Varieties of Cooperation: Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making

Contents
Introduction
1 Mutually Making the Conditions of Mutual Making. An Introduction
	References
Prescriptum
2 Reinventing the Wheel of Media Theory
	2.1 Classical Media Theory
	2.2 Classical Media Theory in the Digital Age
	2.3 The Challenge of Symmetry in Media Theory
	2.4 After the Practice Turn: Media History
	2.5 After the Practice Turn: Theorizing the Computer
	2.6 After the Practice Turn: Theorizing the Media
	2.7 Conclusion
	References
Part I Implementing Information Systems
3 Meta-Infrastructure: Pneumatic Tube Systems, Infrastructural Entanglements and Cooperation in Enterprises from the Late 19th to the 21st Century
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Varieties of Pneumatic Tubes
	3.3 Varieties of Enterprises
	3.4 Interpretations of Modernity
	3.5 Conclusion
	References
4 Patents and Licences: Basic Elements of Cooperation in the Early History of Electronic Data Processing in Europe
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Patents, Licences and Cooperation
	4.3 Background of Magnetic Storage of Data
		4.3.1 Gerhard Dirks: A Non-professional Inventor with Practical Needs
		4.3.2 The Patents D 91,234 IX/43a (Storage Equipment) and D 91,194 IX/43c (Storage of Data)
		4.3.3 Magnetic Storage of Data – Plural Research and Uncertain Patents
	4.4 Negotiating Patents and Licences
		4.4.1 Prior to 1954: Turning A Patent Application into a Licence Agreement
		4.4.2 1954–1957: Monopoly Agreement Dirks/Siemag
		4.4.3 Since 1958: Changing Environments – Plural Agreements
		4.4.4 1960–1966: The End of the Patent
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
Part II Doing Dasein
5 Intimate Pictures
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Absence, Presence and Transnational Social Relationships
	5.3 ‘Participating’ while Absent in Transnational Sibling Relationships
	5.4 Absent Presence through Photographic Practices in Transnational Marital Relationships
	5.5 Conclusion – Mediating Absence and Presence
	References
6 Mainstreaming Zoom: Covid-19, Social Distancing, and the Rise of Video-Mediated Remote Cooperation
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Re-Infrastructuring Disrupted Conditions of Cooperation
		6.2.1 Interruption of Cooperative Practices
		6.2.2 Between Ad hoc Infrastructuring and Infrastructural Inertia
	6.3 How to Infrastructure Remote Collaboration: The Role of Guides
		6.3.1 Staging the Tile View or How to Prepare for Video Calls
		6.3.2 New Methods, Formats, and Procedures for Video-mediated Remote Cooperation
	6.4 Zoom Builds Cooperation and Cooperation Builds Zoom
		6.4.1 The Topological Reorientation of Cooperation Through Digitalization or How Zoom became a Household Name
		6.4.2 Under Construction: Zoom’s Precipitous Transformation and the Evolution of Videoconferencing
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
Part III Cooperating Corpora
7 The Passport as a Medium of Movement
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Bureaucracy as a Means of Negotiating Cooperation: From Local Agreements to Central Registers
		7.2.1 The Passport as a Letter of Recommendation
		7.2.2 The Importance of Citizenship in Modern Nation-states
		7.2.3 The Demand for Central Registers and Methods Standardisation
		7.2.4 The Centrality of the Finnish Population Information System
	7.3 Bodily Traces in Passports
		7.3.1 The Pre-photographic Period—Nineteenth Century to First World War
		7.3.2 The Introduction of Photographs—First World War to the 1950s
		7.3.3 1960–2005: Structuring of the Face
		7.3.4 2006 and After: The Machine-Readable Biometric Passport
	7.4 Discussion: Four Modes of Cooperation
	7.5 Conclusions
	References
8 Entangling Bodies and Objects in the Air
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Methodology
	8.3 Building a Vehicular Unit
	8.4 Accommodating
	8.5 Difficult Co-operations
	8.6 Detaching
	8.7 Conclusion
	References
Part IV Participating and Privacy
9 Information Control and Trust in the Context of Digital Technologies
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Interconnectedness
	9.3 Information Control
	9.4 IT-Security
	9.5 Trust
	9.6 Conclusion
	References
10 Mutually Designing Domestic IT Applications with Older Adults
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Related Work
	10.3 Project Setting and Methods Used
	10.4 Experience-based Participatory Design Workshops (EbPDW)
	10.5 Findings
		10.5.1 Note-taking: Memory and Repetition
		10.5.2 Sharing Material
		10.5.3 Data Transfer Between Devices
		10.5.4 Ever-changing Safety Concerns
		10.5.5 Giving Google Drive a Shot as a Collaborative Learning Tool
		10.5.6 Mixed Purposes of Google Drive: Both Learning Tool and Probe for Data Collection
	10.6 Discussion
	10.7 Conclusion
	References