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Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe

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Editors:
  1. Norm Friesen

    1. Dept of Educational Technology, Boise State University, Boise, USA

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  • Offers interpretations of recent developments in media and communication studies

  • Is the first to bring together leading media theorists and media philosophers from German-speaking Europe

  • Represents a unique addition to texts related to Friedrich Kittler

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Geopolitics of Media Studies

    • Norm Friesen, Richard Cavell
    Pages 1-12

  3. Theory and Nationality of Media

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. What’s German About German Media Theory?

      • Claus Pias
      Pages 15-27

    3. Disciplining Media Studies: An Expanding Field and Its (Self-)Definition

      • Jens Schröter
      Pages 29-48

  5. Greek Recursions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Innis and Kittler: The Case of the Greek Alphabet

      • Till A. Heilmann
      Pages 91-110

    3. Between Orality and Literacy: Plato’s Hybrid Medium and the Foundations of Media Theory

      • Twyla Gael Gibson
      Pages 111-127

  6. Materiality and Ontology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Innis in the Concertgebouw: Media and Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam

      • Darryl Cressman
      Pages 131-151

    3. Meta/Dia: Two Approaches to the Medial

      • Dieter Mersch
      Pages 153-180
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About this book

This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical developments in media studies, or Medienwissenschaft. It focuses on linkages between North America and German‐speaking Europe, and brings together and contextualizes contributions from a range of leading scholars. In addition to introducing English‐language readers to some of the most prominent contemporary German media theorists and philosophers, including Claus Pias, Sybille Krämer and Rainer Leschke, the book shows how foundational North American contributions are themselves inspired and informed by continental sources. This book takes Harold Innis or Marshall McLuhan (and other members of the “Toronto School”) as central points of reference, and traces prospective and retrospective lines of influence in a cultural geography that is increasingly global in its scope. In so doing, the book also represents a new episode in the international reception and reinterpretation of the work of Innis and McLuhan, the two founders of the theory and study of media.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept of Educational Technology, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    Norm Friesen

About the editor

Norm Friesen (born March 21, 1966) is associate professor in Educational Technology at Boise State University. Norm Friesen studied German Literature, Secondary Education, and Communication at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Alberta and Simon Fraser University (respectively). He has undertaken teaching and research at the University of Toronto, the University of Innsbruck and Athabasca University. He has led the CanCore Learning object metadata initiative from 2003 to 2010, and is co-editor of the peer reviewed open content journal Phenomenology and Practice. Dr. Friesen is also a member of the Canadian delegation to the ISO/IEC JTC1 subcommittee 36, for Learning, Education and Training.[1] Dr Friesen has been involved in Wikiversity research. Dr. Friesen's research interests include media theory, alternative pedagogies, technical e-learning standardization, phenomenology and ethnomethodology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe

  • Editors: Norm Friesen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28489-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28487-3Published: 17 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80362-3Published: 26 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28489-7Published: 09 May 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 213

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Communication Studies, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Printing and Publishing, Media Sociology

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