DFG Research Project on "Scopic Media"

The goal of this project is a comparative study of the production, functioning and consequences of scopic media for a theory of global social forms in areas such as global finance, the military, medicine, extreme sports and telepresence-based interaction. The areas of study were selected to represent global, collective-national, interactional and bodily levels of scopic media use. 

"Using Screen Technologies in the Wild. Two Cases of Mediatization Under Extreme Conditions."

Stefan Beljean and Niklas Woermann. Presentation at the World Social Science Forum, Montreal, October 2013.
http://www.wssf2013.org/paper-article/using-screen-technologies-wild-two-cases-mediatization-under-extreme-conditions