Research Training Group on Transnational Media Events

The Research Training Group on Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present investigates forms and functions of media representations of key events, from the the era of the first printing press to the age of the world wide web.

Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, the Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg 'Transnationale Medienereignisse') examines media events not for their own sake, but as factors in and catalysts of communication across borders. The communicative spaces opened up by media events are therefore transnational, not territorial, ones. In addition to media technologies and the content of media products, analyses will focus on the processes involved in making the event public: the struggle for hegemony, including misunderstandings and persuasive strategies, as well as communicative networks and journalistic practices.