The Master's program Media Culture Studies includes a project-oriented study phase in which students work on current research approaches and phenomena of contemporary media cultures in the form of thematically oriented project seminars. The focus is on the conceptual development and implementation of the students' own research projects, in which they use the theoretical, methodological and historical skills they have acquired during their studies to deal with selected topics in depth. For this purpose, larger project formats such as publications, workshops, exhibitions, etc. are realized together with the students.
»Exhibiting cartographies, assembling spaces«
Project seminar during the Master's program Media Culture Studies in summer semester 2024 under the direction of: Mona Wischhoff, M.A. and Tom Ullrich, M.A.
Students develop the exhibition »unboxing maps. Karten, Medien, Praktiken« with objects from the map collection of the Institute of Geography in the Schule des Sehens (September 25 - October 25, 2024) with an accompanying virtual presentation. Cartographic representations of the city of Mainz and its surroundings will be examined from the perspective of media culture studies in collection- and project-based research.
»Artificial Intelligence. Information technologies between man and machine«
Project seminar during the Master's program Media Culture Studies in summer semester 2023 under the direction of: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schabacher and Dr. Franziska Reichenbecher
Students deal with the use of and research on AI technologies and machine learning from a media and culture studies perspective and produce their own desktop documentaries on specific use cases of AI and their resonance on the net.
»Animals/Human. History and Theory of a Demarcation«
Project seminar during the Master's program Media Culture Studies in summer semester 2022
under the direction of: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schabacher and Tom Ullrich, M.A.
Students will develop their own research papers on the historic and contemporary establishment, shifting, and questioning of the animal-human demarcation from a media and culture studies perspective and present their findings at a master's conference on July 14 and 15, 2022.
»The Face. Faciality and mediality in history and today«
Project seminar during the Master's program Media Culture Studies in summer semester 2021
under the direction of: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Schabacher and Franziska Reichenbecher, M.A.
Students develop their own research contributions on the media construction of the face and present their results in a jointly designed website.