Publications
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Offene-Welt-Strukturen
(2023)
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of rooms, levels and topographies influence the decisions and behavior of ...
Mixed Reality Images
(2023)
The interplay of physical reality and digital media technologies is getting enhanced by new interfaces. The age of hyper-reality turns into the age of hyper-aesthetics and immersive image technologies – like mixed reality ...
»Antifaschisten, das waren wir …«
(2022)
Without Rosi Wolfstein and Paul Frölich, our image of Rosa Luxemburg would be completely different today. In the 1920s, the couple worked together on the estate of the murdered politician, which made it possible to produce ...
Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten
(2023)
Atmospheres are everywhere: at the workplace, in the soccer stadium, in front of the crackling fireplace. They shape our everyday language and have become quite natural expressions of how we find ourselves in certain ...
Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception
(2024)
Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly in the Global South, there seems to exist a stronger interest in ...
Meme Marketing in Social Media
(2024)
Meme marketing has become a common media practice in the advertising industry. Many companies advertise on social media using memes to generate attention for their brands, products and services and to signal that they are ...
Monopole im medienindustriellen Komplex?
(2023)
Collecting societies such as GEMA, VG Wort and VG Bild-Kunst administer the copyrights of their members on a fiduciary basis. Thanks to a monopoly that has evolved over time, they are now key players in the creative ...
Literatur am Ende
(2024)
Exhausted resources, exhausted art, exhausted science? Signs of exhaustion have been manifesting themselves in a wide variety of discourses for several years, especially since the coronavirus pandemic. Many people feel ...
Zwischen Weltrettung und Marktfähigkeit
(2025)
Ecopreneurs – founders of young start-ups with an ecologically sustainable business model – are seen as the beacons of hope for the sustainable transformation of society. With the combination of idealistic motivation, ...
Immer. Wi(e)der. Universität.
(2023)
This book is a successful attempt to reflect on science policy necessities against the background of an ideal epistemology of universities. The result is an analysis that compares the peculiarities of the university ...
Found Foto-Film
(2022)
In the digital age, we often encounter analog photographs as things that – after having been stored away, lost, or even thrown away – are (re)found. The fascination with such found photographs is reflected in a striking ...
MenschenAffen – AffenMenschen
(2022)
Monkeys are probably the animals with which we most readily identify when it comes to recognizing the human in the animal. Nevertheless, they symbolize, as it were, a fear of human degeneration. The particular human-animal ...
Techniken der Täuschung
(2020)
Katharina Rein's award-winning dissertation in cultural studies is devoted to stage magic in the period from 1860 to 1910 characterized by scientific and technical innovation as well as by a flourishing media culture, the ...
Wie ist Dein Leben in und um Marburg?
(2020)
The research report »How is your life in and around Marburg?« provides extensive insights into experiences of participation and exclusion in the lives of women and girls with impairments. The underlying study is based on ...
Integrationsregime in der Arbeitswelt
(2022)
Marika Pierdicca's doctoral thesis provides an ethnography of migrant self-employment in northern Italy and highlights the link between an increasing neoliberalization of labor and notions of "integration." The study ...
War in Film
(2022)
The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented ...
The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune
(2022)
Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource ...
Tod im Kino
(2022)
In his doctoral dissertation, Christoph Seelinger provides an overview of strategies for legitimizing and functionalizing documentary death scenes in narrative cinema. Seelinger's chronological arc begins with the earliest ...
Medien der Sorge, Techniken des Selbst
(2021)
Can art heal? Jasmin Degeling pursues this question via a redefinition of Michel Foucault’s concepts of the technologies of the self as well as of care of the self through the lenses of media studies. For that purpose she ...
Creative Crowds
(2014)
The notion of fans as hysterical teenagers, aggressive hooligans or nerdy loners has changed drastically. Whereas Trekkies, live-action role-players or Gothics were still viewed critically a few years ago, today everyone ...
Rosa Luxemburg
(2021)
The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth. Even though she met a violent death in the course of the 1918/19 revolution and much has subsequently been done to diminish her memory, her works remain ...
Sampling in der Musikproduktion
(2020)
20 years of dispute over one and a half seconds of copied music? The dispute in the »Metal on Metal« (German: »Metall auf Metall«) case between the music group Kraftwerk and the composer Moses Pelham even occupied the ...
YouTube vs. GEMA
(2021)
»This video is not available in your country.« With this sentence, the video platform YouTube fueled many years of dispute with the German collecting society GEMA. Numerous online discussions focused on the appropriate ...
Rosa Luxemburg
(2021)
Rosa Luxemburg was one of the most important intellectuals of the »long« 19th century, and her work in politics and within the European labor movement was extremely manifold. She understood socialism – especially to the ...
