Christoph Raetzsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 296707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Raetzsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Raetzsch |
| SIGNATURE | RAETZSCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1256-2313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Does 'Failure' Mean in Civic Tech? We Need Continued Conversations About Discontinuation
research-article Open Access Share on What Does 'Failure' Mean in Civic Tech? We Need Continued Conversations About Discontinuation Authors: Andrea Hamm Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked SocietyView Profile , Yuya Shibuya University of Tokyo University of TokyoView Profile , Teresa Cerratto Pargman Stockholm University Stockholm UniversityView Profile , Roy Bendor Delft University of Technology …
Making (female) health care work matter: The performative publics of #systemrelevant during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Over the last two years, digital media have contributed significantly to increasing the visibility of those who are outstandingly challenged by the pandemic. In Germany, the Twitter hashtag #systemrelevant [systemically relevant] initiated a public debate on values and working conditions. Applying the practice-theory-based concept of performative publics, we analyze the formation of this specific public with a special focus on its gendered struct…
Towards Diversity in Global Journalism Studies. A Reply to Seth C. Lewis
In a recent commentary, Seth Lewis calls for a “rethinking” of the “objects and objectives” of journalism studies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst not underestimating the significant effects of this ongoing global health crisis, the authors of this commentary do not share the sense of urgency for revising the field on such a broad scale. We wish to raise three key points that criticize and supplement Lewis’ reflections in light of exi…
From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark
This article discusses how Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been implemented in Denmark across three different sectors: parking, environmental zoning, and policing. ALPR systems are deployed as a configuration of cameras, servers, and algorithms of computer vision that automatically reads and records license plates of passing cars. Through digital ethnography and interviews with key stakeholders in Denmark, we contribute to the fiel…
Praxisprofile als mixed-methods Ansatz zur Analyse performativer Öffentlichkeiten: Vorschlag für eine relationale Journalismusforschung
Der vorliegende Artikel begründet und präsentiert einen mixed-methods Ansatz als Beitrag zu einer relationalen Journalismus- forschung. Ziel des Ansatzes ist es, die Herstellung von Öffentlichkeit in digitalen Medienumgebungen als geteilte Herstellungsleistung heterogener Akteur:innengruppen nachzuvollziehen und dabei gruppenspezifisch performativ-dramaturgische Stilmerkmale herauszuarbeiten. Zugrunde liegt ein praxeologischer Zugang, der für ein…
Disruption and Abrasion: American Social Media as Contested Infrastructures
Pitching Gender in a Racist Tune: The Affective Publics of the #120decibel Campaign
This article analyses the changed structures, actors and modes of communication that characterise ‘dissonant public spheres.’ With the #120decibel campaign by the German Identitarian Movement in 2018, gender and migration were pitched in a racist tune, absorbing feminist concerns and positions into neo-nationalistic, misogynist and xenophobic propaganda. The article examines the case of #120decibel as an instance of ‘affective publics’ (Lünenborg…
What smartness does in the smart city: From visions to policy
This article examines what smartness does on the ground by examining how its anticipatory media visions have been interpreted and acted on in policy decisions and local implementations since the early 2000s. Using a comparative-historical analysis that draws on fieldwork in aspiring smart cities in the United States and Europe, we argue that the visions of smartness are neither singular nor fixed across time and space. Instead, the role of smartn…
Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures
This article addresses the role of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating data sources in the context of smart cities and communities. On top of the built infrastructures in cities, application programming interfaces allow to weave new kinds of seams from static and dynamic data sources into the urban fabric. Contributing to debates about "urban informatics" and the governance of urban information infrastructures, this article …
Journalism Studies Beyond Journalism: A critical and appreciative dialogue with Michael Schudson
This article discusses the work of Michael Schudson and encourages research in journalism studies that addresses the formation of publics rather than only journalistic institutions. Reviewing Schudson’s work on the cultural history of modern journalism, the article focuses especially on the relation of journalism to culture and technology. The first part argues that Schudson’s proficiency in cultural history distinguishes his writings as both pro…
