02/2022 – 01/2025
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Transdisciplinary and transformative framework for teachers & lecturers
The ikum offers projects in research, developmental & consulting based on the departments within the Media faculty.
The ikum (Institut für Kommunikation und Medien / Institute for Communication & Media) combines the media faculty’s activities in research and development into a wide range of digital and analogue media aspects – actively contributing to the creation of a scientific profile at the Mediencampus.
By including students in its project work, the ikum supports the internal transfer of results in research and development. Offering qualified training and education programs, the ikum makes an important contribution to life-long learning.
By conferring doctorates in close cooperation with in-house and external scientific institutions, the ikum actively supports the scientific growth of young academics at the Mediencampus.
For our research and development projects, we have access to the various areas of expertise existing at the Mediencampus.
The ikum’s research & development projects have a strong practical relevance and are typically financed by third-party funds.
The six departments – Information & Media Ethics, Journalism, Communication, Artistic Research & Applied Media Aesthetics, Life-long Learning and Media Systems – currently define the key topics of the research and development activities in the faculty of Media. Additionally, interdisciplinary topics such as sustainability, digitization and artificial intelligence are researched across departments.
The Department of Information & Media Ethics houses a broad spectrum of applied ethics. Its focus lies in the area of advertising & PR ethics, digital media ethics, Big Data, machine & algorithm ethics.
In the Journalism department, we discuss current questions and problems regarding the topics text production, editorial organization, as well as formats in the fields online or scientific journalism.
Research in the area of strategic communication covers many issues in public relations for companies, institutions and NGOs. The focus is on sustainability communication and digital communication including social media, new publics, and current issues in online PR.
This field explores our need for expression, dramaturgy, the language of symbols, communication architecture and reception models in the light of transformed technical, social and philosophical conditions of innovative media equipment, – both in theory and practical application.
We understand the field of life-long learning as being in close relation with the digital transformation and the changing of work life. By focusing on informal strategies of learning and on competences for lifelong learning itself, we also directly connect to our undergraduate studies.
The field of Media Systems examines the development and constructive design of future-oriented information systems and services with media content in the following areas: interactive media, game & animation, video & sound.
As an interdisciplinary research group we examine topics and questions regarding the handling of multimedia objects and collections in the context of digitally-supported science.
In cooperation with our practical partners we develop methods and concepts for the preservation of scientific and cultural heritage in the digital domain.
The institute’s objectives and responsibilities as well as its organizational structure are stated in its statute (German only).