Univ.-Prof. Dr phil. Theo Hug

Focal points

• Media education
• Media education and basic digital education
• Education, media and knowledge theory
• Mobile learning and microlearning
• Methodology and philosophy of science

Research projects

• Media Activism - Forms of Popular Media Appropriation, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (with Dr Wolfgang Suetzl and Dr Felix Stalder, 2009-2013, 230k€)
• Digitization and Visualization of Archives and Collections - Development and application of concepts, methods and visual tools for interactive presentation and analysis of archivals (2018-2020, Lighthouse-projects in the Field of Digitization, Project #541-1-5 supported by the Tyrolean Regional Government, 200k€)
• Education and digital capitalism - Visualisation of selected argumentation contexts (in cooperation with Kathrin Jarosik, Madeleine Kaiserer, Jasmin Penz, Simon Haller-Seeber, Andreas Forster and Jan Willem Tulp, 2022-2025, General Funding, 15k€)
• INNALP Education Hub: Innovative, Inclusive, Sustainable Teaching and Learning Projects in the Centre of the Alps - sub-project "Media and Technocultures" in the Media, Inclusion & AI Space and in the EduMediaLab (FFG project, 2021-2025, total funding: 500k€).

Publications since 2017

Monographs and editorships

Mayrberger, Kerstin; Fromme, Johannes; Grell, Petra, & Hug, Theo (2017) (eds.): Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 13. Vernetzt und entgrenzt - Gestaltung von Lernumgebungen mit digitalen Medien. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (ISBN 978-3-658-16431-7).

Online journal Medienimpulse. Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik, special issue 'Tätigkeitsfelder schulischer Medienpädagog*innen' 1/2017 edited by Barberi, Alessandro; Missomelius, Petra & Hug, Theo. Available online at: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mp/issue/view/101

Burkhardt, Laura; Hierdeis, Helmwart & Hug, Theo (eds.) (2017): Critical Lessons. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903122-87-10).

Pietraß, Manuela; Fromme, Johannes; Grell, Petra, & Hug, Theo (2018) (eds.): Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 14. Der digitale Raum - Medienpädagogische Untersuchungen und Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (ISBN 978-3-658-19838-1).

Hug, Theo & Pallaver, Günther (eds.) (2018): Talk with the Bots - Conversational robots and social bots in discourse. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903187-29-0)

Hug, Theo (ed.) (2018): Media Education - Challenges for Learning and Education in the Media Age. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903187-30-6).

Hug, Theo; Mitterer, Josef & Schorner, Michael (eds.) (2019): Radical Constructivism - Past, Present and Future: Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917-2010) Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903187-52-8).

Holzmann, Katharina; Hug, Theo and Pallaver, Günther (eds.) (2019): The end of diversity? On the diversity of the media. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903187-83-2)

Beinsteiner, Andreas; Blasch, Lisa, Hug, Theo; Missomelius, Petra & Rizzolli, Michaela (eds.) (2020): Augmented and virtual realities. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-903187-89-4)

Hug, Theo & Poscheschnik, Gerald with the collaboration of Bernd Lederer and Anton Perzy (2020): Empirical research. On the planning and implementation of projects during studies. Constance and others: UVK/Huter&Roth (UTB, 3357; third, revised and supplemented edition, 978-3-8252-5303-5).

Gallner-Holzmann, Katharina; Hug, Theo & Pallaver, Günther (eds.) (2020): Young people's media use and the future of quality journalism. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-99106-014-7, DOI 10.15203/99106-014-7).

Hug, Theo; Maurer, Andreas & Thomas Walli (eds.) (2020): Crossing Borders - Passaggi di confine - Grenzgänge. Festschrift for Günther Pallaver. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-99106-024-6)

Bachor, Martina; Hug, Theo and Pallaver, Günther (eds.) (2021): DataPolitics - On dealing with data in the digital age. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-99106-046-8)

Beinsteiner, Andreas; Grünberger, Nina; Hug, Theo & Kapelari, Suzanne (eds.) (2022): Ecological crises and ecologies of critique. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press (ISBN 978-3-99106-086-4)

Hug, Theo and Penz, Jasmin (eds.) (2023): Blind spots in the media system? Quality journalism in crisis mode. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. DOI: 10.15203/99106-105-2 (ISBN 978-3-99106-105-2)

Beinsteiner, Andreas; Dittrich, Ann-Kathrin & Hug, Theo (eds.) (2024): Knowledge diversity and formatted educational spaces. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. DOI: 10.15203/99106-129-8 (ISBN 978-3-99106-129-8).

