Workshop of the working group „Media Geographies“ of the German Association of Media Studies (GfM)

in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre 1187 Media of Cooperation

With the experts guests Cornelia Brantner, Mon Rodriguez-Amat and Georgia Aitaki, we want to discuss different approaches to public spheres and bring them together with a media-geographies perspective. At the center are the questions of how and in which areas the notion of the public sphere needs to be challenged and updated and how access or non-access is negotiated in communicative spaces along the four modes of representations, structures, textures, and connections. Suppose the public sphere has to assess the expected conditions for public debate normatively and for democracy, it has to consider the rich, complex, and multilayered integrated-circuit of the geography of online and offline interactions as an assembled interface.

28th of February 2024

Pre-workshop meeting of the media geographies working group

with Pablo Abend, Helena Atteneder, Hendrik Bender, Christoph Borbach, Max Kanderske, Karina Kirsten

19:00 joint dinner (location to be announced)

official start of the workshop and arrival

29th of February 2024

10:00 – 12:00 workshop session 1

„Structures of the Public Sphere: Contested Spaces as Assembled Interfaces“ 

12:00 – 13:30 lunch

13:30 – 14:30 workshop session 2 

“Revisiting the ‘cultural public sphere’: Pop culture, cultural journalism and paths toward (more) responsible media landscapes“

14:30 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 close reading session

18:00 joint dinner (location to be announced)

1st of March 2024

09:30 – 11:00 workshop session 3

“Connecting the Threads of Public Spheres and Media Geographies. Working towards a Manifesto”

11:00 – 11:30 closing thoughts and farewell