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Graduates are enabled to question the tension between communication, media technologies and democracy. They are able to locate processes triggered by technological advances in terms of media history, to name their current specifics and to identify relevant fields of action.

Providing basic knowledge about theories and models of media dynamics and the complexity of social transformation processes associated with digitisation, medialisation, globalisation and individualisation.

It is a truism that social change and the development of new technologies and media go hand in hand. But it is more difficult to answer the question of how and who shapes, influences or even controls these developments and changes - if at all. Do smart engineers and clever programmers determine our society? Or do society, the environment, the climate or political constraints challenge certain developments and innovations?  Does media development influence social practices? Or do social practices determine what media we develop? Is social change driven by the invention of new technologies? Or do existing technologies encounter changing social conditions in order to take hold? How can technology development and social change be theoretically modeled if no simple answer can be given to these questions?
We will deal with these and more questions within this seminar.

- close-reading
- Presentations
- Group-work
- session patronage
- explorative learning
- Film viewing

-    Combination of thesis paper, presentation/session patronage, term paper

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"Active bachelor's programme"
The minor “Media and Communication” covering 30 ECTS-Credits can be selected by degree students  of  Bachelor’s  programmes  at  the  University  of  Innsbruck,  providing  the  relevant curriculum allows for the option to pass a minor.