Hug, Theo; Missomelius, Petra; Ortner, Heike (eds.) (2024): Artificial Intelligence in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Present and Future of AI Applications. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. DOI 10.15203/99106-139-7 (ISBN 978-3-99106-139-7)

Articles in scientific journals

Hug, Theo (2017): Media - Generations - Knowledge. Reflections on media education research - illustrated by the example of the question of the world knowledge of global media generations. In: MedienPädagogik. Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung. http://dx.doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/retro/2017.07.02.X and http://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/517 (ISSN: 1424-3636).

Hug, Theo; Maurek, Johannes; Missomelius, Petra & Schroffenegger, Thomas (2017): Media Education specialisation - a new offer for student teachers. Areas of responsibility and fields of activity of graduates. In: Media impulses. Contributions to media education. Focus on "Fields of activity of school media educators". Available online at http://www.medienimpulse.at/articles/view/1035

Hug, Theo (2017): Openness in Education: Claims, Concepts, and Perspectives for Higher Education. In: Seminar.net - International journal of media, technology and lifelong learning. Vol. 13/No. 2 (2017), pp. 72-87 (ISSN 1504-4831). Online: https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/seminar/article/view/2308/2136

Hug Theo (2018): From Constructivist Monologues to Dialogues and Polylogues. Constructivist Foundations 13(2): 204-206. http://constructivist.info/13/2/204

Hug, Theo (2019): Robots as Friends, Co-Workers, Teachers and Learning Machines - Metaphorical Analyses and Ethical Considerations. In: Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska (ed.): E-learning and STEM Education (Vol. 11, series on E-Learning, pp. 17-34). Katowice - Cieszyn: Studio No for University of Silesia. ISSN: 2451-3644 (print edition) ISSN 2451-3652 (digital edition) ISBN 978-83-66055-11-7 (https://us.edu.pl/wydzial/wsne/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/01/E-learning-11.pdf).

Hug, Theo (2020): Mobilities and Ecologies: Reflections on Paradigms for Mobile Learning. In: Issue No. 37: Media Education as a Key Discipline in a Digitalised World: Perspectives from Theory, Empiricism and Practice Edited by Henrike Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, Lara Gerhardts, Anna-Maria Kamin and Sonja Kröger), pp. 67-81. https://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/721/862

Hug, Theo (2020): Non-dichotomous, non-dualistic and/or polylogical perspectives? - Critical considerations on theoretically informed practice improvement. In: Itdb, Vol. 1 - Research Forum "Reflection and Critique", pp. 22-25 (Lucerne University Press powered by ZHB Luzern DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3734998).

Hug, Theo (2020): Versions of contingency management - Some continuing suggestions with constructive intent. In: Itdb, Vol. 1 - Research Forum "Reflection and Critique", pp. 71-73 (Lucerne University Press powered by ZHB Luzern DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3734998).

Hug, Theo & Madritsch, Reinhold (2020): Global education industry - explorations on the state of affairs in Austria. Medienimpulse, 58(4), 55 pages. https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-04-20-03

Basogain, Xabier; Hug, Theo; Gurba, Krzysztof; Noskova, Tatiana; Morze, Natalia & Smyrnova-Trybulska, Eugenia (2020): STEM and STEAM in Contemporary Education - A discussion paper. In: E-learning, Vol. 12, Issue on Innovative Educational Technologies, Tools and Methods for E-learning. Scientific Editor: Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska. Katowice-Cieszyn 2020, pp. 242-256. DOI: 10.34916/el.2020.12.21 ISSN: 2451-3644 (print edition) ISSN 2451-3652 (digital edition) http://studio-noa.pl/doi/e-learning/12/el-2020-12-21.pdf

Hug, Theo & Leschke, Rainer (2021): "On the medialisation of the world and the mediatisation of discourse". Explorations between the poles of conceptual politics in medial infrastructures and concept-analytical differentiations. In: Media Theory, Vol. 5 | No. 1, pp. 59-88 (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/128/112)

Hug, Theo & Leschke, Rainer (2021). On the medialisation of the world and the mediatisation of discourse. Explorations between the poles of conceptual politics in medial infrastructures and concept-analytical differentiations. In: Media Theory, Vol. 5 | No. 1; pp. 59-88. https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/912 (ISSN 2557-826X)

Hug, Theo (2021): Towards Enhanced Perspectives of Critical Research Assessment. In: Constructivist Foundations, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 338-340 (ISSN 1782-348X). Available online at https://constructivist.info/16/3/338.hug

Hug, Theo & Leschke, Rainer (2022): 'Von der Medialisierung der Welt und der Mediatisierung des Diskurses'. Soundings in the field of tension between conceptual politics in media infrastructures and conceptual analytical differentiations. In: MedienPädagogik. Journal for Theory and Practice of Media Education (Occasional Papers): 137-161. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/00/2022.10.31.X (ISSN 1424-3636)

Glushkova, Todorka; Gurba, Krzysztof; Hug, Theo; Morze, Nataliia; Noskova, Tatiana & Smyrnova-Trybulska, Eugenia (2022): New Technologies in Personalisation of STEM and STEAM Education - International Context. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning. Vol. 1, No. 1 - DOI: 10.1504/ijceell.2022.10037158

Pallaver, Günther & Hug, Theo (2022): Right to vote for robots? Considerations on legal and political consequences of granting citizenship to social humanoid robots. In: Morals & Machines, 2(1), pp. 44-59. doi.org/10.5771/2747-5174-2022-1-44 (ISSN print: 2747-5174, ISSN online: 2747-5174).

