Jens Schröter (media scientist)

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Jens Schröter (2019)

Jens Schröter (born January 22, 1970 ) is a German media scientist .

Life

Schröter studied theater , film and television studies , art history and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum , received a dissertation scholarship from 1997 to 1999 and was a research assistant at the endowed professorship for theory and history of photography from 1999 to 2002, University of Essen . In 2002 he received his doctorate with the thesis “The Net and Virtual Reality. For the self-programming of society through the universal machine ”. From 2002 to 2008 he worked as a member of the research college 615, "Medienumbrüche", Siegen in the project "Virtualization of Sculpture: Reconstruction, Presentation, Installation".

Since April 2015 he has been professor for media culture studies at the University of Bonn . Before that, he was Professor of Theory and Practice of Multimedia Systems at the University of Siegen . His habilitation from 2008 is entitled “3D. On the theory, history and media aesthetics of the technical-transplanar image ”. From 2008 to 2012 he was head of the Graduate School Locating Media and has been one of the applying scientists of the DFG Graduate School Locating Media since 2012. From 2010 to 2014 he was (together with Lorenz Engell , Bauhaus University Weimar) director of the DFG research project “The TV series as reflection and projection of change”. In April / May 2014 he was a “John von Neumann” fellow at the University of Sciences in Szeged, Hungary. In September 2014 he was visiting professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, PR China. In the winter semester 2014/15 he was a senior fellow with the research project “Cultures of Calculation / Politics of Simulation” at the DFG Research College “Media Cultures of Computer Simulation” at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In the 2017 summer semester he was a Senior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna with the research project “Disorder and the three-dimensional image”. In the 2017/18 winter semester he was a Senior Fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar with the research project “The Operative Ontology of the Individual”. Since 2016 he has been the spokesman for the project “Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld. Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld”, applied for at the VW Foundation together with Stefan Meretz (Commons Institute, Bonn), Hanno Pahl (Economic Sociology, Lucerne / Munich) and Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle (Complexity Economics, Vienna) . Opening a dialogue ”. From April 1, 2018, he and Anja Stöffler (Mainz University of Applied Sciences) will lead the DFG research project “Van Gogh TV. Indexing, multimedia documentation and analysis of your estate. "

Schröter researches theories and history of digital media, theories and history of photography , intermediality , three-dimensional images, media theory in discussion with value criticism , audio media and auditory culture, as well as television series .

Fonts

As an author

  • 3D. History, Theory and Aesthetics of the Transplane Image. New York, Bloomsbury, 2013.
  • Wired. The Wire and the Media Clash. Berlin, Bertz Fischer, 2012.
  • A theory of media upheaval 1900/2000. Siegen, Universi Verlag, together with Nicola Glaubitz u. a., 2011.
  • 3D. On the theory, history and media aesthetics of the technical-transplanar image. Munich, Fink, 2009.
  • The net and virtual reality. For the self-programming of society through the universal machine. Bielefeld, transcript, 2004.

As editor u. a.

  • Handbook of media studies. Stuttgart, JB Metzler, with the collaboration of Simon Ruschmeyer and Elisabeth Walke, 2014.
  • Auditory media cultures. Hearing techniques and sound design practices. Bielefeld, transcript, together with Axel Volmar, 2013.
  • The series. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 7, 2/2012, Zurich, Diaphanes, together Benjamin Beil, Lorenz Engell a. a.
  • The Actor Network Theory as a Challenge to Art History. Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History, issue 57, 1, 2012, together with Thomas Hensel.
  • The holographic knowledge. Zurich, Diaphanes, together with Stefan Rieger, 2009.
  • Media Marx. Bielefeld, transcript, together with Gregor Schwering and Urs Stäheli, 2006.
  • Analog, digital - opposition or continuum? Bielefeld, transcript, together with Alexander Böhnke, 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG research project The television series as a projection and reflection of change , accessed on June 5, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Schröter, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd January 1970