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See detailThe Rise of Television: Institutionalization and the Framing of National Audiences
Fickers, Andreas UL; Weber, Anne-Katrin; Mustata, Dana

in Arnold, Klaus; Preschton, Pascal; Kinnebrock, Susanne (Eds.) The Handbook of European Communication History (2020)

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See detailDeutsch-französische soap opera an der Saar: die Anfänge des kommerziellen Rundfunks im Saarland (Tele-Saar und Europe no 1)
Fickers, Andreas UL

in Ziegler, Volker (Ed.) Das Europe 1 Sendezentrum im Saarland / Berus Überherrn (2020)

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See detailMaking Europe - Looking at the history of Europe in the long twentieth century through the lens of technology
Fickers, Andreas UL

in Contemporanea: Rivista di Storia dell'800 e del '900 (2020), 23(1), 122-128

Science and technology are at the very heart of the European project. But how to write a history of Europe in the making when using technology as an actor category and lens of analysis? This is the ... [more ▼]

Science and technology are at the very heart of the European project. But how to write a history of Europe in the making when using technology as an actor category and lens of analysis? This is the driving narrative behind Making Europe: Technology and Transformations (1850-2000) – a sixvolume series on the history of Europe in the «long twentieth century»1. All volumes in the series are co-authored by two or three authors and are the result of an intense debate and discussion amongst all people involved in this collective endeavor. As the series editors Johan Schot and Phil Scranton emphasize in the introduction to the series, Making Europe aims at providing a novel perspective on European history by decentering the European Union and its many predecessors and by placing the complex, desynchronized and multilayered process of Europeanization in a long-term historical perspective. [less ▲]

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See detailZwischentöne. 100 Jahre Ostbelgien (1920-2020). 8 Radioessays
Brüll, Christoph UL; Fickers, Andreas UL

Book published by Grenz-Echo Verlag (2020)

Seit nunmehr 100 Jahren ist das heutige Ostbelgien Teil des Belgischen Königreichs. Diesen Jahrestag haben die beiden Historiker Christoph Brüll und Andreas Fickers zum Anlass genommen, gemeinsam mit dem ... [more ▼]

Seit nunmehr 100 Jahren ist das heutige Ostbelgien Teil des Belgischen Königreichs. Diesen Jahrestag haben die beiden Historiker Christoph Brüll und Andreas Fickers zum Anlass genommen, gemeinsam mit dem BRF in 8 Radioessays in die ostbelgische Vergangenheit hineinzuhorchen. Die bislang kaum erforschten Tonarchive des BRF haben sich als herausragende Quelle erwiesen, um Zwischentöne hörbar zu machen und so Stimmen und Stimmungen aus der bewegten ostbelgischen Vergangenheit wieder zu beleben. Die in diesem Band versammelten Sendemanuskripte bieten keine ostbelgische Chronik. Vielmehr sollen sie zum Nachdenken über Geschichte anregen, darüber, wie historische Deutungen entstehen und auch, warum es sich lohnt, sich mit der Geschichte des ostbelgischen Zwischenraums als europäische Geschichte en miniature zu beschäftigen. [less ▲]

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See detailUpdate für die Hermeneutik. Geschichtswissenschaft auf dem Weg zur digitalen Forensik?
Fickers, Andreas UL

in Zeithistorische Forschungen (2020), 17(1), 157-168

»[…] wenn ›die Quelle‹ die Reliquie historischen Arbeitens ist – nicht nur Überbleibsel, sondern auch Objekt wissenschaftlicher Verehrung –, dann wäre analog ›das Archiv‹ die Kirche der ... [more ▼]

