Media Studies

An imposing examination of the relationship between structures of power and the notion of agency among the subaltern, by looking at how the Arab television news represented the Syrian women's experiences during the Syrian conflict.

The start of social media in 1992: A ground-breaking examination of an equally ground-breaking media experiment.

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of 24 hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called »Turks Deliverance Celebration« (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and weaved into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.

Which strategies of external communication do conflict parties use during asymmetric conflicts and what shapes the selection of these communication strategies?

Informative essays on more than 70 films (including numerous images) offering a broad overview on melodramas worldwide.

An outline of the developing and maintaining effects of labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations on the Internet in post-socialist Lithuania.

Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels – how can this algorithmic power be broken?

This issue examines the surveillance and platform capitalism with regard to networked images by social media, streaming, or videoconferencing platforms.

This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.

This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.