871 research outputs found
Lokalisierung der politischen Macht technologischer Objekte – Eine humanzentrierte Exploration von Kontext
No full textDer folgende Text fasst meine Beiträge zur Frage zusammen, wie das technologische Umfeld die soziale Interaktion beeinflussen kann, die es kontextualisiert. In einer Reihe empirischer Untersuchungen (Klowait, 2017; Klowait et al., 2024), methodologischer Auseinandersetzungen (Klowait, 2018b, 2019) und interdisziplinärer Synthesen (Klowait et al., 2024; Klowait & Erofeeva, 2021) habe ich versucht, einen Weg zu finden, über die Macht von Objekten nachzudenken, ohne in die Fallen des Techno-Determinismus oder des psychologischen Reduktionismus zu geraten. Dabei habe ich mich vor allem mit dem interdisziplinären Feld der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (HCI) im Kontext der multimodalen Wende (Goodwin, 2000, 2018; Mondada, 2016, 2019) auseinandergesetzt. Methodisch wurde mein Zugang zu Fragen der HCI wesentlich durch Ethnomethodologie und Gesprächsanalyse sowie durch soziologische Interaktionsanalyse im weiteren Sinne geprägt. Die hier präsentierte Auswahl an Beiträgen befasst sich daher mit sozialer Interaktion rund um technologische Artefakte und damit, wie deren Gestaltung auf soziale Situationen einwirken kann. Bei der Diskussion der Beiträge wird auch auf andere Publikationen im Feld, einschließlich meiner eigenen, Bezug genommen.Die Arbeiten wurden im Laufe meiner Entwicklung als Forscher veröffentlicht und spiegeln daher eine Evolution meines Zugangs zu diesem Thema sowie eine allmähliche Fokussierung der Art meiner Beiträge zum Feld wider. Ausgehend von einer breiteren kontextualisierenden Einführung bietet dieser Text einen synthetischen Überblick über die Forschung und hebt die Verbindungen zwischen den einzelnen Arbeiten hervor. Während dieser Text bestimmte Aspekte der Beiträge rezensiert, ist er als Begleittext für Leserinnen und Leser gedacht, die mit der Originalforschung vertraut sind.The following text is a summary of my contributions to the question of how the technological environment can affect the social interaction it contextualizes. Over a series of empirical investigations (Klowait, 2017; Klowait et al., 2024), methodological engagements (Klowait, 2018b, 2019) and interdisciplinary syntheses (Klowait et al., 2024; Klowait & Erofeeva, 2021), I have aimed to find a way to think about the power of objects whilst avoiding the pitfalls of techno-determinism or psychological reductionism. In so doing, I primarily engaged the multidisciplinary field of human-computer interaction (HCI) in the context of the multimodal turn (Goodwin, 2000, 2018; Mondada, 2016, 2019). Methodologically, my approach to questions in HCI has been substantially informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, and sociological interaction analysis more broadly. The specific selection of papers presented here are thus concerned with social interaction around technological artifacts, and the way their design can be said to be efficacious toward the social situation. In discussing the paper’s contributions, references will be made to other publications in the field, including my own. The papers were published over the course of my development as a researcher, and as such represent an evolution of my approach to this topic, and a gradual focusing of the nature of my contributions to the field. From a broader contextualizing introduction, this text will provide a synthetic overview of research and highlight the connections between each individual paper. While this text will review certain aspects of the papers, it is intended as a companion piece for a reader who is acquainted with the original research.von Nils Klowait ; Betreuer*in Prof. Dr. Birgitt RiegrafTag der Verteidigung: 09.09.2025Kumulative Dissertation Universität Paderborn, Dissertation, 202
Supplementary Material: Can AI explain AI? Interactive co-construction of explanations among human and artificial agents
No full textSupplementary material to: Klowait, Nils, Maria Erofeeva, Michael Lenke, Ilona Horwath & Hendrik Buschmeier. 2024. Can AI explain AI? Interactive co-construction of explanations among human and artificial agents. Discourse & Communication 18(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241267069
Frontiers in Sociology / The presentation of self in the age of ChatGPT
No full textContemporary debates about artificial intelligence (AI) still treat automation as a straightforward substitution of human labor by machines. Drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical sociology, this paper reframes AI in the workplace as supplementary rather than substitutive automation. We argue that the central—but routinely overlooked—terrain of struggle is symbolic-interactional: workers continuously stage, conceal, and re-negotiate what counts as “real” work and professional competence. