Digital Publics and Social Transformation in the Maghreb (B04)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology ; Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262513311

The project investigates media practices in Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora and analyzes the emergence and reconfiguration of publics and forms of cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region. In the final phase of the project, comparative ethnographic research and socio-informatic de-sign case studies of cooperative media use will allow to explore the conditions of political surveillance and civic cooperation in situations of upheaval, thereby contributing to the further differentiation of theoretical notions of publics that encompass graduated transitions between protected inner and representative outer spaces, as well as their fragmentation and control.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1187: Media of Cooperation
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Privatdozent Dr. Markus Rohde; Professor Dr. Volker Wulf; Professor Dr. Martin Zillinger