Roberto Simanowski

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Roberto Simanowski (* 1963 ) is a German literary and media scholar and founder of the online journal for digital art and culture dichtung-digital . org .

Life

Simanowski studied German literature and history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , where he received his doctorate in 1996 as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation on entertainment literature around 1800. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in the Collaborative Research Center for Nationality of International Literatures, was a Humboldt fellow at Harvard University from 1998 to 2000 with the research project "Cyberspace and Literature", visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle from 2001 to 2002 as well as visiting professor at the Institute for Media Studies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2002/2003. From 2003 to 2010 he taught German literature and culture as well as digital aesthetics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. From 2010 to 2013 he was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Basel and from 2014 to 2017 at the City University of Hong Kong . In 1999 Simanowski founded dichtung -digital . org, a journal for the art and culture of digital media, which he published until 2014 and which, with its 450 articles by over 100 scientists and artists from 20 countries, has decisively promoted the development of an interdisciplinary, international understanding on aesthetic and cultural aspects of digital technologies. Simanowski lives as an author and consultant in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.

Book publications

  • Managing the adventure. Mass culture around 1800 using the example of Christian August Vulpius , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1998. ISBN 978-3525205747
  • Cultural boundaries in the mirror of literatures: nationalism, regionalism, fundamentalism (co-editor), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1998. ISBN 978-3892443278
  • Europe - a salon? Contributions to the internationality of the literary salon (co-editor), Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 1999. ISBN 978-3892443704
  • Digital literature (guest editing), text & criticism, issue 152 (2001). ISBN 978-3883776842
  • Literature.digital. Forms and ways of a new literature (editor), Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, spring 2002. ISBN 978-3423243025
  • Interfictions. From writing on the net , Frankfurt am Main: Edition Suhrkamp Summer 2002. ISBN 978-3518122471
  • Transmediality. Studies on paraliterary procedures (co-editor), Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag: 2006. ISBN 978-3835300873
  • Digital media in the adventure society. Culture - Art - Utopias , Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2008. ISBN 978-3-499-55696-8
  • Reading Moving Letters: Digital Literature in Research and Teaching. A Handbook (co-editor), Bielefeld: Transcript 2010. ISBN 978-3-8376-1130-4
  • Digital Art and Meaning. Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations , University of Minnesota Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-81666-738-3
  • Text machines - Kinetic poetry - Interactive installation. To understand art in digital media , Bielefeld: Transcript 2012. ISBN 978-3-89942-976-3
  • Data Love , Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95757-023-9 (English edition: Columbia University Press 2018, ISBN 978-0-23117-726-9 )
  • Facebook Society , Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-057-4 (English edition: Columbia University Press 2018, ISBN 978-0-23118-272-0 ).
  • Waste: The alternative ABC of new media , Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-381-0 (English edition: MIT Press 2018, ISBN 978-0-262-53627-1 )
  • Silent media - The disappearance of computers in education and society , Matthes & Seitz Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-521-0
  • The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas , Cambridge, MA, London: MIT Press 2018, ISBN 978-0-262-53637-0
  • Social machine Facebook. Dialogue about the politically non-binding, together with Ramón Reichert, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-756-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the vita on simanowski.info .
  2. ^ Profile of the author at the Matthes & Seitz publishing house in Berlin .
personal data
SURNAME Simanowski, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1963