De Gruyter Handbook of Media Futures

Jens Schröter is Chair for Media Studies at the University of Bonn since 2015. His main research interests are theories and histories of digital media, theories and histories of photography, three-dimensional images, (meta-)media theories and economic theories, future media and media of the future, audio media and auditory culture, and mushroom Studies / Interspecies and Exo-Media. Recent books include Medien und Ökonomie (2019), Media Futures. Theory and Aesthetics (2021, with Christoph Ernst), and Beyond Quantity: Research with Subsymbolic AI (2023, with Andreas Sudmann et al.).

 Christoph Ernst is a research assistant (tenured) at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Bonn. His main research interests are diagrammatic thinking and interface studies (especially cognition and tacit knowledge), future media and theory of sociotechnical imagination, aesthetics and theory of visual media (especially film and television), and media and the military (especially autonomous weapon systems). Among his publications are Diagramme zwischen Metapher und Explikation – Studien zur Medien- und Filmästhetik der Diagrammatik (transcript, 2021); Media Futures: An Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); Tech | Demo (edited with Julia Eckel and Jens Schröter, Universi, 2023); Diagrammatic Operations (edited with Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang and Alice Soiné, 2023).

 Lea Klingberg is a research assistant at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Bonn. In her PhD project ‘Capitalist production in times of automation through artificial intelligence’, she examines the significance of imaginaries concerning modern automation technologies in relation to the future of our economic and social order. Her research interests include Marxist and critical media theory, as well as artificial intelligence and automation.