Society for Media Studies
The Society for Media Studies (GfM) is the specialist society for German-language media studies. It was founded in 1985 as the Society for Film and Television Studies (GFF) and renamed the Society for Media Studies in 2000.
aims
The goals of the GfM are to promote media studies for the purpose of general and vocational training, to promote scientific dialogue between representatives of various scientific disciplines for the purpose of intensifying research in the field of analog and digital media, to promote discussion and cooperation between science , Art, criticism and practice as well as the promotion of international cooperation in the field of media.
Board
As of February 2019, the Executive Board of the Society for Media Studies has consisted of the following people since October 2017:
- Christiane Heibach, University of Regensburg (1st Chair)
- Angela Krewani, University of Marburg (Deputy Chair)
- Felix T. Gregor, University of Düsseldorf (Treasurer)
- Sven Stollfuß, University of Leipzig (assessor)
- Maja Figge, University of the Arts Berlin (assessor)
Commissions, forums and working groups
Commissions
The work of the Board of Directors is supported by a number of commissions:
- Commission for Good Work in Science
- Commission teaching
- Copyright and Media Studies Commission
Forums
The forums are divisions of society that deal with particular focal points of the content-related work. Currently (as of 2/2019) these are:
- Forum education
- Forum digitization
Working groups
The working groups meet regularly and organize their own conferences. There are currently the following working groups:
- AG Affective Media Technologies
- AG animation
- AG Auditory Culture and Sound Studies
- AG comic research
- AG data and networks
- AG Eco Media
- AG television history and television studies
- AG film studies
- Photography research group
- AG Games
- AG Gender / Queer Studies and Media Studies
- AG Genre Studies
- AG Interfaces
- AG Media and Dis / Ability Studies
- AG Media and Art / Art and Media
- AG Media Aesthetics
- AG media history
- AG media industries
- AG media culture and education
- AG Media Philosophy
- Media semiotics group
- AG Media Studies and Dis / Ability Studies
- AG media studies and political theory
- AG Media Studies and Science Research
- AG Open Media Studies
- WG participation and fan research
- AG popular culture and media
Online offers and publications
On the website medienwissenschaft-studieren.org, the GfM offers an overview of media studies courses in German-speaking countries.
Journal of Media Studies
The GfM is the publisher of the journal for media studies. The ZfM, which is supervised by an independent editorial team, appears with a main topic, expanded by articles outside the topic, debates and photo series. The articles in the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft are openly available on the journal's website.
Annual meetings
The annual meeting of the society is organized alternately by media science specialist units from different universities on a key topic.
Web links
- GfM website
- Website of the journal for media studies
- Overview of media science courses in German-speaking countries: medienwissenschaft-studieren.org
- Repository for media studies publications: mediarep.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Society for Media Studies e. V. (GfM). In: Pedagogy specialist portal. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Statutes of the Society for Media Studies eV | Society for Media Studies. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Statutes of the Society for Media Studies eV | Society for Media Studies. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Board of Directors | Society for Media Studies. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Our working groups | Society for Media Studies. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Archive of the annual meetings | Society for Media Studies. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .