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Contribution short abstract

The 'Bundle Explorer' is a newly developed research tool, designed for creating and sharing visual knowledge for and together with audiences. The prototype on 'Touch' invites people to explore, visually, the multifarious diversity of ways of touching in digital childhood.

Contribution long abstract

The 'Bundle Explorer' is a research tool designed for creating and sharing visual knowledge for and together with different audiences, fostering a process of communing research by recognizing, respecting, and productively mobilizing different interests and perspectives.

It is a newly developed multimodal interactive online research tool that is based upon Wittgenstein’s language game approach and transforms his idea of a “grammatische Untersuchung” into a “zeigende Grammatik” (Mohn). The 'Bundle Explorer' also draws upon Schatzki's concept of practice-arrangement-bundles, whereby practices and their material arrangements are conceived as bundles of practices and arrangements (Schatzki). The 'Bundle Explorer' extends this idea by analytically bundling practices with practices.

The tool’s template, as well as its first prototype, the 'Bundle Explorer: Touch' were developed by Bina Mohn, Astrid Vogelpohl, and Pip Hare in the project “(Early) Childhood and Smartphone” (PI Jutta Wiesemann, SFB Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen) and can be deployed across diverse research contexts.

Based on short films created through attentive filming and analytically focussed editing, the ‘Bundle Explorer: Touch’ allows to explore the diversity of forms of touch in digital childhoods and the complex relationships between different overlapping (media) spaces: in the field, in research and in the exhibition space.

Link to the 'Bundle Explorer: Touch' (translation to English is in progress):

https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/bundle-explorer

PW: SmartKids