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Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called »Turks Deliverance Celebration« (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
About the author
Simon Ganahl (Mag. DDr. phil.), geb. 1981, forscht und lehrt als Literatur- und Medienwissenschaftler mit einem Fokus auf Digital Humanities an der Universität Wien. Er leitet das digitale Mapping-Projekt Campus Medius und gibt die referierte Open-Access-Zeitschrift Genealogy+Critique heraus. Nach Studien in Wien, Hamburg und Zürich promovierte er sowohl in Kommunikationswissenschaft als auch in Deutscher Philologie an der Universität Wien. Er war Gastforscher an der School of Media Studies der New School in New York und Gastdozent am Center for Digital Humanities der UCLA. Seine Forschungsarbeit wurde mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem APART-Stipendium der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und dem Schrödinger-Stipendium des österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF).
Summary
Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called »Turks Deliverance Celebration« (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
Report
»'Campus Medius' takes a scholarly, sophisticated, and highly innovative step in pushing German(-language) digital humanities forward, with its intriguing insights spanning German and Austrian Studies, Media Studies, and cultural history more broadly - while exploring the rich intersections between and among all four of those fields.«
Jaimey Fisher, The German Quarterly, 96/2 (2023) 20230523