Hug, Theo (2022): Digital Climate Change - Reflection Suggestions and Impulses for Teaching. Medienimpulse, 60(3), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-03-22-13 ISSN 2307-3187

Hug, Theo (2023): Enhancing Future Perspectives through Critical Analysis of Misleading Metaphors in Educational Contexts. Constructivist Foundations 19(1): 98-101. https://constructivist.info/19/1 (ISSN: 1782-348X).

Hug, Theo (2023): Education and 4e cognition: Some challenges at the crossroads of learning and Bildung. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 158-168. https://constructivist.info/18/2/158 (ISSN: 1782-348X).

Hug, Theo (2023): Author's reponse: Learning, Bildung, and Enactive Education. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 182-187. https://constructivist.info/18/2/182

Articles in edited volumes and encyclopaedias

Hug, Theo (2017): Constructivism. In: Zieman, Kerstin (ed.): Lexikon zu Inklusion. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 154-156. (ISBN 978-3-647-70187-5)

Hug, Theo (2017): Between irrelevance and paradigmatic innovation. Metaphor-analytical explorations of the discourse of turns in Educational Sciences. In: Aßmann, Sandra; Moormann, Peter; Nimmerfall, Karina & Thomann, Mirjam (eds.): Wenden. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the phenomenon of turn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 13-35. (ISBN 978-3-658-14804-1)

Hug, Theo (2017): Wissenschaftsforschung als Wissenschaftskritik - Eine Thesenskizze. In: Burkhardt, Laura; Hierdeis, Helmwart & Hug, Theo (eds.) (2017): Critical Lessons. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 103-116.

Hug, Theo (2018): Microlearning and mobile learning. In: de Witt, Claudia & Gloerfeld, Christina (eds.): Handbuch Mobile Learning. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 321-340. [ISBN 978-3-658-19122-1, ISBN 978-3-658-19123-8 (eBook), h ttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19123-8]

Hug, Theo (2018): Challenges for learning and education in the media age - An introduction. In: Hug, Theo (ed.): Medienpädagogik - Herausforderungen für Lernen und Bildung im Medienzeitalter. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 7-17.

Hug, Theo (2018): RaV6Comix - A search for traces in the field of tension between comic reading and media research. In: Dallmann, Christine; Hartung, Anja; Aigner, Alfons & Buchele, Kai-Thorsten (eds.): Comics. Interdisciplinary perspectives from theory and practice on a stepchild of media education. Munich: Kopaed, pp. 191-196. [ISBN 978-3-86736-495-9]
Hug, Theo (2019): Visualising Archivals and Discursive Structures. Towards Enhanced Perspectives Using the Example of the Ernst-von-Glasersfeld-Archive. In: Benedek, András & Nyíri, Kristóf (eds.): Learning and Technology in Historical Perspective (= second volume of the series *Perspectives on Visual Learning*), pp. 161-171. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences/Budapest University of Technology and Economics [ISBN 978-963-313-306-4].

Hug, Theo (2019): Media Activism and Action-Oriented Learning. In: Hobbs, Renee and Mihailidis, Paul (Editors-in-Chief), Gianna Cappello, Maria Ranieri, and Benjamin Thevenin (Associate Editors): The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy. Chichester: JohnWiley & Sons (DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238.ieml0105) [DOIs: Print ISBN: 9781118978245| Online ISBN: 9781118978238| DOI: 10.1002/9781118978238].

Hug, Theo (2019): Openness in science and/as art - theses on higher education in the light of medialisation and digitalisation. In: Moser-Ernst, Sybille & Bertsch, Christoph (eds.): KUNST :: WISSENSCHAFT. Theory and practice using the example of the University of Innsbruck. An interdisciplinary study. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 223-237.

