Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe

Norm Friesen (born March 21, 1966) is associate professor in Educational Technology at Boise State University. Norm Friesen studied German Literature, Secondary Education, and Communication at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Alberta and Simon Fraser University (respectively). He has undertaken teaching and research at the University of Toronto, the University of Innsbruck and Athabasca University. He has led the CanCore Learning object metadata initiative from 2003 to 2010, and is co-editor of the peer reviewed open content journal Phenomenology and Practice. Dr. Friesen is also a member of the Canadian delegation to the ISO/IEC JTC1 subcommittee 36, for Learning, Education and Training.[1] Dr Friesen has been involved in Wikiversity research. Dr. Friesen's research interests include media theory, alternative pedagogies, technical e-learning standardization, phenomenology and ethnomethodology.

Introduction: The Geopolitics of Media Studies; Richard Cavell and Norm Friesen.- Part I. Theory and Nationality of Media.- What's German about German Media Theory?; Claus Pia.- Disciplining Media Studies: An Expanding Field and Its (Self-) Definition; Jens Schröter.- Part II. McLuhan Transatlantic.- Anonymous Historiography: A Metaphorology of the Constellation in Benjamin, Giedion and McLuhan; Norm Friesen.- Giedion and Explorations: Confluences of Space and Media in Toronto School Theorization; Michael Darroch.- .- Part III. Greek Recursions.- Innis and Kittler: the Case of the Greek Alphabet; Till Heilmann.- Chapter 6. Between Orality and Literacy: Plato's Hybrid Medium; Twyla Gibson.- Part IV. Materiality and Ontology.- Innis in the Concertgebouw: Media and Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century in Amsterdam; Darryl Cressman.- Meta/ Dia: Two Approaches to the Medial: Dieter Mersch.- Part V. New Directions.- McLuhan and Medienwissenschaften: Sense and Sensation; Rainer Leschke.- The Messenger as a Model in Media Theory: Reflections on the Philosophical Dimensions of Theorizing Media; Sybille Krämer.