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We have long moved on from a mere information age to the era of big data. Here, databases represent both the enormous potential for gaining knowledge of data collection and the alarming information excesses of digital culture. Furthermore, the term refers to concrete technologies and processes of gathering and accessing digital information. Media theory has to locate databases in between these very different conceptions. Marcus Burkhardt retraces the history of databases and asks how technical procedures of processing digital information determine what can be found how in databases and what knowledge can be gained through them.

big data --- media --- medien --- internet --- digital media --- media history --- search engine --- computer --- mediengeschichte --- medienwissenschaft --- digitale medien --- media studies --- suchmaschine --- datenbank --- media theory --- medientheorie --- database

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Nowadays, media determine the daily routine of schools. But what are media? How has media been fought about over the centuries? This volume offers the foundations for a qualified confrontation with questions of media reflection and the use of media in school praxis. A historical overview shows the structures of the debates around the possibilities and dangers of the use of media, and thus serves to make the debate more objective. The comprehensible and competent representation of the central concepts, developments and discoveries of media theory make this book essential reading for students in education and student teachers from diverse subject areas.

handbuch --- pedagogy --- media --- medien --- medienerziehung --- schule --- bildung --- medienreflexion --- medienpädagogik --- media education --- introduction --- pädagogik --- handbook --- medienwissenschaft --- school --- media studies --- einführung --- education --- media theory --- medientheorie --- reflection of the media

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The rise of the term "environment" to describe the present marks the influence that reflection on environmental relations and the possibility of engineering artificial environments have gained since the mid-nineteenth century. In closed artificial worlds such as space stations or artificial ecosystems, the entanglement of the "environment" with the surrounding organisms becomes the subject of a biopolitics that today opens up new spaces in autonomous environmental control technologies. Florian Sprenger pursues this transformation of ecological environmental knowledge with the aim of better understanding current technologies, making the term understandable and highlighting the biopolitical dimension of each ecology.

Media --- Technology --- Ecology --- Environment --- Biopolitics --- Surrounding --- Artificiality --- Organism --- Environmental Knowledge --- Science --- Media Theory --- History of Science --- Media Studies --- Medien --- Technik --- Ökologie --- Environment --- Biopolitik --- Umgebung --- Künstlichkeit --- Organismus --- Autonome Technologie --- Umgebungswissen --- Wissenschaft --- Medientheorie --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- Medienwissenschaft