Making Media Futures

Phillip H. Roth is a Media Sociologist and Science Studies Scholar, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.Ana María Guzmán Olmos is a Research Associate at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Bonn.Alin Olteanu is Associate Professor of Semiotics, Multimodality and Media Technologies at Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Associate Researcher with Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Stefan Böschen is Professor for Society and Technology, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, and spokesperson of the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

• Foreword – Making Media Futures, or How Futures in the Mirror of Media May be Closer than They appear1. Introducing Imagination Technologies: Making Media Futures & Future-Making MediaI. Imagination and Future Media: Theoretical Reflections2. The Quantum Computer as a Medium of the Future: Imaginaries of Quantum Computing in Alex Garland’s Mini-Series Devs3. Gilbert Simondon’s Image Theory and Human-Technology Relations through Imagination and AI Image-Generation4. No (Media) Future: Queer Theory, Reproductive Futurism, and 5GII. The Mediality of Imaginaries: Empirical Insights5. Socio-technical imaginaries of the Internet of Things6. Transmedia Strategies of Young Climate Activists: On the Communities Constituting the Fridays for Future movement in BrazilIII. Social and Cultural Constructions of Media Imaginaries: Historical Accounts7. American Evangelicals and the Imaginary Realm on Radio, 1920–708. Reorganizing the Postwar Scientific Record: Vannevar Bush’s Vision of “Memex”Index