@article{65627, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, journal = {{Philosophy & Digitality }}, title = {{{Infrastructures of Recognition: Towards a Theory of Social Media}}}, year = {{2027}}, } @misc{63446, booktitle = {{Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften}}, editor = {{Dörre, Robert and Laut-Berger, Christina and Pilipets, Elena and Schulz, Christian}}, publisher = {{Universi Verlag}}, title = {{{Was waren soziale Medien? Begriffe im Wandel}}}, volume = {{1}}, year = {{2027}}, } @book{65408, editor = {{Menne, Anna Lena and Schulz, Christian}}, publisher = {{Transcript}}, title = {{{Unpacking [Digital] Imaginaries. Das Imaginäre im Kontext digitaler Medien}}}, year = {{2027}}, } @inbook{55598, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Handbuch Social Media: Geschichte – Kultur – Ästhetik}}, editor = {{Dörre, Robert and Tuschling, Anna }}, publisher = {{Metzler Verlag}}, title = {{{Feeds. Ein zentrales Strukturprinzip sozialer Medien}}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{59747, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Plattformforschung nach dem Digital Services Act – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven }}, editor = {{Eickelmann, Jennifer and Mämecke, Thorben and Ruschemeier, Hannah and Waldmann, Maximilian}}, publisher = {{Büchner Verlag}}, title = {{{Das Imaginäre der Plattformen: Soziale Medien als Infrastrukturen der Anerkennung}}}, year = {{2026}}, } @article{64789, author = {{Beer, Fabian and Schulz, Christian}}, journal = {{RESET Journal (Recherches sciences sociale sur internet) Special Issue: Towards New Social and Historical Studies of Artificial Intelligence}}, publisher = {{Open Edition Journals}}, title = {{{AI has never been inherently interpretable: On a paradoxical origin of eXplainable AI (XAI)}}}, year = {{2026}}, } @techreport{65678, author = {{Menne, Anna Lena and Schulz, Christian}}, title = {{{Unpacking [Whose] Imaginary: Reflections from a Workshop on Digital Imaginaries}}}, volume = {{45}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{63031, abstract = {{Despite decades of awareness, asymmetries in conceptual resources, data, and governance between users and developers persist. Meanwhile, socially situated ‘end-users’ experience harms, such as hidden labor, reinforced stereotypes, and increased unpredictability, as machine learning advances. However, accurately modeling social context does not constitute design justice. This paper reinterprets Giuseppe Mantovani’s model of social context in human-computer interaction (HCI) to address the relational emergence and political situatedness of social context in human-AI interaction (HAI). Drawing on the concept of a multi-perspectival algorithmic imaginary, we (1) conceptualize context as nested and entangled relations, (2) identify actors, including users, developers, models, and interfaces, and (3) foreground the organization of relations of power. Recognizing that models are performative rather than predictive, we argue that the sociopolitical situatedness of context must be acknowledged alongside its limits. To challenge design authority, we propose that HCI and HAI strategically foster intra-actional negotiability, enabling users to challenge, reinterpret, or modify their relationship with technology through critical (design) practices.}}, author = {{Menne, Anna Lena and Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{HCI International 2026 Posters: 28th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 26–31, 2026, Proceedings, Part I}}, editor = {{Stephanidis, Constantine and Margetis, George and Ntoa, Stavroula and Antona, Margherita and Salvendy, Gavriel}}, keywords = {{Social Context, Situatedness, Imaginaries}}, location = {{Montreal}}, pages = {{93--106}}, publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}}, title = {{{Social Context in Human-AI Interaction (HAI): Towards a Theoretical Framework Based on Multi-Perspectival Imaginaries}}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-032-30552-7_10}}, volume = {{3047}}, year = {{2026}}, } @inbook{51748, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Populäre Artikulationen – Artikulationen des Populären}}, editor = {{Koch, Günter and Rottgeri , André }}, issn = {{2364-9224}}, pages = {{215--244}}, publisher = {{Schüren}}, title = {{{In Likes We Trust oder die unmögliche Möglichkeit vom Like als Gabe zu sprechen}}}, doi = {{https://doi.org/10.15475/skms.2025.1.11}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{51747, author = {{de Gruisbourne, Birte and Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Audiovisual Healing and Reparation: Recuperative Affect of Mediation}}, editor = {{Çiçek, Özgür and Savaş, Özlem}}, pages = {{111--124}}, publisher = {{Routledge}}, title = {{{A Healing Media System of Care - Cancer Diaries and Social Media}}}, doi = {{https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032647425}}, year = {{2025}}, } @article{54667, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, isbn = {{978-3-8376-6358-7}}, journal = {{Digital Culture & Society }}, pages = {{45--68}}, title = {{{On "Super Likes" and Algorithmic (In)Visibilities: Frictions Between Social and Economic Logics in the Context of Social Media Platforms}}}, doi = {{https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0204}}, volume = {{2/2023}}, year = {{2025}}, } @inbook{51745, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Digitale Schriftlichkeit – Progammieren, Prozessieren und Codieren von Schrift}}, editor = {{Bartelmus, Martin and Nebrig, Alexander}}, publisher = {{transcript }}, title = {{{Vernakulärer Code oder die Geister, die der Algorithmus rief - digitale Schriftlichkeit im Kontext von sozialen Medienplattformen}}}, doi = {{https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839468135-009}}, year = {{2024}}, } @book{51764, editor = {{Adelmann, Ralf and Matzner, Tobias and Miggelbrink, Monique and Schulz, Christian}}, publisher = {{MediaRep}}, title = {{{Filter – Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien der DFG}}}, year = {{2024}}, } @inbook{51746, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Die Fotografie und ihre Institutionen. Von der Lehrsammlung zum Bundesinstitut }}, editor = {{Schürmann, Anja and Yacavone, Kathrin }}, publisher = {{Reimer Verlag}}, title = {{{Vom foto-sozialen Graph zum Story-Format: Über die Institutionalisierung sozialmedialer Infrastruktur aus dem Geiste der Fotografie}}}, doi = {{doi.org/10.5771/9783496030980}}, year = {{2024}}, } @inbook{55117, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, booktitle = {{Glossar zur strategischen Kommunikation Bd. 2}}, editor = {{Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention , Forschungsgruppe Diskursmonitor und Diskursintervention }}, publisher = {{Universi}}, title = {{{Liken}}}, year = {{2024}}, } @article{51743, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, issn = {{1619-1641}}, journal = {{Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften }}, pages = {{65--75}}, publisher = {{Universi Verlag }}, title = {{{From mental models to algorithmic imaginaries to co-constructive mental models}}}, doi = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10428}}, volume = {{2}}, year = {{2023}}, } @article{51744, author = {{Schulz, Christian and Schröter, Jens}}, issn = {{1619-1641}}, journal = {{Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften }}, pages = {{7--14}}, publisher = {{Universi Verlag }}, title = {{{Tech/Imaginations – Introduction}}}, doi = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10428}}, volume = {{2}}, year = {{2023}}, } @book{51740, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, isbn = {{978-3-593-51798-8}}, pages = {{453}}, publisher = {{Campus Verlag }}, title = {{{Infrastrukturen der Anerkennung. Eine Theorie sozialer Medienplattformen }}}, year = {{2023}}, } @article{51345, abstract = {{ The algorithmic imaginary as a theoretical concept has received increasing attention in recent years as it aims at users’ appropriation of algorithmic processes operating in opacity. But the concept originally only starts from the users’ point of view, while the processes on the platforms’ side are largely left out. In contrast, this paper argues that what is true for users is also valid for algorithmic processes and the designers behind. On the one hand, the algorithm imagines users’ future behavior via machine learning, which is supposed to predict all their future actions. On the other hand, the designers anticipate different actions that could potentially performed by users with every new implementation of features such as social media feeds. In order to bring into view this permanently reciprocal interplay coupled to the imaginary, in which not only the users are involved, I will argue for a more comprehensive and theoretically precise algorithmic imaginary referring to the theory of Cornelius Castoriadis. In such a perspective, an important contribution can be formulated for a theory of social media platforms that goes beyond praxeocentrism or structural determinism. }}, author = {{Schulz, Christian}}, issn = {{0163-4437}}, journal = {{Media, Culture & Society}}, keywords = {{Sociology and Political Science, Communication}}, number = {{3}}, pages = {{646--655}}, publisher = {{SAGE Publications}}, title = {{{A new algorithmic imaginary}}}, doi = {{10.1177/01634437221136014}}, volume = {{45}}, year = {{2023}}, } @misc{51741, booktitle = {{Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften }}, editor = {{Schulz, Christian and Schröter, Jens and Ernst, Christoph }}, issn = {{1619-1641}}, pages = {{196}}, publisher = {{Universi Verlag }}, title = {{{Tech/Imaginations}}}, doi = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10428}}, volume = {{2}}, year = {{2023}}, }