Volume 10 (2018), Issue 19

The Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (Magazine of Media Studies) stands for media science with a focus on cultural science that examines and shifts through research on individual media so as to explore political powers and epistemic constellations. It provides links to international research as well as to various disciplines and gathers different writing styles and text formats, images and debates in order to provide space for the versatility with which one can write, contemplate and experiment. Issue No. 19 has two focal points: Beyond astonishment about the matter of fact, with which anchors of reality, such as »facts«, promise a safe hold in a knowledge system that is being rocked by »truthiness storms«, the focus on factualities (Eds.: Eva Schauerte and Sebastian Vehlken) explores the question how medial processes are involved in their making. A second focal point on the issue of class (Eds.: Ulrike Bergermann and Andrea Seier) highlights that objects of media science as well as the researchers` origins bear a class marker and discusses criteria of analyses concerning medial artifacts, forms of production and reception, including the conditions for options of the production of knowledge.