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Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Gertrud Koch


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Critical Theories of Mass Media (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Gertrud Koch

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Mo, 20.04.2026, 14:15 - Mo, 20.04.2026, 19:45 | C 12.107 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Di, 21.04.2026, 10:15 - Di, 21.04.2026, 13:45 | C 14.204 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mo, 11.05.2026, 14:15 - Mo, 11.05.2026, 19:45 | C 12.107 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Di, 12.05.2026, 10:15 - Di, 12.05.2026, 13:45 | C 14.204 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Mo, 08.06.2026, 14:15 - Mo, 08.06.2026, 19:45 | C 12.107 Seminarraum
Einzeltermin | Di, 09.06.2026, 10:15 - Di, 09.06.2026, 13:45 | C 1.312 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The rise of mass media from print to social media was accompanied by critical discourses that emphasized both euphoric acclamation for the new media and emphatic warnings about the dangers. We will discuss how these critiques are conceptualized in terms of technics, culture, media and of the mass in three blocks, each based on the emergence of a specific medium and its technology. Starting with the rise of mass theories in the twenties of the 20th century the focus is on the classic texts and its issues: Bernays and Freud on Mass Psychology; Dewey and Lippmann on the public in Democracy; Benjamin on the mass in Paris and in literature by Poe and E.T.A. Hoffman; Kracauer on the mass ornament and Adorno on the culture industry. From there we go further to the digital and new media. The main focus is the reconstruction of basic notions in the critique of mass media and the analysis of specific works.