Media as Ecology - Ecology in Media
The Master's degree programme in MediaEcologies, which is taught in English, is a subject- and theory-oriented academic course. On the one hand, it opens up the possibility of understanding media in the sense of ecologies, i.e. not simply as individual media (radio, television, computers, etc.), but also in terms of media networks and milieus. On the other hand, it explores the fact that ecological knowledge, ecological awareness and ecological perception are always based on media-related and mediatised matters, i.e. it demonstrates that it is “the” media that make the problem of the environment recognisable as such in the first place – from photographs of the Blue Planet, by way of maps, graphs and curves, to computer models of climate development. The course therefore shows not only media as ecology, but also the important, if not decisive, role that the media play in ecology.
The thematic focus is thus on issues not only of climate change, but also of digitalisation, updating the past and anticipating the future, always within the framework of the interests of students and teachers.
Participating Chairs
A complete overview of the chairs in the Department of Media Studies can be found » here.
