Martin Hennig

Universität Passau

Dr. Martin Hennig studied Literature and Media Studies, Psychology and Education at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Since 2010 he has been a scientific coworker in the area of Media and Cultural Studies. He completed his doctorate in 2015 with the thesis “Spielräume als Weltentwürfe. Kultursemiotik des Videospiels” (Marburg: Schüren 2017), which received the dissertation prize of the University of Passau. From 2016 Martin Hennig worked as a postdoc at the DFG Research Training Group 1681/2 “Privacy and Digitalization”. He currently substitutes the Chair of Media and Cultural Studies with a focus on “Digital Cultures” in Passau. Main areas of work: Game Studies, Cultural and Media Semiotics, Film and Television Analysis, Theories of Space.

Further information and a list of publications are available here.

All Sessions by Martin Hennig

  • 20. Nov | Summit Day

    The Summit Day will feature talks, project presentations, panel discussions, and workshops.

  • 14:00  - 15:00
    Especially with regard to digital games, an ideology-critical perspective is complex, since different layers have to be considered and put in relation to each other. Thus values and norms are represented on the levels of narration, game mechanics and visualization and their relation to each other would have to be examined. Therefore, the workshop will present and discuss specific methods from Cultural Semiotics for value analysis. After a general introduction to possible dimensions of analysis, this will be done using the example of interactive fairy tales. The dialogue with researchers*, educators* and practitioners* will focus on the question of how to identify media specifics in the communication of values, deal with critical aspects and at the same time use the potential of digital games for the media education of children and adolescents.
    20. Nov | Media Education Summit: Digital Games and Children
    Where
    room 108 (ifs)




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