»[…] wenn ›die Quelle‹ die Reliquie historischen Arbeitens ist – nicht nur Überbleibsel, sondern auch Objekt wissenschaftlicher Verehrung –, dann wäre analog ›das Archiv‹ die Kirche der Geschichtswissenschaft, in der die heiligen Handlungen des Suchens, Findens, Entdeckens und Erforschens vollzogen werden.« Achim Landwehr wirft in seinem geschichtstheoretischen Essay den Historikern ihren »Quellenglauben« vor – diese Kritik ließe sich im digitalen Zeitalter leicht auf die Heilsversprechen der Apostel der »Big Data Revolution« übertragen. Zwar regen sich mittlerweile vermehrt Stimmen, die den »Wahnwitz« der digitalen Utopie in Frage stellen, doch wird der öffentliche Diskurs weiterhin von jener Revolutionsrhetorik dominiert, die standardmäßig als Begleitmusik neuer Technologien ertönt. Statt in der intellektuell wenig fruchtbaren Dichotomie von Gegnern und Befürwortern, »First Movers« und Ignoranten zu verharren, welche die Landschaft der »Digital Humanities« ein wenig überspitzt auch heute noch kennzeichnet, ist das Ziel dieses Beitrages eine praxeologische Reflexion, die den Einfluss von digitalen Infrastrukturen, digitalen Werkzeugen und digitalen »Quellen« auf die Praxis historischen Arbeitens zeigen möchte. Ausgehend von der These, dass ebenjene digitalen Infrastrukturen, Werkzeuge und »Quellen« heute einen zentralen Einfluss darauf haben, wie wir Geschichte denken, erforschen und erzählen, plädiert der Beitrag für ein »Update« der klassischen Hermeneutik in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Die kritische Reflexion über die konstitutive Rolle des Digitalen in der Konstruktion und Vermittlung historischen Wissens ist nicht nur eine Frage epistemologischer Dringlichkeit, sondern zentraler Bestandteil der Selbstverständigung eines Faches, dessen Anspruch als Wissenschaft sich auf die Methoden der Quellenkritik gründet. [less ▲]

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See detailIntroduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy
Fickers, Andreas UL; Balbi, Gabriele

in Fickers, Andreas; Balbi, Gabriele (Eds.) History of the International Telecoommunication Union (ITU): Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet (2020)

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still ... [more ▼]

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the fi eld of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the offi cial seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fi elds of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future. [less ▲]

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See detailEurope Materializing? Auf dem Weg zu einer transnationalen Geschichte der europäischen Infrastrukturen
Fickers, Andreas UL; Badenoch, Alexander

in Wagner, Hedwig (Ed.) Europäische Medienwissenschaft. Zur Programmatik eines Fachs (2020)

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See detailHistory of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet.
Fickers, Andreas UL; Balbi, Gabriele

Book published by De Gruyter (2020)

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still ... [more ▼]

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the fi eld of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the offi cial seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fi elds of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future. [less ▲]

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See detailDigital Public History in Luxemburg
Fickers, Andreas UL

Presentation (2019, December 02)

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See detailInside the Trading Zone: Thinkering at C²DH digital history Lab
Fickers, Andreas UL

Presentation (2019, October 03)

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See detailDilthey Reloaded. Für eine digitale Hermeneutik in den Geisteswissenschaften
Fickers, Andreas UL

Presentation (2019, June 17)

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See detailCultures of memory and practices of forgetting in the digital age
Fickers, Andreas UL

Presentation (2019, March 05)

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See detailDie Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa - eine Einleitung.
Fickers, Andreas UL; Franz, Norbert; Laux, Stephan

in Laux, Stephan; Fickers, Andreas; Franz, Norbert (Eds.) Repression, Reform und Neuordnung im Zeitalter der Revolutionen. Die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa (2019)

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See detailRepression, Reform und Neuordnung im Zeitalter der Revolution. Die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa.
Fickers, Andreas UL; Franz, Norbert; Laux, Stephan

Book published by Peter Lang (2019)

Dieser Band reflektiert die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa, insbesondere aus der Perspektive der europäischen Großregion Saarland-Lothringen-Luxemburg-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie. Die ... [more ▼]

