Periodicals as/in Media Constellations

Because of their capacity to act as meta-media, periodicals have been central sites to unfold and discuss media developments and constellations. On the one hand, they develop textual discourses on media and their relationships to one another; on the other hand, they also integrate other media, such as images, illustrations and reproductions, incorporated into their own format via intermedial processes and remediation. Consequently, journals not only address the idiosyncrasies of the various media in their environment, but also consistently reflect (on) their own mediality—whether explicitly in articles about their own format and journal culture in general, or implicitly in their layout, their text-image relationships, their graphic design. Accordingly, this conference will be interested both in media constellations which can be observed within magazines; and in the historically specific, superordinate constellations formed between the various mass media in which they take part.

The conference is organized by subproject 1 (Daniela Gretz, Marcus Krause
and Nicolas Pethes) and subproject 5 (Alice Morin, Jens Ruchatz

For more information, please contact Sandra Socha.