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
Governing and Policing Social Media: Exploring Control Dispositives of Online Platforms, paper presentation at NECS Annual Conference 2013: Media Politics - Political Media, 20. June 2013, Prague.
The Art of Governance in Social Media: How Governmentality Shapes the Private/Public Spheres Online, paper presentation at Media in Transition 8, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 5 May 2013
Date September 2012 / Category Lectures
Dangerous Networks? Discussing Security & Internet, lecture & workshop at the Netherlands Defence Academy , 27 September 2012
User Participation in Cultural Heritage, lecture at Europeana General Plenary 2012 'Connecting Society Through Culture', 14 June 2012, Leuven (B)
Date November 2011 / Category Lectures
Programmierte Partizipation. Zum Spannungsfeld von Appropriation und Design in populären Web-Plattformen, lecture at Ringvorlesung "Grenzenlose Enthüllungen? - Medien zwischen Öffnung und Schließung", Media Studies Innsbruck 24 November 2011, Innsbruck (A)
Questioning Transparancy. Reviewing Media Practices of Retrieving Information from Open Repositories. Paper presentation at International Workshop Succesful Cooperation at Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Duisburg, 13 May 2013.
Date December 2012 / Category Lectures
Praising Participatory Culture, Limiting User Agency, paper presentation at Mutamorphosis Conference 2012, 6-8 December 2012, Prague.
See a video of the presentation
In Search of the Enlightenment App. Media Technology and Media Practice in the Public Sphere, paper presentation at The Citizen Scientist on the Move Conference, 25 June 2012, Utrecht (NL)
Date December 2011 / Category Lectures
Challenges for a Participatory Culture, keynote lecture delivered at the EU Access to Culture Platform workshop 'Access to Culture in the Digital Era', 15 December 2011, Brussels
See a video recording of the lecture at YouTube
Date November 2011 / Category Lectures
Creating with the Crowd, panel discussion together with Ana Domb (chair), Bruno Natal (Queremos, Brazil), Timo Vuorensola (Wreckamovie, Finland) and Caitlin Boyle (Film Sprout) at Futures of Entertainment 5, 11 November 2011, MIT, Cambridge, MA
See a recording of the panel at MIT TechTV