Digital Methods Challenge Research Practice and Ethics; paper presentation at Workshop Internet Research 2014, Utrecht University, 11 December 2014
Policing the Social Media. Control and Communication in a networked Public Sphere, paper presentation at Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space, Netherlands Royal Academy of Science, Amsterdam, 20 June 2014
with Matthias Tarasiewicz: Novel Approaches of Research in the Arts and the Humanities. Lecture at Methods and Materials Seminar at University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 28.6.2013.