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Publications: Stefan Bertschi Books Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society, Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke (eds). Bielefeld: transcript 2005. Selected chapters were reprinted in two special issues of Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 19, 2006 (Guest editors: Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke). German translation: Daumenkultur: Das Mobiltelefon in der Gesellschaft, Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke (eds). Bielefeld: transcript 2006. Anna Blume trifft Zuckmayer. 60 legendäre Dichter in Originalaufnahmen 1901-2004, Stefan Bertschi and Ingo Starz (eds). Munich: Der Hörverlag 2005 (commented 2-CD-edition as exhibition catalogue of ‘Anna Blume trifft Zuckmayer. Dichterstimmen in Tondokumenten 1901-2004’ [Anna Blume meets Zuckmayer. The voices of poets], ‘The Meaning of a Mobile Age: Is It Just Cultural Noise?’, in Kristóf Nyíri (ed.) Mobile Understanding: The Epistemology of Ubiquitous Communication, pp. 239–252. Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2006 (selected paper, prepared for the 2005 Budapest conference). ‘Introduction’ (Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke), in Thumb Culture, op. cit., pp. 11–19. ‘Loading mobile phones in a multi-option society’ (Peter Gross and Stefan Bertschi), in Thumb Culture, op. cit., pp. 189–198. ‘People, mobiles and society: Concluding insights from an international expert survey’ (Peter Glotz and Stefan Bertschi), in Thumb Culture, op. cit., pp. 261–287. ‘Soziale Auswirkungen des Mobilfunks: Gedanken zu Idee und Praxisbezug’ [Social implications of mobile telephony: Concept and practice], in Markus Giordano and Johannes Hummel (eds) Mobile Business. Vom Geschäftsmodell zum Geschäftserfolg – Mit Fallbeispielen zu Mobile Marketing, mobilen Portalen und Content-Anbietern, pp. 429–449. Wiesbaden: Gabler 2005 (invited chapter). ‘Günter Burkart: Handymania. Wie das Mobiltelefon unser Leben verändert hat. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus Verlag 2007’ [Handymania. How the mobile phone has changed our lives], Publizistik: Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung 52(4), 2007: 547–548 (invited book review). Delphi survey on social trends and mobile phone use: Standard report, Peter Glotz and Stefan Bertschi, 2005, University of St. Gallen: Institute for Media and Communications Management. Die Verselbständigung des Computers [The emancipation of the computer], Research project for TA-Swiss, Centre for Technology Assessment, 2004/05, University of St. Gallen: Institute for Media and Communications Management (co-author on the social implications of current and future computer usage). Vorüberlegungen zu einer sozio-ökonomischen Kultur der Verantwortung. Abfall Postmoderne, postmoderner Abfall. Vitamin ‘e’. Der Körper in virtueller Welt – oder: Sind wir nur Text? ‘Nomadenleben liegt nicht allen’. Gedanken zur neuen Arbeit. Hoffnung oder Gefahr? Umwelt und Wissen im Zeitalter des Internet. Drei Fragen zur Trendforschung und der Versuch einer Antwort. Die Zukunft der Handies. Ein Mobilfunk-Ausblick aus dem Jahr 2001. |
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Journal Papers ‘Introduction: Mobile Phones and Mass Communications’ (Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke), Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 19(2), 2006: 3–6. ‘People, Mobiles and Society: Concluding Insights from an International Expert Survey’ (Peter Glotz and Stefan Bertschi), Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 19(2), 2006: 69–92. ‘Tönnies und Gated Communities: “Romantik” oder neoliberale Gegenwart?’ [Tönnies and Gated Communities: ‘Romanticism’ or Neoliberal Present?], Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie [Swiss Journal of Sociology] 32(1), 2006: 75–90. ‘Introduction: Mobile Phones and the Social Order’ (Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi and Chris Locke), Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 19(1), 2006: 3–7. ‘Loading Mobile Phones in a Multi-Option Society’ (Peter Gross and Stefan Bertschi), Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 19(1), 2006: 72–79. ‘Before and After 1968: The Paradox of Post-Structuralist Sociology’, Paper presented at the BSA Theory Study Group conference ‘1968: Impact and Implications’, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, University of London, 3–4 July 2008. ‘Beyond “sociological naturalism”: Nothing new after Simmel and Weber?’, Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference ‘Social Worlds, Natural Worlds’, University of Warwick, 28–30 March 2008. ‘Convergence as Religion: Is There Morale in Telecommunications?’, Paper presented at the conference ‘Towards a Philosophy of Telecommunications Convergence’, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 27–29 September 2007. ‘Without Knowledge Visualization? Proposing a Deconstructivist Approach to
Metaphor, Meaning and Perception’, in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Visualisation, Zurich, 4–6 July 2007, pp. 342–347. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. ‘From mobile phones to nanotechnology: Is there a need for pattern recognition?’, Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference ‘Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships’, University of East London, 12–14 April 2007. ‘Being inside or being left out: Neoliberal communities behind gates’, Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference ‘Sociology, Social Order(s) and Disorder(s)’, Harrogate, 21–23 April 2006. ‘Civilization as an aesthetic conception of society: Learning from Elias?’, Paper presented at the ‘Elias in the 21st Century’ conference, University of Leicester, 10–12 April 2006. ‘Linguistic Learning. A New Conceptual Focus in Knowledge Visualization’ (Stefan Bertschi and Noah Bubenhofer), in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, 6–8 July 2005, pp. 383–389. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. ‘The Meaning of a Mobile Age: Is It Just Cultural Noise?’, Paper presented at the conference ‘Seeing, Understanding, Learning in the Mobile Age’, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 28–30 April 2005. ‘Workshop on mobile phones: Mobile communications and a culture of thumbs: Trends and concerns’, Science Museum London, 19–20 July 2004 (organiser and co-moderator, with Peter Glotz, of an international expert workshop as part of the research project ‘Thumb Culture’). ‘Neoliberaler Kommunitarismus? Das Phänomen der Gated Communities’ [Neoliberal communitarianism? Gated communities as a phenomenon], Paper presented at the Swiss Sociological Association conference ‘Triumph und Elend des Neoliberalismus’, University of Zurich, 1–3 October 2003. |
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