Publications
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...