Real Pictures of Current Events’: The photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity
Objectivity has been regarded as a central ideal of American journalism in the early twentieth century. The concurrent emergence of photography in the press is rarely associated with this development. The article explores the photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity by discussing a crucial phase in the development of reproduction media for images, the transition from wood engravings to halftones. The former was the dominant mode of ‘illust…
Innovation Through Practice: Journalism as a structure of public communication
Practices of news selection, presentation and distribution have been transposed to the domain of audiences communicating through network media. Media practices of journalists and “media-oriented practices” of audiences (Couldry) make use of the network as a common resource, merging into a new form of “news-based communication.” This new situation of public communication questions institutional approaches to journalism and the crisis it currently …
Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures
This article addresses the role of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating data sources in the context of smart cities and communities. On top of the built infrastructures in cities, application programming interfaces allow to weave new kinds of seams from static and dynamic data sources into the urban fabric. Contributing to debates about "urban informatics" and the governance of urban information infrastructures, this article …
Innovation Through Practice: Journalism as a structure of public communication
Practices of news selection, presentation and distribution have been transposed to the domain of audiences communicating through network media. Media practices of journalists and “media-oriented practices” of audiences (Couldry) make use of the network as a common resource, merging into a new form of “news-based communication.” This new situation of public communication questions institutional approaches to journalism and the crisis it currently …
Praxisprofile als mixed-methods Ansatz zur Analyse performativer Öffentlichkeiten: Vorschlag für eine relationale Journalismusforschung
Der vorliegende Artikel begründet und präsentiert einen mixed-methods Ansatz als Beitrag zu einer relationalen Journalismus- forschung. Ziel des Ansatzes ist es, die Herstellung von Öffentlichkeit in digitalen Medienumgebungen als geteilte Herstellungsleistung heterogener Akteur:innengruppen nachzuvollziehen und dabei gruppenspezifisch performativ-dramaturgische Stilmerkmale herauszuarbeiten. Zugrunde liegt ein praxeologischer Zugang, der für ein…
Making (female) health care work matter: The performative publics of #systemrelevant during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Over the last two years, digital media have contributed significantly to increasing the visibility of those who are outstandingly challenged by the pandemic. In Germany, the Twitter hashtag #systemrelevant [systemically relevant] initiated a public debate on values and working conditions. Applying the practice-theory-based concept of performative publics, we analyze the formation of this specific public with a special focus on its gendered struct…
From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark
This article discusses how Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been implemented in Denmark across three different sectors: parking, environmental zoning, and policing. ALPR systems are deployed as a configuration of cameras, servers, and algorithms of computer vision that automatically reads and records license plates of passing cars. Through digital ethnography and interviews with key stakeholders in Denmark, we contribute to the fiel…
Real Pictures of Current Events’: The photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity
Objectivity has been regarded as a central ideal of American journalism in the early twentieth century. The concurrent emergence of photography in the press is rarely associated with this development. The article explores the photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity by discussing a crucial phase in the development of reproduction media for images, the transition from wood engravings to halftones. The former was the dominant mode of ‘illust…
Innovation Through Practice: Journalism as a structure of public communication
Practices of news selection, presentation and distribution have been transposed to the domain of audiences communicating through network media. Media practices of journalists and “media-oriented practices” of audiences (Couldry) make use of the network as a common resource, merging into a new form of “news-based communication.” This new situation of public communication questions institutional approaches to journalism and the crisis it currently …
Real Pictures of Current Events’: The photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity
Objectivity has been regarded as a central ideal of American journalism in the early twentieth century. The concurrent emergence of photography in the press is rarely associated with this development. The article explores the photographic legacy of journalistic objectivity by discussing a crucial phase in the development of reproduction media for images, the transition from wood engravings to halftones. The former was the dominant mode of ‘illust…
