Deutsch-französische soap opera an der Saar: die Anfänge des kommerziellen Rundfunks im Saarland (Tele-Saar und Europe no 1)

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

Zwischentöne. 100 Jahre Ostbelgien (1920-2020). 8 Radioessays

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 ▲]

Introduction: The ITU as Actor, Arena, and Antenna of Techno-Diplomacy

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 ▲]

History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet.

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 ▲]

New (digital) ways of telling the story of technology: binaural radio plays, video essays and web documentaries‘

Presentation (2019, October 25)

Dilthey Reloaded. Für eine digitale Hermeneutik in den Geisteswissenschaften

Presentation (2019, June 17)

Die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa - eine Einleitung.

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

Communicating Europe. Technologies, Information, Events.

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 ▲]

(De)Habituation Histories: How to Re-Sensitize Media Historians

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 ▲]

"Hybrid Histories": per una collocazione critica della storia dei media

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 ▲]