Prof. Dr. Urte Undine Frömming

M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology

Background

Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming is a professor at the Media University, University for Media, Communication and Management in Berlin. She received her doctorate in 2005 from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Phil.). She worked as a professor at Freie Universität Berlin from 2009 to 2021 (including heading the Visual Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology department). She is head of the Humanities department at Media University Berlin with the two courses M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Societies and M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology. Prof. Dr. Frömming is an environmental anthropologist specializing in climate and disaster research. She has conducted several visual-anthropological field studies in eastern Indonesia, eastern Africa (Tanzania), and Iceland. She has also published numerous articles and books on digital anthropology, artificial nature, virtual environments, climate change, and natural disasters. She was a principal investigator for the third-party-funded LION project. Digital Learning Environments for Social and Cultural Sciences at the National University Kyiv Mohala Academy (NaUKMA) in the funding line Ukraine Digital and the research project ANIK Alpine Natural Hazards in Times of Climate Change (BMBF). Furthermore, she received funding from the European Union for the project WRITER. Writing, Reading, Inclusion. The European Richness. She also received funding for the joint project (with partners from Latin American countries) for the project SPRING. Social Responsibility through Prosociality-based Internevions to Generate equal opportunities funded by the European Commission EureopeAid, section ALFA III.

Publications

  • Frömming, Urte Undine (ed.) 2023 Artificial Intelligence Technology and Culture. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Vol. 8, 2023 (im Druck).
  • Frömming, Urte Undine, Ana Correa, Daniel Wood (eds.) 2022: Intersecting Virtualities: Applied Research on Digital Anthropology and Virtual Environments. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology Vol 7. 2022.
  • 2021 Frömming, Urte Undine, Wood, Leandro Goddinho, Blake Paul Kendall, Daniel Wood (eds.) Journal oof Visual and Media Anthropology Vol 6, Nr. 1, 2021 Social Media Activism and Algorithmic Communities: From Grassroots and Indigenous Mobilization to Digital Revolution. https://www.hmkw.de/hochschule/fachbereiche/humanities/journals/vma-journal-vol-6-2021
  • 2021 Frömming, Urte Undine and Daniel Wood: Social Media Activism and Networked Desires. Politics and Performance on Grassroots and Indigenous Networks. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology, Vol. 6, No.1, 2021, pp. 2-8. https://www.hmkw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/hmkw-berlin-visual-and-media-anthropology-journal-volume-6-2021-introduction-20-12.pdf
  • 2020 Frömming, Urte Undine together with Kendall, Blake, Goddinho Leandro (eds.) Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology Vol. 5 (2020) Special Issue: Screencast as a Method of Remote Ethnography.
  • 2020 Frömming, Urte Undine together with Kendall, Blake, Goddinho Leandro, (2020) Digital Anthropology in the time of Corona: 1.5-meter social distancing & the mediated gap in between. Introduction in: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology Vol 5 (2020), page 1-7.
  • 2019 Frömming, Urte Undine, Hedrick, Nena, Ezekiel Morgan (eds.): Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Vol 4, Special Issue: New Cultures of Tracking, Live Streaming, Sharing, Liking and Commenting.
  • 2018 Frömming, Urte Undine, Nena Hedrick, Ezekiel Morgan: Introduction: Immersive Technologies and User Generated Content: From Environmental and Social Media Education and Activism to Digital Bodies. In: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Vol 4 (1), 2018, pp: 1-5.
  • 2017 Frömming, Urte Undine, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds): Digital Environments. Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld http://www.transcript-verlag.de/en!/978-3-8376-3497-6/digital-environments
  • 2017 Frömming, Urte Undine et al. Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography. An Introduction. In: Frömming, Köhn, Fox, Terry (eds): Digital Environments. Transcript. Bielefeld. Link to article
  • 2017 Frömming, Urte Undine, Köhn, Steffen; Terry, Mike (eds.): Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Vol 3: Inhabiting Digital Environments: Social Influencers, Virtual World Gamers and Digital Immigrants. ISSN: 2366-4975
  • 2016 Frömming, Urte Undine, Köhn, Steffen, Terry, Mike: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Special Issue: Augmented Digital Lives Vol. 2, No. 1 (2016) – ISSN: 2366-4975 – URL: http://www.visual-anthropology.fu-berlin.de/journal/Vol_2_1_2016/index.html
  • 2016 Frömming, Urte Undine, Köhn, Steffen, Terry, Mike: Introduction: Experiences in Mobilty, Big Data and Robotics. Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Special Issue: Augmented Digital Lives Vol. 2, No. 1 (2016) – ISSN: 2366-4975 – URL: http://www.visual-anthropology.fu-berlin.de/journal/Vol_2_1_2016/index.html pp: 1-6
  • 2016 Peacemaking rituals in the context of natural disaster. A study of the Cultural Appropriation of Potentially Dangerous Spaces in Nusa Tenggaraa, Flores, Indonesia. In: Special issue: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology. Spatial turns in religion and the environment. Bergmann, Sigurd (ed.) In: Worldviews 20 (2016): 286-299. DOI: 10.1163/15685357-02003006
