Alle Artikel mit dem Schlagwort ‘Agency

Drone Vision

I published a paper on Drone Vision in senseAbility – Mediale Praktiken des Sehens und Hörens, a volume published by Beate Ochsner and Robert Stock. The paper draws upon a functional shift of images from a medium of visibility and visualization towards a medium that guides operative processes. On the basis of a case study […]

Automated killing and mediated caring

Robot-based intervention in clinical contexts establishes new forms of collaboration between physicians and medical agents. In particular, image-guided robotic intervention such as radiation cancer therapy relies on cooperation between human and robotic actors. This setting comprises an epistemic and a pragmatic dilemma: if the tools and devices increasingly shape, impact and govern medical decisions and […]

CFP: Political Agency in the Digital Age

Call for Papers for ECREA Symposium “Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy” taking place in the context of the „Communication and Democracy Conference“ 2015 9-10 October 2015, at Copenhagen Business School: „Research on media and politics has traditionally tended towards separating the sphere of politics from political processes in other societal […]

Automated killing and mediated caring

Symposium „Machine Ethics in the Context of Medical and Care Agents“, Annual con­ven­tion of the Soci­ety for the Study of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and the Sim­u­la­tion of Behav­iour. Goldsmiths College London, Apr 4, 2014 (with Kathrin Friedrich) Robot-based intervention in clinical contexts establishes new forms of collaboration between physicians and medical agents. In particular, image-guided robotic […]