051913 VO Introduction to media education (2025S)

The exam material will be presented with PowerPoint during each lecture and then made available as a pdf in the Moodle system. The following aspects of media pedagogy will be covered in the exam:
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But untethered and extraterritorial though they may be, the elites aren’t “at sea” in the same way as the majority they rule. On the contrary, their power derives from the nimbleness and flexibility they enjoy. But in the conditions of liquid modernity, the rest of us can’t commit to or rely on anything solid as we once might have; there are no solid forms taking shape to anchor us. Jobs, relationships, values, and spiritual beliefs become contingent—and so, inevitably, do gender and sexuality. For Bauman, this was a crisis; for the queer theorist, it is emancipatory. The celebration of liquid modernity is integral to the methods and “findings” of queer theory. Recently, the academic journal Qualitative Research published a queer-studies paper investigating how fans of shota—a Japanese genre of self-published erotic fiction featuring young boys—experience sexual pleasure. The researcher’s method was to masturbate while reading these stories, and to describe how he felt. While the article produced predictable outrage, it also demonstrated how the obsession with melting away norms leads to frivolous, unscrupulous thinking and research. The journal retracted the paper after public backlash. Scholarly publishing, the source of all the “expertise” we are constantly enjoined to trust, is now just another liquid, impermanent form. Sexual and gender categories have indeed become fluid, at least in places where liquid modernity is advanced. But was this caused by edgy academics? No. On the contrary, to use a term such people are fond of, the causation was “structural.” Generalized liquefaction was underway long before queer theorists first babbled out polysyllabic neologisms like “heteronormativity” or “homonationalism.” Just as recent calls to “abolish the family” arrived after family solidity had already declined, so queer theorists argue for a fluidity of gender that is increasingly a fait accompli. More than perhaps any other system of thought, queer theory “goes with the flow” of liquid modernity, and certainly poses no threat to the oligarchs who thrive amid this chaotic state of affairs. No wonder, then, that corporations have embraced it, or at least a third-hand version of it. Despite their radical pose, queer theorists are at best chroniclers of personal styles and behaviors that transgress the norms of the vanished social order of the past century. At worst, they generate apologetics for an unstable, liquefied future that is already here.

01 Tuesday 11.03.: Competence / Media literacy / Basic digital education (Baacke)
02 Tuesday 18.03.: Media competence / media performance
03 Tuesday 25.03.: Media socialisation / Sociology of education
04 Tuesday 01.04.: Theories of media education I. Game / language game / computer game
05 Tuesday 08.04.: Theories of media education II: Digital humanism
06 Tuesday 29.04.: Media theories / media science
07 Tuesday 06 May: Habitus / Media Habitus / Digital Habitus
08 Tuesday 13.05.: Action-orientated media education