Digitisation

Gertraud Koch is a Professor and Head of Institute of European Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

• Introduction: Digitisation as challenge for empirical cultural research 1. Cultural techniques, practices, programmes: How to study the anthropo-logic of digitisation 2. Archive 3. Imperfect imaginaries: Digitisation, mundanisation, and the ungraspable 4. Ethnography of digital infrastructures 5. Hackers and hacking 6. 'A brilliant copy every time!': Aspects of a cultural proportion 7. The manifestation of mash-up categories 8. Big Data 9. From GUI to No-UI: Locating the interface for the Internet of Things 10. Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things 11. Calculating spaces: Digital encounters with maps and geodata 12. Augmented realities 13. The political economy of digital technologies: Outlining an emerging field of research 14. Ludification of culture: The significance of play and games in everyday practices of the digital era 15. Media genealogy: Back to the present of digital cultures

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