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Neighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling´s 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.

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7 - 8 Acknowledgements9 - 16 Neighborhood Technologies (Tobias Harks, Sebastian Vehlken)19 - 36 Neighborhoods in Mathematical Optimization and Algorithmic Game Theory (Tobias Harks, Martin Hoefer)37 - 66 Ghetto Blasts (Sebastian Vehlken)67 - 78 Neighborhoods in Traffic (Sándor Fekete)81 - 96 Neighborhood Design (Christina Vagt)97 - 106 Digitally-Driven Design and Architecture (Henriette Bier)109 - 150 Economics 2.0 (Dirk Helbing)151 - 164 Neighborhoods and Social Security (Manfred Füllsack)165 - 184 Towards a Media History of the Credit Card (Sebastian Gießmann)187 - 196 Neighborhood Sounding (Shintaro Miyazaki)197 - 214 Digital Swarming and Affective Infrastructures (Carolin Wiedemann)215 - 226 Choreographing the Swarm (Gabriele Brandstetter)227 - 232 Authors

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Vehlken, Sebastian
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.

Harks, Tobias
Tobias Harks studierte Mathematik an der Universität Münster von 1998 bis 2003. 2007 erhielt er seinen PhD an der Technischen Universität Berlin Seit 2011 ist er Assistant Professor an der Universität Maastricht.

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