Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Tim Hector (M.A.) works as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« in the project »Un/desired Observation in Interaction: Smart Environments, Language, Body and Senses in Private Homes« at Universität Siegen. He did a PhD in applied linguistics on the linguistic domestication of voice assistants in private homes. His research is focussed on media linguistics, conversation analysis and linguistic praxeology.

David Waldecker (Dr.) is a sociologist and an academic librarian in training at Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt. He was a post-doc at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation«, Universität Siegen, and published his dissertation on Adorno in the recording studio in 2022.

Niklas Strüver (M.A.) is a PhD candidate at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« at Universität Siegen. His research is focussed around the sociology of technology and his dissertation explores the sociotechnical relations of voice assistants.

Tanja Aal is a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 »Media of Cooperation« at Universität Siegen. Here she works in the project A05: »The Cooperative Creation of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society«. In her doctoral she focusses on (digital) inclusion of vulnerable human and non-human actors by using the Design Justice Framework.