  • 2015 Frömming, Urte Undine; Köhn, Steffen; Mike Terry (Hrsg.): Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. Special issue: Researching Mobile Media Technology. Vol. 1, No. 1 (2015)
  • 2015 Frömming, Urte Undine; Köhn, Steffen: The Anthropology of Mobile Technology. Smartphones, Wearables and Networked Selves. Intrdocution to: Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology. – Vol. 1 (2015), No. 1, pp. 1-7. ISSN: 2366-4975.
  • 2015 Frömming, Urte Undine. Rez. zu: Bergmann, Sigurd: Religion, Space, and the Environment. New Brunswick 2014. In: Anthropos. – 110 (2015), 1, S. 213-214.
  • 2014 Frömming, Urte Undine und Christian Reichel: Participatory Mapping of Local Knowledge. Example from Switzerland. In: International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 5:41-54; Special Issue: Fekete, Alexander und Gabriele Hufschmidt (ed.): “Resilience and Vulnerability – What is the Usage of these concepts for disaster management? DOI: 10.1007/s13753-014-0013-6. – URL:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-014-0013-6
  • 2013 Urte Undine Frömming (Hg.) Virtual Environments and Cultures. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag
  • 2013 Urte Undine Frömming. Photography in Africa. Ethnographic Perspectives. Richard Vokes (ed.) Review In: AFRICA. Journal of the International African Institute
  • 2013 Urte Undine Frömming. Störungen. Medien Prozesse, Körper. Fleischhack, Rottmann (Hg.) Rezension für Anthropos 1: 2013
  • 2012 Frömming, Urte Undine: Feldforschung mit der Kamera. Der Masterstudiengang Visual and Media Anthropology am Institut für Ethnologie der Freien Universität Berlin. In: Ballhaus, Edmund (Hg.): Dokumentarfilm: Schulen – Projekte – Konzepte. Dietrich Reimer Verlag
  • 2011 Urte Undine Frömming: Visuellanthropologische Betrachtung von Mimesis und Camouflage am Beispiel der Arbeiten von Desiree Palmen. In Ilinx- Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft 2/2011.
  • 2011 Frömming, Urte Undine und Reichel, Christian: Indigenous people under climate change. Regional examples. In: Bergmann, Sigurd und Gerten, Dieter. Religion in global Climate and Environmental Change. Continuum
  • 2010 Urte Undine Frömming: Künstliche Natur. Feldforschung in virtuellen Kulturen und Landschaften. In: Schultz, Dorothea und Seebode, Jochen (Hg.)  Prisma und Spiegel: Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Hamburg, 302-316
  • 2009 Kilimanjaro’s Melting Glaciers. On the Colonial and Postcolonial Perception and Appropriation of African Nature. In: Neveling, Patrick, Wergin, Carsten: Large Scale Tourism in Small Scale Societies, special issue in Etnográfica 13 (2): 395-416, Nov. 2009. Link zum Artikel
  • 2009 Conflicts between stakeholder groups affecting the ecology and economy of the Segara Anakan region (together with Reichel, Christian; Glaser, Marion) in: Regional Environmental Change, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • 2008 Urte Undine Frömming. Klimawandel und kulturhistorische Prädispositionen. Über den Wandel der ästhetischen und affektiven Wahrnehmung von Umwelt und Naturgefahren in der okzidentalen Moderne. In: Herrmann, Bernd (ed.), Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007-2008, 65-85.
    Lexikonbeitrag 2005 “Volcanoes” (mit Judith Schlehe) Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Tylor et al. (Hg.), Continuum International, London, New York
  • 2007 Frömming, U. (ed.): “Digitale Welten” (special issue, guest editor) in: Journal Ethnologie 5/2007
  • 2007 A personal rainstorm in my Inventory. Über kulturelle Ursachen, Wirkungen und die sinnliche Wahrnehmung von Second Life und anderen virtuellen Welten – eine sozialanthropologische Untersuchung, in: Journal Ethnologie, Themenschwerpunkt Digitale Welten.
  • 2006 Naturkatastrophen. Kulturelle Deutung und Verarbeitung. Campus Verlag.
  • 2005: Von Traumfischern und Sibirientestern. Gemischte Gedanken einer Ethnologin zu TV-Erlebnisdokumentation In: Journal Ethnologie; Themenschwerpunkt: Visuelle Anthropologie Hg. Ulrike Krasberg
  • 2005: Der Zwang zum Geständnis. Friedensrituale und Mythologie im Kontext von Naturkatastrophen auf Flores (Ostindonesien). In: Anthropos 100:2005: 379-388.
  • 2004 Urte Undine Frömming. Schneeschmelze am Kilimanjaro. Über die touristische Aneignung afrikanischer Natur in der ästhetischen Moderne. In: Dilger, Hansjörg, Wolf, Angelika, Frömming Urte Undine, Volker-Saad, Kerstin (Hg.): Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation. Schrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Ute Luig, Berlin: Weißensee Verlag, 258-274
  • 2004 Urte Undine Frömming (ed.) Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation. Ethnologische Schrift für Ute Luig zum 60. Geburtstag, Hg. gemeinsam mit Dilger, Hansjörg, Wolf, Angelika, Volker-Saad, Kerstin, Berlin: Weißensee Verlag
  • 2004 Urte Undine Frömming. Einleitung: Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation in einer vernetzten Welt. (zusammen mit: Dilger, Hansjörg) In: Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation. Schrift für Ute Luig zum 60. Geburtstag. Hg. von Dilger, Hansjörg, Wolf Angelika, Frömming, Urte Undine, Volker-Saad Kerstin, Berlin: Weißensee, 1-17
  • 2002: Vulkane und Gesellschaft. Naturaneignung auf Flores, Indonesien. In: Luig, Ute und H.D. Schultz (Hg.): Natur in der Moderne. Interdisziplinäre Ansichten. Berliner Geographische Arbeiten 93.
  • 2001 Urte Undine Frömming. Volcanoes: Symbolic Places of Resistance. Political Appropriation of Nature in Flores, Indonesia. In: Wessel, Ingrid; Wimhöfer, Georgia(Hg.): Violence in Indonesia, Hamburg: Abera