Manfred Fassler

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Manfred Faßler at the Digitization Conference in Hamburg

Manfred Faßler (* 1949 in Bonn ) is a German media scientist and professor at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. His research and teaching areas are media evolution and media-integrated knowledge cultures.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1969, Faßler began studying physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1970/71 he moved to the Free University of Berlin and began his studies in sociology, economics, political science and philosophy. He graduated in 1975 with a diploma.

He then began his doctoral thesis on the history of industrialization in Germany, received a scholarship from the Free University of Berlin's graduate support and worked in parallel as a specialist lecturer in "Social Sciences". In February 1979 he completed the doctoral procedure as part of a colloquium examination.

In 1979/1980 he represented W. Hollstein (political sociology) and taught sociology between 1980 and 1987 at the Free University of Berlin at the Jaeggi chair. At the same time he worked as a freelance journalist for EPD , Deutschlandfunk and SFB between 1980 and 1985 . In 1984 he was on a research expedition to the USA. As part of a Fellowship of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America, he visited research and development departments in Boston ( Harvard ), Palo Alto ( Stanford ), Seattle and New York. After his return from the USA, he dealt increasingly intensively with the transformation effects of digital technologies, personal computers and the incipient networking in Germany.

Nevertheless, he moved from Berlin to Schwerte in 1987 and became head of studies at the Evangelical Study Center in Villigst . In 1991 he became its director.

At the same time, he began teaching at the Free University of Berlin, the GH Kassel and other research collaborations, which led to the founding of the Berlin Media Institute in 1992. This was located at the Museum Services Berlin. In June 1994 he submitted his habilitation thesis on "Medialer Interaction" to the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, in February 1995 he gave his habilitation lecture and was awarded the qualification to teach sociology.

In the same year Faßler was appointed professor for communication theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and took up this position in October 1995 as head of the chair for communication theory. For many years he was a member of the spokesman's council of the section media and communication sociology of the German Society for Sociology / DGS, together with S. Müller-Doohm, K. Neumann-Braun, Angela Keppler-Seel. In June 1999 he was elected director of the Institute for Experimental Design and Spatial Art at the University of Applied Arts. In the same year he was offered the professorship that he currently holds. In February 2000 he accepted this position and in June gave up the professorship for communication theory at the University of Applied Arts and in the same year was asked to fill a two-year visiting professorship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

Works

  • Battle of Habitats: Reinventing Life in the 21st Century , Vienna / New York: Springer Verlag 2012, ISBN 9783709108000
  • According to society. Infogeneous Futures - Anthropological Outlook , 280 pages, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Paderborn, 2009
  • The infogenic person. Draft of an anthropology , 336 pages, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Paderborn, 2008
  • with C. Terkowsky: Urban Fictions. The future of the urban , 364 pages, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Paderborn, 2006
  • Imagined worlds. The media evolution of global cultures , Springer Vienna New York June 2005
  • What is communication 2nd edition (completely revised and new edition expanded by 1/3) Munich 2003
  • with Ursula Hentschläger & Zelko Wiener: WEB-FICTION. Aesthetic, artistic, scientific, journalistic web rooms , Vienna New York (Springer - Verlag) 2003
  • Imagery. Navigations through the repertoire of visibility , Böhlau - Vienna 2002
  • Networks. Introduction to network structures, network cultures and the reality of distributed society , Munich, Wilhelm Fink Verlag / UTB, March 2001
  • Live without a mirror. Media development and posthuman images of people (ed.), Munich 2000
  • All possible worlds. Virtual Realities and Ethics of Communication [Contributions to EXPO 2000], (Ed.), 263 pages, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Munich, 1999
  • Cyber ​​modernity. Media evolution, global networks and the arts of communicating , Vienna New York 1999 with W. Halbach (ed.), Mediengeschichte, Munich / UTB 1998
  • with M. Lohmann, E. Müller (eds.), Education - World - Responsibility , Giessen 1998
  • What is communication An introduction , Munich / UTB 1997
  • Media interaction. Memory Individuality Public , 503 pages, Wilhelm Fink Verlag Munich, 1996
  • with J. Will, M. Zimmermann (eds.), Against the Restoration of Geopolitics , Gießen 1996
  • with W. Halbach (ed.), Cyberspace. Communities - virtual colonies - publics , Munich 1994
  • with W. Halbach (ed.), staging of information. Motifs of electronic order , Giessen 1992
  • WASTE - MODERN - PRESENT. Contributions to the evolutionary proper law of the present , Giessen 1991
  • Together with Urs Jaeggi, head and hand. The relationship between society and consciousness , Frankfurt New York 1982
  • Community or domination. History of the decay of a utopia of a society free of domination , Giessen 1979
  • The way to the 'red' government? The German social democracy between feudalism and bourgeois counter-revolution , Giessen 1977

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SURNAME Fassler, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist and cultural anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn