The ZeM – Brandenburg Center for Media Studies announces the annual focus “Platformatizations” for 2025/26: Start in April 2025, submissions of funding applications are now possible.

Fri, 06.06.2025, 14.00 h, ZeM

The ZeM invites everyone to participate in the discussion of texts on the annual focus “Platformatizations”.

Wed, 09.07.2025, 10.00 h, ZeM

We look forward to receiving your submissions by June 22, 2025!

Submissions until Sun, 31.08.2025

In 2026, the ZeM will once again fund a graduate conference with a focus on media studies.

The number of publications that have appeared is now so large that Kadmos has created new flyer for the ZeM series (in German). We thank the publisher for the great cooperation!

We congratulate the editors of “Un/Reale Interaktionsräume” on the publication of the volume, which was produced following the ZeM Graduates’ Conference 2022!

ZeM Monograph 05

The calculus of design is a diagrammatic approach towards the relationship between design and insight. The thesis is that insights are operatively de–signed.

ZeM Monograph 04

In Drawing Together, Judith Marlen Dobler examines the knowledge culture of collaborative drawing with a practice-led approach and drawing-based research.

A ZeM membership is open to anyone who is associated with one of the participating Brandenburg universities.

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Research, study, or knowledge transfer: Here you will find an overview of media science institutes and degree programmes in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.

Review of the academic events funded as part of the annual focus “Control of Loss” (2023/24).

ZeM publication series are available in Open Access. They are hosted as a separate series at media/rep/.

In this anthology edited by Marie-Luise Angerer, Ingrid Richardson, Hannah Schmedes and Zoë Sofoulis, 13 authors reflect on technologies of holding, filtering and leaking. Also available in open access.

Marie-Luise Angerer makes the affective short circuits between psyche and machine tangible as not unconscious, but “non-conscious” clockings of movement and time formations.

ZeM Edited volume 04

This Open Access book examines historical and contemporary image practices and phenomena, including screenshots, screen photography, screencasts and in-game photography.

ZeM Monograph 03

100 years ago, radio was established in the German-speaking world as “Rundfunk”. In five case histories, Kai Knörr tells a media history of “Funken” – the electric spark – from the 17th-19th century.

ZeM Monograph 02

Julian Jochmaring proposes the concept of a “negative ambientality” to ground current ecological theories in media philosophy.

ZeM Monograph 01

Maike Sarah Reinerth examines representations of memory and imagination through detailed film analyses from three eras.

ZeM Editions 03

For more than six decades, between computer science, semiotics, art and cultural theory, Frieder Nake has dealt with the presence of the computer…

The volume published by Palgrave Macmillan provides an introduction to ongoing debates and develops its own approach to the critique of digitality.

ZeM Editions 02

German first translation of a text published anonymously under the title ‘Les Animaux plus que Machines’ (1750)…

ZeM Edited volume 03

The iconic turn appeared more than 25 years ago with a radical proposition…

ZeM Editions 01

After the scandalous ‘L’Homme Machine’, La Mettrie wrote further machine-philosophical texts in Potsdam.

ZeM Zwiegespräche

“The world is everything that is the case” – derived from the Latin verb cadere, “to fall”. But what is the case? Two authors investigate a concept in dialogue.

Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Politics as well as power have become affective. We have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization.

Now in Open Access: Emotional life is increasingly read out, regulated and produced by digital technologies. Bernd Bösel opens up a genealogical view of the readjustments of this technification…

ZeM Edited volume 02

Small robust action-cams like the GoPro have lastingly altered the conditions for making images…

ZeM Edited volume 01

It is one of the central feminist concerns to take seriously the reality-constituting agency of narratives….

Overview of the academic events funded as part of the annual focus on “Digital Realities” (2022/23).