GRK 891:  Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present

• Subject Area: History
• Term: from 2003 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273619

The Research Training Group analyses the form and function of the ways in which key events from the printing revolution up to the globalised age of the internet are being produced by the media.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Marcel Baumgartner; Professor Dr. Horst Carl; Professor Dr. Peter Haslinger; Professor Dr. Claus Leggewie; Professor Dr. Sighard Neckel; Professor Dr. Ansgar Nünning; Professor Dr. Rolf Reichardt; Professor Dr. Dietmar Rieger; Professorin Dr. Silke Tammen (†)
• Spokespersons: Professor Dr. Frank Bösch, until 10/2007; Professor Dr. Dirk van Laak, since 10/2011
• Deputy: Professorin Dr. Claudia Hattendorff, since 10/2011