LFU:online

Exemplary examination of a central topic at the intersection of literature and media studies. Independent reflection and analysis of the roll of different media for the production, distribution and reception of literature based on profound knowledge.

For several decades, the term digitalization has been used to negotiate a social transformation and what is probably the greatest change in media history since the invention of the  printing press. A transformation, which leaves no area of ​​our lives unchanged and reconfigures society and culture. This also applies to storytelling in various media formations. How we tell stories, which stories we tell changes through existing and at least conceivable technologies. This was already evident in the genre of cyberpunk in the 1980s, and in the context of academia, thinkers such as Jean Baudrillard, Marshall McLuhan or Jean-François Lyotard had already dealt with the possible effects of an 'informatized' society. This course would like to trace the narrative about digitalization and thus the great narrative of the digital from the perspective of media history and theory as well as from the perspectives of literature, film and games.

Lecture, exercises, discussion

Presentations,  knowledge of the texts, participation, term paper

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