course-schedule

Digital Game Studies (Seminar)

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 23.10.2025 - 04.12.2025 | HMS 139
Einzeltermin | Sa, 15.11.2025, 10:00 - Sa, 15.11.2025, 18:00 | extern | Besuch des PLAY-Festival in Hamburg
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 15.01.2026 - 30.01.2026 | HMS 139

Inhalt: In the past two decades, digital games have evolved from a rather marginal phenomenon to a cultural practice that has permeated all areas of society. Building on the first pioneering works of computer game research in media and cultural studies (Pias, Wolf, etc.) at the turn of the millennium, academic research on computer and video games has also become professionalized in recent years and established itself as an academic discipline under the name Computer Game Studies (CGS).   As a young research field, CGS is characterized by its highly interdisciplinary and heterogeneous perspective; on the other hand, its representatives are still busy defining the boundaries of their own discipline, canonizing its basic theoretical approaches, and developing new research perspectives. Building on the classical approaches of a narratological, ludological, or media-technological engagement with computer games, exciting new research questions have emerged in recent years. These include formal-aesthetic questions about space, perspective, or sound in computer games, as well as broader aspects such as the representation of gender in computer games, history in games, games as political media etc.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures

Critical AI Studies (Kolloquium)

Dozent/in: Jan Müggenburg

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 20.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | HMS 139

Inhalt: In this seminar, we will engage with recent publications from the field of Critical AI Studies. At the same time, we will discuss possible topics and ideas for your own research project, which can serve as the basis for your Bachelor’s thesis.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Research Colloquium

New perspectives on Classics in Media Theory (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jan Müggenburg

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 30.10.2025 - 13.11.2025 | HMS 139
Einzeltermin | Do, 27.11.2025, 09:45 - Do, 27.11.2025, 13:15 | HMS 210
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 11.12.2025 - 05.02.2026 | HMS 139

Inhalt: In this seminar, you will be introduced to some of the most influential texts and thinkers in media studies, spanning from early 20th-century mass communication theories to the emergence of digital culture in the 21st century. Together, we will read and discuss key theories about media, mediation, and communication, as well as the relationships between media, culture, and society. In each session, we will closely read and discuss a classic text in the field. To help you prepare, you will receive a secondary text written by a contemporary media studies scholar, providing background information on the classic work and its author.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Recent Developments in Media Theory

Introduction to Digital Media – Stream B (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jan Müggenburg, Anna-Marie Rönsch

Inhalt: Digital Media Studies examine our current situation as significantly structured by digital, computer-based and networked technologies that themselves have been shaped through cultural practices and human knowledge. On the one hand, digital media act as transformative factors on and in cultures. They are transforming human knowledge production as well as practices of connection, relationship, exchange, competition, and communication. On the other hand, human practices and forms of knowledge production facilitate the constant re-configuration of digital media. Therefore, new spaces of possibility and fields of experimentati-on are constantly emerging for us to shape digital technologies and practices of being together, acting, and perceiving. In this introductory course we look at current approaches to research on Digital Media. In addition to the cultural and media studies approaches that are essential for our study programme, you will get to know positions from related fields such as the history of technology, disability studies, science and technology studies or game studies. Each session combines the term “digital cultures” with a verb that refers to a certain aspect of how digital media structure our current situation. At the same time, they can be understood as an opportunity for acting on and shaping digital cultures.

Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Digital Media Studies: Introduction to the Subject Area

Introduction to Digital Media – Stream A (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jan Müggenburg, Anna-Marie Rönsch

Inhalt: Digital Media Studies examine our current situation as significantly structured by digital, computer-based and networked technologies that themselves have been shaped through cultural practices and human knowledge. On the one hand, digital media act as transformative factors on and in cultures. They are transforming human knowledge production as well as practices of connection, relationship, exchange, competition, and communication. On the other hand, human practices and forms of knowledge production facilitate the constant re-configuration of digital media. Therefore, new spaces of possibility and fields of experimentati-on are constantly emerging for us to shape digital technologies and practices of being together, acting, and perceiving. In this introductory course we look at current approaches to research on Digital Media. In addition to the cultural and media studies approaches that are essential for our study programme, you will get to know positions from related fields such as the history of technology, disability studies, science and technology studies or game studies. Each session combines the term “digital cultures” with a verb that refers to a certain aspect of how digital media structure our current situation. At the same time, they can be understood as an opportunity for acting on and shaping digital cultures.

Leuphana Bachelor - Leuphana Semester - Digital Media Studies: Introduction to the Subject Area

Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Jan Müggenburg

Lehrveranstaltungen

Digital Game Studies (Seminar)

Critical AI Studies (Kolloquium)

New perspectives on Classics in Media Theory (Seminar)

Introduction to Digital Media – Stream B (Seminar)

Introduction to Digital Media – Stream A (Seminar)