Scientific researcher at the Center for Cultural Inquiry
Bischofsvilla
Otto-Adam-Str. 5
78467 Konstanz
Germany
Internal Mail: Box 914
Telephone: +49 7531 88-5818
E-Mail: steffen.kraemer@uni-konstanz.de
Curriculum vitae
Steffen Krämer is postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Cultural Inquiry at the University of Konstanz. He is currently conducting research on forms and norms of attention refusal in social media at the Konstanz section of the Research Institute Social Cohesion. He completed his doctorate in media studies at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on diagrammatic media in epidemiology. Previous academic positions include: lecturer at the University of Lüneburg (2017-2019), PhD fellow at the University of Hamburg (2015-2017), research assistant at the University of Cottbus (2013-2015), and filmmaker and researcher in the project Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths University London (2012-2014). In addition to his current research focus, he is interested in concepts and methods of affect research in media studies. Prior to his PhD, he worked in documentary and exhibition filmmaking, focusing on the connection between film and architecture in research and teaching. He studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts and Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University London.
Research interests
- Theory and history of Social Media
- Affect research in cultural and media studies
- Digital methods in media studies
- Media history of epidemiology
Publication list
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(2024): ‘Block talk’ on Twitter : Material affordances and communicative normsKrämer, Steffen, & Otto, Isabell. 2024c. ‘Block talk’ on Twitter : Material affordances and communicative norms. Media, Culture & Society, 46(3): 462–480.
This article explores the phenomenon of block talk among Germanspeaking Twitter users, based on a subsample of 1700 tweets from a larger corpus of 380,000 block-related tweets collected between February and December 2021. Block talk refers to users publicly mentioning and conversing about the disconnective practice of blocking, which sometimes stimulates a debate about the legitimate use of blocking while at other times providing an outgroup marker for collective positioning. Through the example of block talk we demonstrate that the platform’s curatorial infrastructure for drawing boundaries between public and private is continuously negotiated, and that this negotiation transforms the meaning of some of the default communicative affordances of the platform but also creates its own routines of making public. On the one hand, we show how users adapt conversational devices such as hashtags, screenshots, and @-mentions in the context of block talk. On the other hand, we present examples of Twitter users’ normative reflections about blocking and discuss them as processes of metapragmatic enregisterment. In the final discussion, we propose to integrate processes of routinized adaptation as well as reflexive enregisterment into a joint process of ‘communicative infrastructuring’.
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(2024): Anschluss im Ausschluss? : Zur Formierung von exklusiver Anschlusskommunikation in Sozialen MedienKrämer, Steffen, & Otto, Isabell. 2024a. Anschluss im Ausschluss? : Zur Formierung von exklusiver Anschlusskommunikation in Sozialen Medien. In A. Salheiser, M. Alexopoulou, & A. Yendell (Eds.), Die Grenzen des Zusammenhalts : Wie Inklusion und Exklusion zusammenhängen: 137–152. Frankfurt: Campus.
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(2024): KommunikationsverweigerungKrämer, Steffen, & Otto, Isabell. 2024b. Kommunikationsverweigerung. (Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention, Ed.)Diskursmonitor : Glossar zur strategischen Kommunikation in öffentlichen Diskursen. https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/69852.
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(2023): Practices of Classification : The Hashtag as Infrastructure for InteractionKrämer, Steffen, & Otto, Isabell. 2023. Practices of Classification : The Hashtag as Infrastructure for Interaction. Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities: 87–96. Bielefeld: transcript.
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(2023): Ambient StreamsKrämer, Steffen. 2023. Ambient Streams. Following : Ein Kompendium zu Medien der Gefolgschaft und Prozessen des Folgens: 47–56. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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(2022): Forschungsdaten und Forschungsethik in Beziehung setzen : Forschungsethik, Recht und Öffentlichkeit in sozialen MedienKrämer, Steffen. 2022a. Forschungsdaten und Forschungsethik in Beziehung setzen : Forschungsethik, Recht und Öffentlichkeit in sozialen Medien. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, ZfM Online, Open-Media-Studies-Blog. https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/68457.
