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Campus Medius

Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies

Simon Ganahl author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:27th Jun '22

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Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called »Turks Deliverance Celebration« (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.

»Precisely because it is so difficult to reconstruct and present the most diverse facets of an issue in their interactions at the same time, one of the undeniable merits of this approach is to concede the historical subject its multidimensionality, not to reduce it to one-dimensional perspectives. [...] Undoubtedly, the project points the way that will (also) have to be taken in the new historiographical age. [...] Formally, it remains to be noted that the text is formulated in a markedly comprehensible manner, despite the sometimes quite complex subject matter, radiating high professional competence and linguistic mastery.« Wolfgang Pensold, medien & zeit, 38/1 (2023), translated from German »›Campus Medius‹ takes a scholarly, sophisticated, and highly innovative step in pushing German(-language) digital humanities forward, with its intriguing insights spanning German and Austrian Studies, Media Studies, and cultural history more broadly - while exploring the rich intersections between and among all four of those fields.« Jaimey Fisher, The German Quarterly, 96/2 (2023) »The reader or user encounters a fascinating panorama of Austrian cultural history between the wars. ›Campus Medius‹ offers a stimulating new approach to Austrian Studies and a very high level of fruitful theoretical insights and reflection. The project demonstrates the great potential of independent digital research in the humanities: We need more of this.« Christian Zolles, Journal of Austrian Studies, 56/2 (2023) »Simon Ganahl achieves a great feat: one not only reads about the phenomenon of medial experiences, but also experiences them first-hand, including all the differentiations. This makes an immersion in Campus Medius a gain not only from a scientific but also a personal perspective and should be imitated many times over.« Erkan Osmanovic, medienimpulse, 60/3 (2022), translated from German Audio: »An attempt to advance the publication system in the humanities« - Simon Ganahl in the Research Library Podcast from April 4, 2022. Besprochen in: Interview with the author on Ö1, Salzburger Nachtstudio, 21.09.2022

ISBN: 9783837656015

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm

Weight: 595g

356 pages