Journalism Studies Beyond Journalism: A critical and appreciative dialogue with Michael Schudson
This article discusses the work of Michael Schudson and encourages research in journalism studies that addresses the formation of publics rather than only journalistic institutions. Reviewing Schudson’s work on the cultural history of modern journalism, the article focuses especially on the relation of journalism to culture and technology. The first part argues that Schudson’s proficiency in cultural history distinguishes his writings as both pro…
Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures
This article addresses the role of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating data sources in the context of smart cities and communities. On top of the built infrastructures in cities, application programming interfaces allow to weave new kinds of seams from static and dynamic data sources into the urban fabric. Contributing to debates about "urban informatics" and the governance of urban information infrastructures, this article …
What smartness does in the smart city: From visions to policy
This article examines what smartness does on the ground by examining how its anticipatory media visions have been interpreted and acted on in policy decisions and local implementations since the early 2000s. Using a comparative-historical analysis that draws on fieldwork in aspiring smart cities in the United States and Europe, we argue that the visions of smartness are neither singular nor fixed across time and space. Instead, the role of smartn…
Disruption and Abrasion: American Social Media as Contested Infrastructures
Pitching Gender in a Racist Tune: The Affective Publics of the #120decibel Campaign
This article analyses the changed structures, actors and modes of communication that characterise ‘dissonant public spheres.’ With the #120decibel campaign by the German Identitarian Movement in 2018, gender and migration were pitched in a racist tune, absorbing feminist concerns and positions into neo-nationalistic, misogynist and xenophobic propaganda. The article examines the case of #120decibel as an instance of ‘affective publics’ (Lünenborg…
Towards Diversity in Global Journalism Studies. A Reply to Seth C. Lewis
In a recent commentary, Seth Lewis calls for a “rethinking” of the “objects and objectives” of journalism studies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst not underestimating the significant effects of this ongoing global health crisis, the authors of this commentary do not share the sense of urgency for revising the field on such a broad scale. We wish to raise three key points that criticize and supplement Lewis’ reflections in light of exi…
From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark
This article discusses how Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been implemented in Denmark across three different sectors: parking, environmental zoning, and policing. ALPR systems are deployed as a configuration of cameras, servers, and algorithms of computer vision that automatically reads and records license plates of passing cars. Through digital ethnography and interviews with key stakeholders in Denmark, we contribute to the fiel…
Praxisprofile als mixed-methods Ansatz zur Analyse performativer Öffentlichkeiten: Vorschlag für eine relationale Journalismusforschung
Der vorliegende Artikel begründet und präsentiert einen mixed-methods Ansatz als Beitrag zu einer relationalen Journalismus- forschung. Ziel des Ansatzes ist es, die Herstellung von Öffentlichkeit in digitalen Medienumgebungen als geteilte Herstellungsleistung heterogener Akteur:innengruppen nachzuvollziehen und dabei gruppenspezifisch performativ-dramaturgische Stilmerkmale herauszuarbeiten. Zugrunde liegt ein praxeologischer Zugang, der für ein…
Making (female) health care work matter: The performative publics of #systemrelevant during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Over the last two years, digital media have contributed significantly to increasing the visibility of those who are outstandingly challenged by the pandemic. In Germany, the Twitter hashtag #systemrelevant [systemically relevant] initiated a public debate on values and working conditions. Applying the practice-theory-based concept of performative publics, we analyze the formation of this specific public with a special focus on its gendered struct…
What Does 'Failure' Mean in Civic Tech? We Need Continued Conversations About Discontinuation
research-article Open Access Share on What Does 'Failure' Mean in Civic Tech? We Need Continued Conversations About Discontinuation Authors: Andrea Hamm Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked SocietyView Profile , Yuya Shibuya University of Tokyo University of TokyoView Profile , Teresa Cerratto Pargman Stockholm University Stockholm UniversityView Profile , Roy Bendor Delft University of Technology …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Journalism (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works)