Concepts of Technology and Media

Media and technology are often used as if they were interchangeable. What is named today ‘German Media Theory’ is based on the philosophy of technology. In this course we will start to discuss the problem of the connection between technology and media in two blocks. 1. We study the concepts of technology, technique, techné. 2. We study their impact in the definition of media and the impact of those understandings for media analysis, e.g. we practice on concrete cases in film, TV, music, theatre and Internet. The aim is to learn how to conceptualize and analyze technology based mass media.