My name is Benjamin Jörissen, Dr. phil., and I am a Professor per procurationem for Appled Media Science at the Institute for Pegagogy at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich(Germany). My work (postdoctoral lecture qualification) focuses on Medienbildung (media literacy/education), that is how the social web transform and enhance the way people experience themselves, the world, and others.
My research is based on the assumption that the internet is a space where new, formally unknown kinds of informal educational cultures emerge - such as online-communities, social networks and metaverses (like Second Life). While I recognize that other media, like verbal and auditive articulations, are also of great importance, I believe that the significant changes of visual culture in the new media are bound to play a major role for future modes of gaining identities, experiencing others, and seeing the world.
Due to my former work, I am especially attentive to issues concerning the relations of image, body, self and others/otherness. While my empirical research is mainly ethnographic, based on "Grounded Theory" (as developed by Glaser and Strauss, and recently innovated by Adele E. Clarkes grounded method of "Situational Analysis"), my theory toolbox includes critical theory (esp. Adorno), postmodern thinking (esp. Foucault), anthropology, constructivism (esp. Niklas Luhmann), symbolic interactionism (esp. G. H. Mead, including his late philosophical works), and, of course, cultural studies and visual culture discourses. - Well ... though we are standing on the shoulders of giants, the art is not to fall into the gaps between them. ;-)
Former and further fields of work include identity issues, which engaged me so much I had to write two books about (one as co-author); media issues like media anthropology (my dissertation - similar to PhD Thesis - focuses on the relations of media, image, and reality); film studies; and of course internet studies.
Born Sept. 8th, 1968 in Krefeld/NRW/Germany
Studied philosophy, educational science and german literature in Dusseldorf, Cologne and Berlin.
Received my M.A. degree in 2000 with highest grade (1,0). My master's thesis focused on the concept, the history and the critique of identity. It received the honour of being published by the Dep. of Educational Science and Psychology of the Freie Universität Berlin as the first volume of a still ongoing series "Berliner Arbeiten zur Kultur- und Erziehungswissenschaft" (Berlin Works in Cultural and Educational Science).
Worked as scientific collaborator at the Freie Universität Berlin, Dep. for Anthropology and Education, from 2000 to 2004.
Received my doctorate (Dr. phil.) with the grade "summa cum laude" at the Freie Universität Berlin in January 2005. My thesis is entitled "Medium - Image - Reality. The Reality of the Social and the New Media."
Participated in the DFG-funded Interdisciplinary Research Project "Kulturen des Performativen" (Cultures of the Performative) from 2000 to 2006.
Since October 2004, I'm employed as a research assistent at the University Magdeburg, where I'm working on my postdoctoral lecture qualification ("Habilitation") with a project entitled "Visual Educational Cultures in the New Media".
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