Media informatics

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Media informatics is a branch of informatics that emerged in the early 1990s against the background of the digitization of text, images, audio and video (“ digital age ”). New technologies and the convergence of the media have created new technologies, markets, applications, fields of activity and job profiles. In the 1990s, the term multimedia dominated the discussion.

Media informatics is strongly interdisciplinary and in particular has points of contact with applied informatics with a focus on multimedia , media theory , media economics , media design , media psychology , cognitive sciences or media didactics .

Depending on the university and degree , the individual sub-areas of media informatics are assigned different degrees of importance. At some universities, the focus is on the basics of computer science and their practical application in the field of media technology. At other universities, on the other hand, skills are taught that should enable them to deal creatively with those media systems that have emerged from the digitization of print media , audiovisual media and digital communication technologies . These digitized media are often subsumed under the catchphrase new media .

History of origin

Media informatics was created as a subject and course of study in the German-speaking area at the Faculty of Digital Media at Furtwangen University . A diploma course in media informatics was established here for the first time in the summer of 1990 . As pioneers of media informatics, Fritz Steimer and then Michael Kerres and Martin Aichele set up an extensive studio and laboratory environment for the first time in addition to the first European course. The interdisciplinary and application-oriented structure of the course, which, in addition to typical IT basics , also included subjects such as media conception , media design and media didactics , was groundbreaking .

Since about 1996 a number of courses and research approaches have been developed which, in addition to media and production-related issues, link computer science with media science approaches. In addition to media-theoretical and media-philosophical approaches, questions of human-computer interaction and human-human communication with the help of computers are in the foreground. The computer itself is understood as a medium between people and computer applications and also between communicating and cooperating people. After the computer had been perceived as a resource and tool for decades, it has since been understood more and more as an active and flexible (programmable) medium.

Since 2007 there has been a specialist group for media informatics in the Gesellschaft für Informatik , which deals with teaching, research and application in this area and brings together experts from science and business for publications, workshops and conferences. The specialist group understands media informatics to be a relatively broad field of sub-areas of informatics that is expanding with the advancement of technical development. For example, with the increasing spread of Augmented Reality , Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality since the mid-2010s, their relevance and the relevance of computer graphics within media informatics has also grown.

education

Media computer science can now at many colleges as a separate course or as part of the study of computer science , business computer science and media studies are covered under different trade names. Vocational schools and vocational colleges offer a (mostly two-year) school education with a state qualification. Media informatics is also part of the Digital Media course .

See also

literature

  • Kai Bruns, Klaus Meyer-Wegener (Hrsg.): Taschenbuch der Medieninformatik . Fachbuchverlag Leipzig in Carl Hanser Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-446-40299-3 .
  • Michael Herczeg : Introduction to media informatics . Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-58103-1 .
  • Roland Schmitz (Ed.): Compendium Media Informatics . Springer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3540366296 .
  • Rainer Malaka, Andreas Butz, Heinrich Hußmann: Media Informatics - An Introduction . Pearson, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8273-7353-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filk, Christian (2009): Episteme der Medienwissenschaft - systems-theoretical studies for science research in a transdisciplinary field, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 260.
  2. ^ Fritz Steimer retired Südkurier from March 2, 2010, accessed on May 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Michael Herczeg and Horst Oberquelle: GI-Fachgruppe MI: Medieninformatik. (pdf; 103 kB) Media Informatics Division. (No longer available online.) In: Initial paper on the foundation of the specialist group. May 21, 2007, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 31, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gi.de

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