Tobias Stadler
Tobias Stadler
Abstract
Alternative social networks, such as the decentralised Fediverse, which was created around the ActivityPub protocol, are attempting to position themselves as a counter-design to centralised commercial platforms. However, the technical specifications of this protocol contain both ideas for a better digital society and the norms and structures of communicative capitalism. The project aims to shed light on these contradictions: An ideology-critical approach will seek the veiled logics of digital capitalism in its counter-designs, while a media-historical perspective will look at these continuities and the implicit ideas of freedom and liberation in alternative media. Using the tools of Critical Code Studies, the developed concepts of labour, value and property as well as reconfigured subjectivations as users will be sought in the technical specifics of the ActivityPub protocol.
Short biography
since 09/2020
Scholarship holder in the MWK doctoral programme 'Shaping the Future. Transformation of the Present through Scenarios of Digitalisation' at the University of Oldenburg
2010 - 2019
B.A. & M.A. Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna
2013 - 2015
EC Gender Studies, University of Vienna
2012 - present
Passionate cat gif collector and YouTube trash connoisseur
Publications/Presentations/Projects
Publication:
Ölstandsanzeiger - Über die Unsichtbarmachung und Naturalisierung der Produktion personenbezogener Daten. In: DataPolitics - Zum Umgang mit Daten im Digitalen Zeitalter, edited by Martina Bachor, Theo Hug and Günther Pallaver, innsbruck university press, Innsbruck 2021.
Course: WiSe 2021/22
Ideologies of the digital. Seminar at the Institute of Philosophy
Lecture: 05/2018
Digital Labour - Labour, commodity and surplus value production on social network platforms
Lecture as part of the series of lectures Arbeit (neu) definieren! at the Institute of Economics at the University of Vienna
Publication:
The whitest milkshake alive: Harlem Shake and Cultural Appropriation. In: Tanz im Film - Das Politische in der Bewegung, edited by Sarah Binder, Sarah Kanawin, Simon Sailer and Florian Wagner, Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017.
Publication:
Work in Procrastination: Data Work as Feminised Work - Digital Sociality as a Relationship of Exploitation. In: Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart - Beiträge zur ersten under.docs-Fachtagung zu Kommunikation, edited by Diotima Bertel, Julia Himmelsbach, Christina Krakovsky, Barbara Metzler, Andreas Riedl and Lara Möller, danzig & unfried, Vienna 2016.
Course: WiSe 2014
Tonight on Sick, Sad World - Fernsehkritik als Gesellschaftskritik
Free first semester tutorial of bagru:thewi (together with Florian Wagner)