Stefan Münker

Stefan Münker (* 1963 ) is a German media scientist and journalist .

Life

Stefan Münker studied philosophy, German literature and art history in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin. Since the early 1990s he has published works on the theory of (especially new) media. Münker is a representative of German-language media philosophy and a private lecturer at the Institute for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University Berlin .

From 2005 to 2010, Münker taught at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Basel, where he also completed his habilitation in 2008. In the 2010/2011 winter semester he was a substitute professor for media aesthetics at the University of Regensburg. In the 2012/2013 winter semester, Münker was a fellow of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for Communication Research at the International Center for Culture and Technology Research (IZKT) at the University of Stuttgart.

As a publicist, he was one of the first employees of the online magazine Telepolis . He then worked for many years as an editor of the ZDF talk show Nachtstudio . Today he is a member of the ZDF Kultur Berlin editorial team , where he works as an editor and author for the culture magazine aspekte .

Publications

• Internet myth. Edited by Stefan Münker and Alexander Roesler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1997
• Televisions. Edited by Stefan Münker and Alexander Roesler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1999
• Phone book. Edited by Stefan Münker and Alexander Roesler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2000
• Post-structuralism. Written together with Alexander Roesler, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000
• Practice internet. Edited by Stefan Münker and Alexander Roesler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2002
• Media philosophy. Contributions to clarifying a term. Edited by Stefan Münker, Alexander Roesler and Mike Sandbothe, S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2003
• What is a medium? Edited by Stefan Münker and Alexander Roesler, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2008
• TV experiments. Stations of a medium. Edited by Stefan Münker and Michael Grisko, Kadmos, Berlin 2008
• Philosophy after the 'Medial Turn'. Contributions to the theory of the media society. transcript, Bielefeld 2009
• Emergence of digital publics. The social media of Web 2.0. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2009

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Münker in the catalog of the German National Library

Online articles

• Plea for social media (Spiegel online)
• For the same eye level (pearl divers)
• The network doesn't think (Carta)
• Article in Telepolis ( Memento from April 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )