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 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'.
Read a review at Times Higher Education
Read a review at Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (German)
Order the book at AUP
Download the pdf version.
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.
Date September 2007 / Category Publications
with Hans Bernhard: Subversion ist Schnellbeton. Zur Ambivalenz des Subversiven in Medienproduktionen, in Thomas Ernst, Patricia Gozalbez Cantó, Sebastian Richter, Nadja Sennewald, Julia Tieke (eds),
SUBversionen. Zum Verhältnis von Politik und Ästhetik in der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript, 2008, pp. 63-81 .
Tags Article Communication German
Date December 2006 / Category Publications
with Patrick Kranzlmüller: RTFM! Teach-Yourself Culture in Open Source Software Projects, in Hug, Theo (ed.): Didactics of Microlearning, Berlin, New York: Waxmann, 2007, pp. 324-240.
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)
Download manuscript version as pdf.
Date March 2009 / Category Publications
Date November 2008 / Category Publications
Bastard Culture! User Participation and the extension of cultural industries. Dissertation. Utrecht: Utrecht University. Download as pdf.
Date September 2007 / Category Publications
with Bernhard Rieder: Beyond Engineering. Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy, in: Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, and Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Dordrecht: Springer, 2008, pp. 152-164.
Date February 2006 / Category Publications
Spielen jenseits der Gebrauchsanweisung. Partizipation als Output des Konsums softwarebasierter Produkte; in Neitzel, Britta; Rolf, Nohr (eds): Das Spiel mit dem Medium. Partizipation - Immersion - Interaktion, Marburg: Schüren, 2006, pp. 296-310.