Broadcasting History in the Transnational Space

* University professor Jürgen Grimm PhD, University of Vienna, Department of Communication
* Professor Rainer Gries PhD, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena

The project "History on TV" is part of the interdisciplinary project "Broadcasting History in the Transnational Space" (Project coordinator: Rainer Gries) of historians and communication scientists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, USA and Israel. The project analyses the changed framework for the science of history and for the didactics of history which result of a broad focus on historical topics by the mass media. Firstly, the project concentrates on the Second World War, the Holocaust and National Socialism. Our assumption is that media communication heavily influences society's conception of history. Goal of the collaboration is to understand media factors of influence to increase the chance of a cultivated media use to impart history.

The following projects are also part of the international collaboration:

Project: Strategies of personalization and the significance for the reception of different historical TV formats 

* Professor Silke Satjukow PhD, University of Magedeburg (Germany)

Project: Media Event East Front

* University Professor Norbert Frei PhD, University of Jena (Germany)
* University Professor Wulf Kansteiner PhD, State University of New York, Binghamton

Project: Movies in history lessongs. An internationally comparative stury about teacher's beliefs and lessons scripts

* Sabine Horn PhD, University of Göttingen (Germany)

Project: Digital Realism als an authenticating form of historical knowledge: media specific forms of representation of history in computer games

* Tim Raupach PhD, Braunschweig University of Art