1st Edition
Making Media Futures Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations
Foreword – Making Media Futures, or How Futures in the Mirror of Media May be Closer than They appear, Benjamin Peters
1. Introducing Imagination Technologies: Making Media Futures and Future-Making Media, Phillip H. Roth, Alin Olteanu, Ana María Guzmán Olmos, and Stefan Böschen
I. Imagination and Future Media: Theoretical Reflections
2. The Quantum Computer as a Medium of the Future: Imaginaries of Quantum Computing in Alex Garland’s Miniseries Devs, Christoph Ernst and Jens Schröter
3. Gilbert Simondon’s Image Theory and Human-Technology Relations through Imagination and AI Image Generation, Jacqueline Bellon
4. No (Media) Future: Queer Theory, Reproductive Futurism, and 5G, Rory Sharp
II. The Mediality of Imaginaries: Empirical Insights
5. Sociotechnical Imaginaries of the Internet of Things, Ana Delicado, Ana Viseu, and Carolina Mourão
6. Transmedia Strategies of Young Climate Activists: On the Communities Constituting the Fridays for Future movement in Brazil, Vinicius Romanini, and Ana Druwe
III. Social and Cultural Constructions of Media Imaginaries: Historical Accounts
7. American Evangelicals and the Imaginary Realm on Global Radio, 1920–70, Timothy Stoneman
8. Reorganizing the Postwar Scientific Record: Vannevar Bush’s Vision of “Memex”, Phillip H. Roth
Index
Biography
Phillip H. Roth is a Media Sociologist and Science Studies Scholar, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Ana María Guzmán Olmos is a Research Associate at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Bonn.
Alin Olteanu is Associate Professor of Semiotics, Multimodality and Media Technologies at Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Associate Researcher with Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Stefan Böschen is Professor for Society and Technology, Director of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research, and spokesperson of the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