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT exemplify this dynamic. They quietly take over the invisible, routinised tasks that underpin cognitive occupations (editing, summarizing, first-draft production) while leaving humans to enact the highly visible or relational facets that sustain occupational prestige. Drawing on diverse sources to illustrate our theoretical argument, we show how individual workers, dramaturgical teams, and entire professional fields manage impressions of expertise in order to counter status threats, renegotiate fees, or obscure the extent of AI assistance. The paper itself, having been intentionally written with the ‘aid’ of all presently available frontier AI models, serves as a metareflexive performance of professional self-staging. The dramaturgical framework clarifies why utopian tales of friction-free augmentation and dystopian narratives of total displacement both misread how automation is actually unfolding. By foregrounding visibility, obfuscation, and impression management, the article presents a differentiated case for AI’s impact on the performative structure of work, outlines diagnostic tools for assessing real-world AI exposure beyond hypedriven headlines, and argues for a more human-centered basis for evaluating policy responses to the ‘fourth industrial revolution.’ In short, AI enters the labor process not as an autonomous actor, but as a prop within an ongoing social performance—one whose scripts, stages, and audiences remain irreducibly human.Nils Klowait and Maria Erofeev
Sinirinnan kielellä : Nils-Aslak Valkeapään runouden suhde puhuttuun saamen kieleen
No full textAbstractThis paper illustrates and analyses the connections between spoken Saami and the lyric oeuvre of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää on several levels. Among other things, it provides examples of distinctive morpho-phonological, lexical and syntactic features as well as the use of punctuation marks, fonts, and other layout elements. Of the connections exemplified, the use of dialect in particular is regarded as a manifestation of the local identity of the poet, but the use of certain other features has clearly been motivated by stylistic and aesthetic considerations. As a contextualizing introduction, the author describes the difficulties of a minority writer who was never taught his native Saami language at school and whose first books were published amid the turmoil of constantly changing Saami orthographies. In addition, the role of dialects in Saami literature is discussed on a more general level.Abstract
This paper illustrates and analyses the connections between spoken Saami and the lyric oeuvre of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää on several levels. Among other things, it provides examples of distinctive morpho-phonological, lexical and syntactic features as well as the use of punctuation marks, fonts, and other layout elements. Of the connections exemplified, the use of dialect in particular is regarded as a manifestation of the local identity of the poet, but the use of certain other features has clearly been motivated by stylistic and aesthetic considerations. As a contextualizing introduction, the author describes the difficulties of a minority writer who was never taught his native Saami language at school and whose first books were published amid the turmoil of constantly changing Saami orthographies. In addition, the role of dialects in Saami literature is discussed on a more general level
The Philosophy of Social Market Economy: Michel Foucault's Analysis of Ordoliberalism
No full textMichel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in 1978–1979 centered on the analysis of power with regard to liberalism. Foucault especially focused on German ordoliberalism and its specific governmentality. Although Foucault’s review of the ordoliberal texts, programs, and books is very faithful, there are some occasional “schematic” simplifications. Our paper will evaluate Foucault’s constitution of an ordoliberal “archive”, though more emphasis will be put on the general importance of the phenomenological orientation in Walter Eucken’s work. Hence, three tasks will guide our paper: first, an analysis of Foucault’s position; second, the phenomenological foundation of the ordoliberal discourse compared to the 18th century liberal discourse, i.e. the way in which Walter Eucken received Husserl. Third, our paper shall raise the subject of the mutual historical-epistemological complementation of philosophy and economics by taking Foucault’s analysis as the starting point. Furthermore, the consequences of a phenomenological, “eidetic” order of the economy will be discussed, focusing mainly on the expansion of competition in social domains. --Foucault,Husserl,Eucken,ordoliberalism,eidetic order of the market,social market economy
The adaptive market hypothesis and time varying stock market return predictability in the DACH-countries
No full textauthor: Nils KaufmannMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 201
The adaptive market hypothesis and time varying stock market return predictability in the DACH-countries
No full textauthor: Nils KaufmannMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 201
The adaptive market hypothesis and time varying stock market return predictability in the DACH-countries
No full textauthor: Nils KaufmannMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 201
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. A Powerful Poetic Manifestation
No full textNils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001), or Áillohaš as he used as his artist name for a period of time, was the greatest Sámi multimedia artist. He made his debut as an author in 1971 with a book of essays, and is so far the only Sámi who has been awarded the prestigious Nordic Council’s literature prize, for his book of poetry and photographs Beaivi, áhčážan, 1989 (The Sun, My Father, 1997)
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