M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

This article focuses on Friedrich Kittler’s middle creative phase from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s when he wrote most of his seminal texts on the history and technology of media. First, we briefly outline his academic biography and the...

The financial challenges that the media industry has been facing in the recent decades, have fueled the debate about the increasing precarization of the working conditions in journalism, which can lead to an erosion of news quality. This study...

Social media platforms play a pivotal role in contemporary mobilization efforts for demonstrations. Telegram, in particular, offers a multitude of technological advantages for co-ordinating protests. The German „Querdenken“ movement has embraced...

In the course of the Covid 19 pandemic and building on conspiracy theories, a strong far right mobilization and radicalization has been observed, which crossed existing milieus and brought known right-wingers and previously politically inactive...

This article analyses the online strategies of Volkish Settlers who settle in far-right “folk communities” in rural Germany. By analyzing the LEISNIG.info Telegram channel, this article shows how ethnic settlers attempt to influence local...