Dieser Band reflektiert die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa, insbesondere aus der Perspektive der europäischen Großregion Saarland-Lothringen-Luxemburg-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie. Die territoriale und politische Neuordnung Europas wird aus regionalhistorischer Perspektive untersucht, ohne die transnationalen Dimensionen dieses komplexen Prozesses aus den Augen zu verlieren. [less ▲]

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See detailCommunicating Europe. Technologies, Information, Events.
Fickers, Andreas UL; Griset, Pascal

Book published by Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and ... [more ▼]

Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies’ geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities. Also the authors critically examine their spatial dimensions and transnational implications – as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as ‘vehicles’ carrying complex symbolic meanings. Through in-depth assessments of critical, as well as mundane, events in the history of communications and information, these analyses will significantly alter conventional perspectives both on communications and on modern European history. [less ▲]

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See detailAudiovisual Data in Digital Humanities
Fickers, Andreas UL; Snickars, Pelle; Williams, Mark

in VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (2019), 7(14), 1-4

This issue of VIEW provides a critical survey of new digital humanities (DH) methods and tools directed toward audiovisual (AV) media. DH as a field is still dominated by a focus on textual studies ... [more ▼]

This issue of VIEW provides a critical survey of new digital humanities (DH) methods and tools directed toward audiovisual (AV) media. DH as a field is still dominated by a focus on textual studies (studies of word culture) that are largely “deaf and blind” in their capacity to search, discover, and study AV materials. The mandate to improve these capacities is clear and unquestioned, though the pathways are fecund and numerous. New and emergent tools related to deep learning algorithms are reasonably expected to change this methodological landscape within the digitally accelerated near-future. [less ▲]

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See detail(De)Habituation Histories: How to Re-Sensitize Media Historians
Fickers, Andreas UL; Van den Oever, Annie

in Hall, Nick; Ellis, John (Eds.) Hands-On Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2019)

In line with our earlier work, we will take the material object – the technological device – and, more specifically, the sensorial and experiential dimensions expressed in media use as a point of ... [more ▼]

In line with our earlier work, we will take the material object – the technological device – and, more specifically, the sensorial and experiential dimensions expressed in media use as a point of departure for our reflections. Why would the sensorial and experiential dimensions of media use be a relevant point of departure for such reflections? And, by extension: why would such reflections help to theoretically frame media newness? The answer, as we will argue, is that the (media) technologies used for communication and information purposes work quite differently on users than, for instance, technologies of transportation. Media technologies stand out amongst the broad range of technologies used by humans, such as trains, aeroplanes and elevators in as far as media technologies typically use representation as a means. As such, they affect users in a very specific way, quite different from trains and aeroplanes. Moreover, media technologies stand out among the media such as language because of their technical make-up, as Kittler has convingingly argued; for this reason, he labeled media technologies, somewhat tautologically as he would admit, “technical media”. In Part 3, we will first discuss the concept of “technical media” to address the question of why and how media technologies require special treatment in both media and technology research in terms of the traces they leave in representation – with considerable implications for the user experience. Next, in Part 4, we will address the question as to why the sensorial effects created by technical media would typically be accompanied by a distinct experiential dimension and why this would help create the famous cyclical effects in the history of media use. In Parts 5 and 6, then, we will discuss the implications for media historiographical research. [less ▲]

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See detail"Hybrid Histories": per una collocazione critica della storia dei media
Fickers, Andreas UL

in Cornelissen, Christoph; D'Ottavio, Gabriele (Eds.) Germania e Italia. Sguardi incrociati sulla storiografia (2019)

This article reflects on the history of media history, e.g. its main topics, methodologies and conceptual approaches. It ends on a series of ideas how to develop the field in the age of digital tools and ... [more ▼]

This article reflects on the history of media history, e.g. its main topics, methodologies and conceptual approaches. It ends on a series of ideas how to develop the field in the age of digital tools and technologies. [less ▲]

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