Universität Wien

180131 SE Media Philosophy and Public (2014W)

Über politische Aspekte der medialen Transformation

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 45 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

ACHTUNG - TERMIN- UND ORTÄNDERUNG - BLOCKSEMINAR:
Ort: Seminarraum "Alte Kapelle", Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2.8, Campus, Altes AKH, Institut für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin
Mo. 6.10. - 17-20 Uhr - Informationsveranstaltung;
Mo. 3.11.; Mi. 5.11.; Mo. 10.11.; Mi. 12.11.; Mo. 17.11.; Mi. 19.11.; Mo. 24.11.; Mi. 26.11. Jeweils 17-20 Uhr

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The relation between the public and the private and thus of the realm of the political is dependent from the social negotiation against the background of the media-shaped conditions of communication. Especially political communication is dependent on the (mass-)media available. At first through radio and TV and later through the diverse means of communication in the internet, the delimitation between public and private as well as the form of communication and the form of politics has changed. The seminar explores the transformation of public communication through the use of new (mass-)media and the resulting political changes.
The seminar will proceed in three steps: In the first step, the seminar will explore the concept of the political public sphere and its different definitions and functions. The social and medial parameters of "the public" will be of special interest. In a second step, the different theories of of the public sphere will be discussed from a perspective of the philosophy of media with regard to their understanding of (the function of) media and their implication on political theory. Finally, in a third step, the question about the medial aspects of the realm of the political will be assesed from the private/public distinction.

Assessment and permitted materials

Attendance, short presenation, active participation, term paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The seminar aims to increase the understanding of the social and medial constructed difference of private and public, and to interpret and understand it in the context of contemporary political philosophy and philosophy of media.

Examination topics

Short presentations, discussion

Reading list

Bolz, Norbert: Das Ende der Gutenberg-Galaxis, München: Fink, 1993.
Dewey, John: Die Öffentlichkeit und ihre Probleme. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns, Bodenheim: Philo, 1996.
Gerhardt, Volker: Öffentlichkeit. Die politische Form des Bewusstseins, München: C.H. Beck, 2012.
Geuss, Raymond: Privatheit. Eine Genealogie, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2002.
Glotz, Peter: Die Beschleunigte Gesellschaft. Kulturkämpfe im digitalen Kapitalismus, Reinbek: Rowolth, 2001.
Habermas, Jürgen: Der Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1990.
Habermas, Jürgen: Faktizität und Geltung. Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992.
Engell, Lorenz: Das Ende des Fernsehens, in: Oliver Fahle und Lorenz Engell (Hrsg.): Philosophie des Fernsehens, München: Wilhelm Fink, 2006, S. 137-156.
Konitzer, Werner: Medienphilosophie, München: Wilhelm Fink, 2006.
Lippmann, Walter: Public Opinion, Greenbook, 2010.
Marchart, Oliver: Die politische Differenz, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2010.
Margreiter, Reinhard: Medienphilosophie des Buchdrucks, in Sandbothe, Mike und Nagl, Ludwig (Hrsg.): Systematische Medienphilosophie, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005.
McLuhan, Marshall: Die magischen Kanäle („Understanding Media“), Düsseldorf/Wien: Econ-Verlag, 1968.
Meyrowitz, Joshua: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Mouffe, Chantal: Das demokratische Paradox. Aus dem Englischen von Oliver Marchart, Wien: Turia + Kant, 2013.
Poster, Mark: The Good, the Bad and the Virtual: Ethics in the Information Age, in Gunnar Liestol (Hrsg): Digital Media Revisited, Boston: MIT Press, 2003, S. 521-545.
Postman, Neil: Amusing Ourselves to Death. Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, London: Methuen, 1987.
Sandbothe, Mike und Nagl, Ludwig (Hrsg.): Systematische Medienphilosophie, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005.
Sandbothe, Mike: Pragmatische Medienphilosophie, Göttingen: Velbrück, 2001.
Sennett, Richard: The Fall of Public Man, Cambridge: CUP, 1977.
Taylor, Charles: Modern Social Imaginaries, Durham and London: Duke University Press 2004.

Association in the course directory

BA M 7.1

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