Publications
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Storytelling
(2024)
Narratives have always shaped human experience. As a universal, cross-cultural practice, they have accompanied human history and reflect the diverse attempts to describe life and create meaning. From the earliest oral ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zwischen Welten und Worten
(2024)
How did communication take place in the mission between people of different cultural backgrounds? What interests did Jesuits, indigenous people and Spaniards pursue in the Gran Chaco border region in the Jesuit province ...
Japans Migrationsgeschichte
(2025)
Migration and nationalism are two historical phenomena that strongly influence each other. Using selected global historical examples of Japanese migration history – such as Japanese migrants in the USA, Brazil or Korea – ...
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 ...
Meme Marketing in Social Media
(2024)
Meme marketing has become a common media practice in the advertising industry. Many companies advertise on social media using memes to generate attention for their brands, products and services and to signal that they are ...
Cinematic Images
(2024)
The interplay of physical embodiment and digital images is getting enhanced by new media interfaces. The postmodern condition of media communication turns into a mode of hyper-aesthetics, and immersive image technologies ...
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 ...
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 ...
Projektionen des nächsten Menschen
(2025)
For Ray Kurzweil, Google’s head of technical development, the situation is clear: the 21st century is the century of post-humanism. It won’t be long before the imagination of the optimized ›new human‹ is no longer just a ...
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, ...
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 ...
Neue Erzählformen in dynamischen Bildtechnologien
(2024)
After a brief phase of playful experimentation, every advance, every major innovation in various media provokes renewed consolidation and aesthetic reflection: we have been familiar with this duality as a separation between ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten
(2023)
Atmospheres are everywhere: at the workplace, in the soccer stadium, in front of the crackling fireplace. They shape our everyday language and have become quite natural expressions of how we find ourselves in certain ...