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Media History

History and the past along with memory and commemoration form central elements of social self-understanding. The area of competence shines light on current communicative processes in regard to the past and examines historical communicative processes in order to assess the change of media environments and the potential consequences in the long run.

The competence area “media history” combines diverse basic and application-oriented research that pursue two key objectives: on the one hand, it looks at current communicative processes, which are characterised by references to history and the past in order to gain knowledge about the role of the media for memory processes of communities and societies. On the other hand, it addresses the historical communicative processes to provide knowledge concerning changes of media environments and their potential consequences from a long-term perspective for current debates. Both objectives are pursued in this area of competence by focussing on transmedia and transnational entanglements and their role in communitisation processes, which were produced through communication.


 

Projects
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Literature on the Radio

Siegfried Lenz: How the Author Uses the Media

The project investigates the broadcasting activities of the Hamburg author Siegfried Lenz (1926-2014) and explores the development of the cultural value of public service broadcasting.
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Network Project

Media and Migration in the Baltic Sea Region (MeMiBaS)

The network project looked at the historical and today's role of the media in the Baltic Sea Region in light of current challenges and analysed historical lines of developments of migration processes. In 2017/18, the project was funded by the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg [Hamburg Resea...
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Can Media Facilitate Integration?

Arrival on the Radio

Can Media help to integrate migrants? Historically, Germany has seen many periods of emigration and immigration. 12 million Germans who moved to a territorially reduced post-war Germany as a consequence of World War II had a particular huge impact. Radio broadcasting played a central role in the int...
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Transnational Media Histories

Relationships between media and by media do not stop at borders. The cooperative project with the Macquarie University in Sydney investigates such transnational histories of media.  
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Private and Public Service Broadcasting

How the Dual Broadcasting System was introduced

Private Broadcasting has existed for only 30 years in Germany. However, it has existed long enough to ask, in a media history project, why and how private broadcasting was implemented.  
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International Research Network

Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS)

The international research network ‘Entangled Media Histories’ between the universities of Lund (Sweden), Bournemouth (Great Britain) and Hamburg (Germany) is working on a common European history of media.    
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Identity Formation In The 20th Century

Imagined Communities: Space-related Constructions of Cities’ Collectivity in Times of Analogue Media

Processes of identity formation in the 20th century in the media cities of Hamburg and Leipzig are the subject of a project proposed by the Research Centre for Media History.  
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Sounds like...

Sounds from the Past and Historical Communication Processes

What role do sounds play in historical communications processes? The Research Centre Media History looks at the speaking and sound, as well as the listening and perception of the past.  
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PhD Project

Memories of the Holocaust on TV

Does television influence how historical events are remembered? In her PhD-project, Juliane Finger has developed an approach to conceive long-term media effects using the example of the Holocaust presented on German TV.    
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Multiple Subprojects

Media Memory: Communication about the Past

How does media construct our understanding of history? The Research Centre Media History examines this topic in several studies.  
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Interdisciplinary Research Project

Norag and the Culture of the 1920’s in Hamburg

Under the umbrella of the interdisciplinary research association on the cultural history of Hamburg (www.fkghh.uni-hamburg.de), academics from various subject areas comprehensively investigated the Hamburg cultural scene during the Weimar Republic and passed on their results to a wider public in 201...
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