Exkursion in die Coy-Galaxis (Excursion into the Coy-Galaxy)

Grassmuck, Volker Ralf

Exkursion in die Coy-Galaxis (Excursion into the Coy-Galaxy)

Andrea Knaut, Christian Kühne, Constanze Kurz, Jörg Pohle, Rainer Rehak, Stefan Ullrich (Hrsg.), Per Anhalter durch die Turing-Galaxis, MV-Wissenschaft, Münster 2012, S. 9-17

10 Pages Posted: 21 Nov 2012

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Volker Ralf Grassmuck

Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research; freelance

Date Written: May 2012

Abstract

On the occasion of the 65th birthday of informatics professor Wolfgang Coy, the text takes a look back at companions, at themes and at the tides of media events. Along the base media image, script, number, it re-counts the discovery of the computer as a medium, and the naming of its epoch as Turing Galaxy. At the same time, by recalling Coy's programmatic work for an informatics that is conscious of its social responsibility it looks ahead to Shapes of Things to Come. "The order of knowledge is always also a political order." (Coy).

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Keywords: informatics, computer, media, Internet, Wolfgang Coy, Turing Galaxy

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Grassmuck, Volker Ralf and Grassmuck, Volker Ralf, Exkursion in die Coy-Galaxis (Excursion into the Coy-Galaxy) (May 2012). Andrea Knaut, Christian Kühne, Constanze Kurz, Jörg Pohle, Rainer Rehak, Stefan Ullrich (Hrsg.), Per Anhalter durch die Turing-Galaxis, MV-Wissenschaft, Münster 2012, S. 9-17, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2177530