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Media and History

Overview

Overview

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Weckel

 

This section combines research projects concerning the history of media, the communication and staging of history in mass media, as well as the impact and reception of media representations by the audience. The emphasis is put on interactivity, meaning that media history is pursued as (political) cultural history. Interrelations between the media and its perceptions by historical actors are at the center of interest. Topics of current and planned research projects are: (anti-)colonialism in film, the media's powerful depictions of violence, history in comics, the role of mass media in societal transformation processes, as well as images of the "Orient" and perceptions of Islam in the Western world, to name a few.

Recent Publications

Recent Publications

  • van Laak, Jeannette / Mück, Florentin (eds.) (2016): Sehnsuchtsort Gießen? Erinnerungen an die DDR-Ausreise und den Neubeginn in Hessen. Hrsg. im Auftrag des Magistrats der Universitätsstadt Gießen: Stadt Gießen.
  • Feuchert, Sascha / Thill, Hans / Venske, Regula (2016): "Hinauf in das winzige Zelt von Blau – Writers in Prison/Writers at risk." In: Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kritik "die horen". Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag.
  • Feuchert, Sascha / Roth, Markus / Tromsdorf, Kristine (2016): Mendel Szajnfeld: "Erzähl, was mit uns geschehen ist! Erinnerungen an den Holocaust." In: Studien und Dokumente zur Holocaust- und Lagerliteratur. Berlin: Metropol Verlag.

Activities

Activities

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