Johannes Paßmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4907682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes Paßmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Paßmann |
| SIGNATURE | PAßMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruhr University Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2822-6082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Social Life of Things in Interviews: Activating Non-Human Informants in Empirical Research
This article develops a methodological framework for leveraging the entanglement of practices and things in interviews. Our praxeological approach offers a processual heuristic for activating things as research participants. Adapting Appadurai’s The Social Life of Things, we analyze this activation through the triad of candidates, context, and phase. Drawing on posthumanist inquiry, we demonstrate how objects and interviewees momentarily fuse int…
Follow the updates! Reconstructing past practices with web archive data
The article argues that data from web archives can help to reconstruct past practices: Drawing on the example of practices of online commenting, it shows that even though practices themselves are not archivable, artifacts with specific relations to these practices remain.Identifying relevant updates of these artifacts, following them beyond the archive and making them non-human research participants in a technographic sense, allows us to not only…
Web Histories in the Making: Web Archives & the Logics of Practice
Historically-situated accounts of the Web have a long history within the field of internet studies. Drawing on diverse methodologies and forms of data, web histories of platforms, cultures and communities of practice have illuminated the rich, but often transient and shifting nature of life online. Many web histories rely upon researchers capturing, collecting, and generating their own data through time, though some have also engaged with web arc…
Getting Noticed by Many: On the Transformations of the Popular
This article argues that the transformations of the popular, which began in Europe around 1800 and introduced the powerful distinction between low culture and high culture, have established a competitive distinction between the popular and the non-popular that has become dominant over the course of the 20th century. As a result, the popular is no longer either the culture of the ‘lower classes’ or the inclusion of the ‘people’ in the service of h…
Technografie als Methode der Social- Media-Forschung
Technografische Anstze weisen darauf hin, dass die konstitutive Bedeutung von technischen Artefakten und Infrastrukturen fr menschliche Gesellschaften sowohl konzeptuelle als auch methodische Bercksichtigung in deren Erforschung finden muss. Damit betonen sie, dass menschliche Gesellschaften und Gemeinschaften
From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation
This article examines how the commenting platform Disqus changed the way it speaks about commenting and moderation over time. To understand this evolving self-presentation, we used the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to analyse the company’s website and blog between 2007 and 2021. By combining interpretative close-reading approaches with computerised distant-reading procedures, we examined how Disqus tried to advance online discussion and dealt …
Was bei vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären
Being popular means getting noticed by many. Popularity is measured as well as staged. Rankings and charts provide information on what is popular while vying for popularity themselves. They do not speak to the quality or originality of the popular, only to its evident success across different scales of evaluation. People do not buy good products, they buy popular ones; they do not listen to the best music, but to popular music; they do not share,…
Liking as taste making: Social media practices as generators of aesthetic valuation and distinction
Much research has been conducted on how social media platforms are used as outlets of taste expression, displaying cultural preferences acquired outside the platforms. This research largely builds on the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of taste as a medium of social distinction. We propose to shift the emphasis from the study of taste expression to an analysis of taste making on social media. This shift is occasioned by bro…
Soziologiehistoriografische Reinigungsarbeit: Zur Einordnung Helmut Schelskys um 1960
Liking as taste making: Social media practices as generators of aesthetic valuation and distinction
Much research has been conducted on how social media platforms are used as outlets of taste expression, displaying cultural preferences acquired outside the platforms. This research largely builds on the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of taste as a medium of social distinction. We propose to shift the emphasis from the study of taste expression to an analysis of taste making on social media. This shift is occasioned by bro…
Getting Noticed by Many: On the Transformations of the Popular
This article argues that the transformations of the popular, which began in Europe around 1800 and introduced the powerful distinction between low culture and high culture, have established a competitive distinction between the popular and the non-popular that has become dominant over the course of the 20th century. As a result, the popular is no longer either the culture of the ‘lower classes’ or the inclusion of the ‘people’ in the service of h…
Was bei vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären
Being popular means getting noticed by many. Popularity is measured as well as staged. Rankings and charts provide information on what is popular while vying for popularity themselves. They do not speak to the quality or originality of the popular, only to its evident success across different scales of evaluation. People do not buy good products, they buy popular ones; they do not listen to the best music, but to popular music; they do not share,…
Soziologiehistoriografische Reinigungsarbeit: Zur Einordnung Helmut Schelskys um 1960
Liking as taste making: Social media practices as generators of aesthetic valuation and distinction
Much research has been conducted on how social media platforms are used as outlets of taste expression, displaying cultural preferences acquired outside the platforms. This research largely builds on the cultural sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of taste as a medium of social distinction. We propose to shift the emphasis from the study of taste expression to an analysis of taste making on social media. This shift is occasioned by bro…
Technografie als Methode der Social- Media-Forschung
Technografische Anstze weisen darauf hin, dass die konstitutive Bedeutung von technischen Artefakten und Infrastrukturen fr menschliche Gesellschaften sowohl konzeptuelle als auch methodische Bercksichtigung in deren Erforschung finden muss. Damit betonen sie, dass menschliche Gesellschaften und Gemeinschaften
From healthy communities to toxic debates: Disqus’ changing ideas about comment moderation
This article examines how the commenting platform Disqus changed the way it speaks about commenting and moderation over time. To understand this evolving self-presentation, we used the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to analyse the company’s website and blog between 2007 and 2021. By combining interpretative close-reading approaches with computerised distant-reading procedures, we examined how Disqus tried to advance online discussion and dealt …
Was bei vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären
Being popular means getting noticed by many. Popularity is measured as well as staged. Rankings and charts provide information on what is popular while vying for popularity themselves. They do not speak to the quality or originality of the popular, only to its evident success across different scales of evaluation. People do not buy good products, they buy popular ones; they do not listen to the best music, but to popular music; they do not share,…
Web Histories in the Making: Web Archives & the Logics of Practice
Historically-situated accounts of the Web have a long history within the field of internet studies. Drawing on diverse methodologies and forms of data, web histories of platforms, cultures and communities of practice have illuminated the rich, but often transient and shifting nature of life online. Many web histories rely upon researchers capturing, collecting, and generating their own data through time, though some have also engaged with web arc…
Getting Noticed by Many: On the Transformations of the Popular
This article argues that the transformations of the popular, which began in Europe around 1800 and introduced the powerful distinction between low culture and high culture, have established a competitive distinction between the popular and the non-popular that has become dominant over the course of the 20th century. As a result, the popular is no longer either the culture of the ‘lower classes’ or the inclusion of the ‘people’ in the service of h…
Follow the updates! Reconstructing past practices with web archive data
The article argues that data from web archives can help to reconstruct past practices: Drawing on the example of practices of online commenting, it shows that even though practices themselves are not archivable, artifacts with specific relations to these practices remain.Identifying relevant updates of these artifacts, following them beyond the archive and making them non-human research participants in a technographic sense, allows us to not only…
The Social Life of Things in Interviews: Activating Non-Human Informants in Empirical Research
This article develops a methodological framework for leveraging the entanglement of practices and things in interviews. Our praxeological approach offers a processual heuristic for activating things as research participants. Adapting Appadurai’s The Social Life of Things, we analyze this activation through the triad of candidates, context, and phase. Drawing on posthumanist inquiry, we demonstrate how objects and interviewees momentarily fuse int…
Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)