Neighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schellings wellknown study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across disciplines. Up to now, research has focused on macrolevel behaviors that, together, form rigid systems of neighborhood relations. But can neighborhoods, conversely, affect larger, global dynamics? This volume introduces the concept of neighborhood technologies as a model for intermediate, or meso-level, research into the links between local agents and neighborhood relations. Bridging the sciences and humanities, Tobias Harks and Sebastian Vehlken have assembled a group of contributors who are either natural scientists with an interest in interdisciplinary research or tech-savvy humanists. With insights into computer science, mathematics, sociology, media and cultural studies, theater studies, and architecture, the book will inform new research.

Sebastian Vehlken studierte Film- und Fernsehwissenschaften, Publizistik und Wirtschaftswissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und Media Studies an der Edith Cowan University in Perth. Seit Oktober 2010 ist er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am ICAM Institut für Kultur und Ästhetik Digitaler Medien der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Seine Interessensbereiche sind: Theorie und Geschichte Digitaler Medien, Medientheorie, Kybernetik und selbstorganisierende Systeme, Medien in der Biologie, Think Tanks und Beraterwissen, die Mediengeschichte des Sonars und Ozeane als Wissensräume.

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