Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and Germ

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.