Educational Media Research

Introduction

 In our age of GPS (Global Positioning System), maps are becoming increasingly prominent. More detailed than ever before, they depict social contexts and provide insights into complex structures. They thus provide access to data that are of great importance for future planning and political decision-making; accordingly, there is only a fine line between the use of such information to the service of mankind and its misuse. This is not only the case in our present time; maps have always been some of the best-kept state secrets, and have been subject to distortion as well as manipulation.

The following dossier is the result of a conference held by the Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss Foundation on 26^th and 27^th September 2008 at Berlin State Library. The aim of the event was to raise awareness of the power of maps and, at the same time, call for a more intensive dissemination of competences in the use of this medium.

Announcement
The following contributions are currently in preparation:

Bruno Schelhaas  -  „… die vielgenannte terra icognita endlich einmal enthüllt vor Augen“- Die Gothaer Afrikakartographie und der geographische Wissenstransfer im 19. Jahrhundert
   
Björn Brosius
Die deutsch-deutsche Grenze in NVA-Karten

Gregor Falk
Die Faszination des Weltganzen - Satellitenbilder in Wissenschaft und Unterricht

Eva Kleinschmidt
Westermann-Volksschulatlanten zwischen 1933 und 1942

Wolfgang Kreft
Historisch-topographischer Atlas schlesischer Städte.
Ein Multimediaprojekt des Herder-Instituts Marburg

Sebastian Lentz
Als die Karten laufen lernten - animierte und interaktive Kartographie aus dem Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Note on the dossier sections (footnotes)
For technical reasons, footnotes are not yet available for the online version. You can, however, currently read the footnotes using the PDF documents.