An Introduction in Ten Theses
I. Which Crowds?
Inge Baxmann
Introduction
Christian Borch
Crowd Mediation. On Media and Collective Dynamics
Christiane Heibach
From Masses to Collectives. Dimensions of a Discursive Paradigm Shift
Florian Sprenger
Inertia, Acceleration, and Media/Theory
Irina Kaldrack and Theo Röhle
Creating Subsets of the Masses. Taxonomies, Orders, and Crowds in Facebook's Open Graph Protocol
Roland Meyer
Augmented Crowds. Identity Management, Face Recognition, and Crowd Monitoring
II. Which Media?
Claus Pias
Introduction
Wolfgang Hagen
Discharged Crowds. On the Crisis of a Concept
Michael Andreas
“Open” and “Free.” On Two Programs of Social Media
Dirk Baecker
The Sociology of Media
Sebastian Vehlken
Reality Mining. On New (and Former) Methods of Social Simulation
Christopher Engemann
Human Terrain System. Social Networks and the Media of Military Anthropology
III. Which Public Spheres?
Tim Beyes
Introduction
Sascha Simons
The Ornament of Mass Customization. On the Collective Consciousness of Dispersed Examiners
Carolin Wiedemann
Collectivity without Identity. Anonymous, Flexible Infrastructures, and the Event of the Common
Mirko Tobias Schäfer
Unstable (Counter) Publics. Online Platforms as Hybrid Forums for Socio-Political Debates
Christoph Bieber
Towards and Ethics of the Leak?. WikiLeaks as a Programmed Public Sphere
Peter Krapp
Between the Madness and the Wisdom of Crowds. Computer Games and the Distraction Economy
IV. Commentaries
Marie-Luise Angerer
Short-Circuiting the Masses
Charles Ess
Falling Between Two Chairs – or Three, or…
List of Contributors
