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.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 356
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Digital Humanities
Publication Date:
06 June 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 6.34 in
ISBN: 9783837656015
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
»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.«
Simon Ganahl (Mag. DDr. phil.), born in 1981, researches and teaches at the University of Vienna as a literature and media scholar with a focus on digital humanities. He directs the digital mapping project Campus Medius and edits the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Genealogy+Critique. After studies in Vienna, Hamburg, and Zurich, he obtained PhD degrees both in communication science and in German philology at the University of Vienna. He was a visiting researcher in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York and a visiting lecturer in the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA. His research work has received several awards and grants (e.g., APART from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Schrödinger from the Austrian Science Fund).
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
1. Topography: Campus Medius 1.0 17
2. Topology: Campus Medius 2.0 28
3. Data Model and Infrastructure 36
4. Mapping Modern Media 44
1. Aspern Airfield 53
2. Lion of Aspern 58
3. Lassalle Hof 59
4. Adolf Hitler House 61
5. UFA Ton Kino 62
6. Burgtheater 65
7. Engelmann Arena 68
8. Friedensbrücken Kino 71
9. Neue Freie Presse 74
10. Schönbrunn Palace Gardens 76
11. Tonkino Fischer 83
12. Karl Marx Hof 85
13. Radio Wien 87
14. German Embassy 90
15. Schwarzenbergplatz 92
1. How to Use Reason: Sovereign Signs 95
2. How to Capture Life: Examining Gazes 182
3. How to Speak Up: Governed Transmissions 248
1. List of Figures 318
2. List of Sources 329
3. Project Team 352
