Beyond Media Literacy

The interplay of physical reality and media environments is getting enhanced by new technological innovations. We are living in the age of digital aesthetics and there is a need for individual, cultural or social forms and variations of media literacy. This book seeks the limits of media literacies, and to go beyond them. »Beyond Media Literacy« contributes to the wide range of the media literacy discourse with approaches in modern media theory, philosophy, art and film theory, computer graphics as well as the complex range of modern aesthetics. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of media and literacy in the context of media as environments with effects on psyche and society.

Lars C. Grabbe (Germany), Dr. phil., Professor of Theory of Perception, Communication and Media and Dean at the MSD - Münster School of Design in Münster at the University of Applied Scienes Münster. He is managing editor of the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS), the book series Bewegtbilder and Welt|Gestalten of Büchner-Verlag (Marburg, Germany) and editor of Designforschung - Designwissenschaft - Designtheorie of Springer VS (Wiesbaden, Germany), founder member of the Image Science Colloquium at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (Germany) as well as the Research Group Moving Image Science Kiel|Münster (Germany), and scientific advisor and board member of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e.V.). Member of the German Society for Media Studies, the Platform for Immersive Media, the International Society for Intermedial Studies, and the German Society for Semiotics (DGS). Research focus: phenosemiotics, media theory and media philosophy, image science, perception studies and psychology of perception, communication theory, aesthetics, semiotics, film studies and history of media as well as theory of embodiment and cognition. Andrew McLuhan (Canada), is director of The McLuhan Institute, founded in 2017 to continue the work begun by Marshall McLuhan and carried on by Eric McLuhan in exploring and understanding culture and technology. He speaks, teaches, publishes, consults on the individual and social effects of technologies, and how to mitigate or avoid them. Dr. Tobias Held, is a lecturer at the MSD - Münster School of Design in Münster at the University of Applied Scienes Münster. He studied design in Dessau and Münster. In 2022 he obtained his Ph.D. for a design and media research in the field of usability, communication and perception of videotelephony at the Bauhaus-University Weimar. Research focus: design and media research, design and media theory, history of design and media with a focus on german design between 1919 and 1990. He is member and treasurer of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e.V.) and member of the German Society for Media Studies and the German Society for Designtheory and -research (DGTF).