German Media Studies (Online)

Freie Universität Berlin

Germany, Berlin Steglitz

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Freie Universität Berlin

Germany , Berlin Steglitz

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

Online

Campuses

Berlin

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines17-Jul-2021

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Tuition Fee

EUR 1,100

Next Intake 17-Jul-2021

German Media Studies (Online)

About

Please visit our website www.fubis.org for any organisational changes that might affect the course programme. The notions of "media", "medium", "mediation" or "mediatisation" have occupied authors in the humanities for decades and have led to the emergence of new university programmes as much as they initiated debates about the boundaries of already existing disciplines. Recently, different authors from the Anglo-American branch of the field have spoken of a newer brand of â€œGerman media theoryâ€. In this course, we will scrutinise this labelling by discussing different historical and contemporary examples in which cultural critics, philologists, philosophers, and artists have undertaken research about media and communication in Germany and, more specifically, in Berlin. We will focus on the period from the 1920s onwards and increasingly move towards the present. As we go along, we will build bridges between historical positions and contemporary ones, providing a sense for continuities and discontinuities in media theoretical positions and formats of media critique. Through the collective experience and critical discussion of texts, films and field trips, students will gain a wide understanding of the problems and objects of media-theoretical inquiry and of its historical and geographical context.