Engels @ 200
(2020)
Friedrich Engels was one of the most important German thinkers of the 19th century and his writings are still important today. Addressing the pressing issues of his time, the broadly interested scholar Engels would write ...
Wirtschaft hacken
(2021)
What if you could do business in a completely different way? For entrepreneur Uwe Lübbermann 20 years ago, this question turned into what has become an ongoing social and economic experiment with his »Getränke & More«-collective ...
Rosa Luxemburg
(2021)
Rosa Luxemburg lived a revolutionary life which determined her theoretical reflections about revolution and the role of the masses within it. The present study provides an analysis of Luxemburg’s thoughts about and experiences ...
Parteiprogramme
(2008)
Why a study of political language use? The most important tool in politics is language, as an instrument with which opinions are articulated and disseminated, with which political decisions and decisions representing the ...
1917 – Die korrumpierte Revolution
(2020)
The Russian Revolution of 1917, which in reality consisted of several uprisings, forms the caesura between the »long« 19th and the »short« 20th century and ushered in the so-called »Age of Extremes« (Eric Hobsbawm). Many ...
Gestörter Film
(2012)
Wes Craven’s »A Nightmare on Elm Street« (1984) enjoys cult status today more than ever. The mere thought of its main character Freddy Krueger still sends shivers down the spines of many viewers – and brings a grin to the ...
Hier sind wir!
(2008)
Here we are! A title that whets the appetite for the perspective of a young feminist, that also wants to invite joint dialogues and provides insights into the historical development of a feminist professional understanding ...
Mediale Entwürfe des Selbst
(2022)
In recent years, new forms of public self-documentation have become popular on social media platforms and especially through so-called influencers, forming their own media cultural microcosm. Even though YouTube has become ...
Trauma als Wissensarchiv
(2022)
In the Brazilian religion Umbanda - which formed in the state of Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of African, indigenous and European religions - communication with spirit beings is central, ...
Old World Blues
(2024)
Since the late 1990s, the US digital role-playing game series »Fallout« has not only been characterized by the popularity and economic success of its five-part main series and its five series spin-offs. It also features ...
»Vrummmummmmm FVISH!«
(2024)
Soundscapes are a key aspect in video games. Addrich Mauch presents a new set of methods for ethnomusicological field research and game sound analysis in game spaces. He aims to explore how gameworlds are created, manipulated, ...
Projektionen des nächsten Menschen
(2025)
For Ray Kurzweil, Google’s head of technical development, the situation is clear: the 21st century is the century of post-humanism. It won’t be long before the imagination of the optimized ›new human‹ is no longer just a ...
Neue Erzählformen in dynamischen Bildtechnologien
(2024)
After a brief phase of playful experimentation, every advance, every major innovation in various media provokes renewed consolidation and aesthetic reflection: we have been familiar with this duality as a separation between ...
Zwischen Welten und Worten
(2024)
How did communication take place in the mission between people of different cultural backgrounds? What interests did Jesuits, indigenous people and Spaniards pursue in the Gran Chaco border region in the Jesuit province ...
Storytelling
(2024)
Narratives have always shaped human experience. As a universal, cross-cultural practice, they have accompanied human history and reflect the diverse attempts to describe life and create meaning. From the earliest oral ...
Cinematic Images
(2024)
The interplay of physical embodiment and digital images is getting enhanced by new media interfaces. The postmodern condition of media communication turns into a mode of hyper-aesthetics, and immersive image technologies ...
Kriegstiere
(2025)
The wars of the British Empire spanned the world and changed the historical development of numerous countries and people. However, countless animals also played an important role in the glory and honor of the Empire in ...
Japans Migrationsgeschichte
(2025)
Visueller Widerstand
(2025)
Ludic Images
(2025)
»Ludic Images« explores the dynamic interplay of moving images, games, and interactive media. In the wake of the digital turn, playful and game-related aesthetics have emerged as central forces in shaping contemporary image ...
Simulakra, Persona, Artefakt
(2025)
In an age where technologies and algorithms increasingly blur the boundaries between the real and the digital, and artificial intelligence shapes our audiovisual culture, it becomes essential to examine the nature and ...
Heaven, Hell, and Everything In-Between
(2025)
Why the British fantasy comedy TV show »Good Omens« – co-produced by the BBC and Amazon Prime – has become such a hit is not at all »ineffable«. The series, based on the beloved novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, ...
Signs of the Right
(2026)
Right-wing extremism is increasingly becoming a threat to the progressive values of Western democracies. The far right, like the rest of society, seems to have moved much of its activity to digital spaces over the last ...
Erlebnis Geschichte
(2026)