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(2022): Revisiting the ‘Epistemization’ of Overlaying : The computerized mapping of disease project (MOD), 1965–1968Krämer, Steffen. 2022c. Revisiting the ‘Epistemization’ of Overlaying : The computerized mapping of disease project (MOD), 1965–1968. New Media & Society, 24(11): 2419–2437.
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(2022): “Drawing Thresholds That Make Sense” : Diagrammatic Evidence and Urgency in Automatic Outbreak DetectionKrämer, Steffen. 2022b. “Drawing Thresholds That Make Sense” : Diagrammatic Evidence and Urgency in Automatic Outbreak Detection. In S. Ehlers & S. Esselborn (Eds.), Evidence in Action between Science and Society : Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge: 165–184. New York: Routledge.
This chapter discusses the aesthetic and affective ordering of evidence practices in the context of epidemiological surveillance. The author focuses on the medium of the signal report that is used by public health agencies and epidemiologists in Germany to retrieve automatic warnings about possible outbreaks. The emergence of such an infrastructure for automatic outbreak detection is historically situated in international developments toward anticipatory biosecurity since the 1990s, both on the level of policy-related concepts and of algorithmic implementation. The chapter compares different designs of signal reports at the national center for disease control in Germany and reconstructs the particular role of control charts for making visible the computational context of early warning signals. Theoretically, signals are conceptualized as objects with evidentiary potential that affectively lure epistemic action. Moreover, tracing the infrastructure and media for signal reporting brings to light differing attitudes toward the evidentiary contribution of automatic recommendation systems and how boundaries between different traditions of expertise are secured.
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(2020): Diagrams of epidemiological knowledge in medical geography and public health surveillanceKrämer, Steffen. 2020a, October 15. Diagrams of epidemiological knowledge in medical geography and public health surveillance. https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/68460.
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(2020): Dashboard-Kultur(en)Krämer, Steffen. 2020b. Dashboard-Kultur(en). KWI-Blog. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17185/kwi-blog/20200423-0900.
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(2019): Editorial : Locating affectKemmer, Laura, Krämer, Steffen, Peters, Christian Helge, & Weber, Vanessa. 2019. Editorial : Locating affect. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 20(1): 1–4.
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dc.contributor.author: Kemmer, Laura; Peters, Christian Helge; Weber, Vanessa
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(2019): Of fillings and feelings : locating affect, attention, and vaguenessKrämer, Steffen. 2019. Of fillings and feelings : locating affect, attention, and vagueness. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 20(1): 101–117.
The article discusses the location of affect in human experience bysituating the concept in relation to attention and to differentdegrees of propositional structuring. By bringing togetherextended mind theories, the affect philosophies of Spinoza andDeleuze, and Whitehead’s theory of intensities, the article seeks tomediate between different strands of affect theory; especiallybetween what has been termed‘non-representational’theories ofaffect and those that couple affective processes with intentionaland perceptual contents. The article will end by discussingvagueness as an important empirical interface in both trajectoriesof theorizing affect.
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(2015): Die verwaltete Fiktion : Bunker, Archiv, ExterritorialitätKrämer, Steffen. 2015. Die verwaltete Fiktion : Bunker, Archiv, Exterritorialität. In S. Martin & A. Steinborn (Eds.), Orte. Nicht-Orte. Ab-Orte : mediale Verortungen des Dazwischen: 41–57. Marburg: Schüren.
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(2015): Introduction [zu: Framing excessive violence : discourse and dynamics]Gerster, Marco, Krämer, Steffen, & Ziegler, Daniel. 2015. Introduction [zu: Framing excessive violence : discourse and dynamics]. In D. Ziegler, M. Gerster, & S. Krämer (Eds.), Framing excessive violence : discourse and dynamics: 1–13. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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dc.contributor.author: Ziegler, Daniel