Professor Kittler featured in Medien & Zeit

The most recent issue of Medien & Zeit - a communication history journal based in Vienna , Austria - featured a piece written by Dr. Juraj Kittler as its leading article. The entire issue was dedicated to new theoretical approaches to communication history research in Europe. Dr. Kittler’s article argues that European historians need to start looking beyond the boundaries of traditional states and their national/local media histories. For example, the understanding of American journalism and its historical influence on European newsrooms is almost indispensable for capturing the ways in which the news media in most of the European countries developed – mainly in the past hundred years. Emblematic for this trend is the emergence of The New York Times as the global newspaper of record that promoted world-wide the ideas of scientific rationalism with its notion of objective interpretation of social reality, as well as pragmatic, bottom-line driven interest to rationalize the newsroom production that was embodied in the inverted-pyramid story composition.

Full Citation:

Kittler, Juraj. "Learning from Braudel: A Quest for a Comprehensive History of the Public Sphere." Medien & Zeit 26.4 (2011): 6-15.