Front matter and table of contents
The inaugural issue on “Digital Material/ism” has been published in October 2015. It presents methodological and theoretical insights into digital materiality and materialism. The print issue can be ordered through the publisher’s website (transcript). All articles are now available as open access (since October 2016; CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). They can be downloaded individually below.
Introduction
Digital Material/ism
Ramon Reichert and Annika Richterich
I Software/Code Studies and Digital Material
Unearthing Techno-Ecology
On the Possibility of a Technical Media Philosophy of Ecology
Tim Barker and Conor McKeown
Reciprocal Materiality and the Body of Code
A Close Reading of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
Till A. Heilmann
II The Material of the Digital and Emerging Practices
Swipe to Unlock
How the Materiality of the Touchscreen Frames Media Use and Corresponding Perceptions of Media Content
Stefan Werning
Towards an Integrated Theory of the Cyber-Urban
Digital Materiality and Networked Media at Multiple Scales
Laura Forlano
III Methodological and Conceptual Reflections
Technological Materiality
and Assumptions About ‘Active’ Human Agency
Grant Bollmer
Interpreting an Improper Materialism
On Aesthesis, Synesthesia and the Digital
Ashley Scarlett
Towards a Relational Materialism
A Reflection on Language, Relations and the Digital
Yuk Hui
IV Entering the Field
Signs o’ the Times
The Software of Philology and a Philology of Software
Moritz Hiller
From Her (2013) to Viv the Global Brain
Becoming Material, Unfolding Experience through Radical Empiricism and Process Philosophy
Evelyn Wan
Material Agency in User-Centred Design Practices
High School Students Improvising (with) Smart Sensor Prototypes
Sabrina Sauer
V In Conversation with…
A Geology of Media and a New Materialism
Jussi Parikka in Conversation with Annika Richterich
Information Politics
Tim Jordan in Conversation with Karin Wenz
Biographical notes
About the authors
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