Sleep (mode). Positions of rest and processing using the example of the smartphone

Sleep is the opposite of the waking state. During sleep, the body is supposed to regenerate and is remarkably extremely active. The smartphone is increasingly intertwined with the body technology of sleep. The interdisciplinary symposium will therefore focus on the different modes of sleep and insomnia using the example of the smartphone, which appears to be an adequate field of exploration for thinking about various states of sleep in the 21st century.

Subsidy programme for conferences for young academics at the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Regensburg

9.00
Solveig Ottmann & Silke Roesler-Keilholz (Regensburg)
Welcoming address

9.10
Ulrike Allouche (Regensburg)
Sleep modes. Reflections on a media theory of sleep

9.40
Tatjana Crönlein (Regensburg)
Digital world and sleep - curse or blessing?

10.10
Coffee break

10.30
Timo Kaerlein (Siegen)
Smartphone-supported reconfigurations of the body technology of sleep

11.00
Laura Altendorfer (Eichstätt) & Alexandra Glufke (Deggendorf)
Smart sleeping - health science considerations and perspectives

11.30
Raymund Fülöp (Regensburg)
Weight (and activity) measurement during sleep

12.00
Lunch break

13.30
Michael Arzt (Head of the Sleep Medicine Centre at the University of Regensburg)
Keynote: Sleep and health

14.00
Stefan Udelhofen (Cologne)
Idle Time - Idle Games. On the playful productivity of smartphones in sleep (mode)

14.30
Coffee break

14.50
Niels Henze (Regensburg)
Deep Sleep. When smartphones start dreaming

15.20
Corinna Peil (Salzburg) & Herbert Schwaab (Regensburg)
Exhausted. Moments of overload in mobile media culture

15.50
Final discussion