GERST 6445

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GERST 6445
German Media Theories

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This seminar examines German media theories from the Frankfurt School to the Kittler Network and beyond. We will discuss influential concepts associated with this work (e.g., the culture industry, the public sphere, discourse networks), along with related concepts in media and cultural studies (e.g., space and time, analog and digital, old and new media). Theoretical readings address questions about media aesthetics, intermediality, and media change; automation, mechanization, and standardization; and communication, command, and control. Engaging with scholarly debates about interdisciplinarity and theory transfer, we will also revisit and revise reductive stereotypes about media critique, technological determinism, and the "Germanness" of German media theories.

When Offered Fall.

Comments Taught in English.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 6445, STS 6445

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19245 GERST 6445   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Enrollment limited to: graduate students.