Ingrid Volkmer is associate professor at the University of Melbourne Australia and deputy director of the Media and Communications program. She has taught at universities in Germany (Bielefeld and Augsburg), Austria (University of Innsbruck) and was a faculty member at the New School University, New York, where she taught in the Media Management Program. Her major field of interest is global communication and its effects on cultures, societies and the “public sphere.” She has published numerous articles and books in Germany and the U.S. Among her publications is News in the Global Sphere: A Study of CNN and Its Impact on Global Communication (University of Luton Press, UK). Volkmer currently directs the international research consortium “Global Media Generations,” which analyzes news memories of three generations in twelve countries worldwide. Her research project will focus on the “Parameters of the Global Public Sphere: Topographies of News Memories Across Generations.”
Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations.
January 1, 2003
Ingrid Volkmer, spring 2002 fellow, argues that the spread of international news channels has created “imagined communities,” which affect political alliances, conventional journalism and – increasingly – national public spheres. This paper discusses new issues of globalization and focuses on the impact of media-related globalization processes on “life-worlds” in various countries. Download the paper (PDF).