Hug, Theo (2019): From Literacy to an Ecology of Literacies? Reflections on Some Conceptual Issues. In: Gross, Barbara & Stadler-Altmann, Ulrike (Eds.): Beyond Educational Sciences Boundaries. Discourses on the Dissolution of Disciplinary Boundaries. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Publishers (pp. 145-160). (ISBN 978-3-8474-2368-3)

Gallner-Holzmann, Katharina; Hug, Theo & Oberbichler, Sarah (2020): Generous Interfaces Revisited - Examples of Designing Visual Structures for Digital Archives. In: Aczél, Petra; Benedek, András & Nyíri, Kristóf (Eds.): How Images Behave. (= Perspectives on Visual Learning, Vol. 4) pp. 249-254. Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences / Budapest University of Technology and Economics. ISBN 978-963-421-841-8

Hug, Theo (2021): Microlearning formats in crisis? Theses in the field of tension between corona-induced short-term solutions, apodictic lack of alternatives and open future perspectives. In: Moormann, Peter; Zahn, Manuel; Bettinger, Patrick; Hofhues, Sandra; Keden, Helmke Jan & Kaspar, Kai (eds.) (2021). Microformats. Interdisciplinary perspectives on current phenomena in digital media cultures. Munich: Kopead, pp. 83-98. ISBN 978-3-96848-023-7

Hug, Theo (2021): Sound Pedagogy Practices for Designing and Implementing Microlearning Objects. In: Corbeil, Joseph Rene; Khan, Badrul H. & Corbeil, Maria Elena (Eds.), Microlearning in the Digital Age. The Design and Delivery of Learning in Snippets. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 35-57.

Hug, Theo (2021): Theses on (dis)comfort in educational cultures of digitality. In: Hierdeis, Helmwart (ed.): Digitalisation and the common good. Kröning: Asanger, pp. 149-171. ISBN 978-3-89334-651-6

Hug, Theo, & Madritsch, Reinhold (2021). Global Education Industry - Exploring the state of affairs in Austria. Seminar.Net - International Journal of Media, Technology & Lifelong Learning, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.4254
https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/seminar/article/view/4254 ISSN: 1504-4831

Oberbichler, Sarah; Gallner-Holzmann, Katharina & Hug Theo (2021): Generous and inviting interfaces revisited: Examples of designing visual structures for digital archives. In: Information Design Journal. http://doi.org/10.1075/idj.20028.obe

Hug, Theo (2021): Five Theses on (Dis)Comfort in the Educational Cultures of Digitality. In: International Journal of Research in E-learning (IJREL), Vol 7 No 2, pp. 1-22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/IJREL.2021.7.2.02 (https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/IJREL/article/view/12331/10177) ISSN 2451-2583 (Print) ISSN 2543-6155

Hug, Theo (2022): Paradoxes of virtual participation. Explorations in the field of tension between co-creative design of free educational media and the global media education industry. In: Marci-Boehncke, Gudrun; Rath, Matthias; Delere, Malte & Höfer, Hanna (eds.): Media - Democracy - Education. Normative mediation processes and diversity in mediatised societies. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 95-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36446-5

Hug, Theo (2022): Microlearning Formats in Crisis? Theses in the Field of Tension Between Corona-Induced Short-Term Solutions, Apodictic Rhetoric's of no Alternatives and Perspectives Open to the Future. In E. Smyrnova-Trybulska, P. Kommers, M. Drlík, & J. Skalka (eds.), Microlearning. New Approaches to a More Effective Higher Education, (pp. 125-139) Springer Nature Switzerland DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13359-6_8

Hug, Theo (2022): Facing Futures Literacy. Online paper for the 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference - Facing the Future, Facing the Screen│November 17, 2022 organised by the Committee for Communication and Media Theory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, http://www.hunfi.hu/nyiri/FFF/papers/Hug_paper.pdf

Hug, Theo (2022): Promoting media education and media literacy (Target 16.10 - Option 18). In: Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria (ed.): UniNEtZ-Optionenbericht: Österreichs Handlungsoptionen zur Umsetzung der UN-Agenda 2030 für eine lebenswerte Zukunft. UniNEtZ - Universities and Sustainable Development Goals. Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria, Vienna, 10 pages. Online document: https://www.uninetz.at/optionenbericht_downloads/SDG_16_Option_16_18.pdf

Hug, Theo (2022): Promoting media education and media literacy. In: Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria (ed.): UniNEtZ-Optionenbericht: Österreichs Handlungsoptionen zur Umsetzung der UN-Agenda 2030 für eine lebenswerte Zukunft. UniNEtZ - Universities and Sustainable Development Goals. Overview of measures. Vienna: Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria, pp. 386-387 Online document: https://www.uninetz.at/optionenbericht_downloads/Option_16_18_Abstract.pdf

Hug, Theo (2022): Promoting media education and media literacy. In: Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria (ed.): UniNEtZ-Optionenbericht: Österreichs Handlungsoptionen zur Umsetzung der UN-Agenda 2030 für eine lebenswerte Zukunft. UniNEtZ - Universities and Sustainable Development Goals. Overview of measures. Vienna: Alliance of Sustainable Universities in Austria, pp. 386-387 (ISBN 978-3-901182-72-3)

Hug, Theo (2023): Digital basic education - A future-oriented model? In: Isop, Utta (ed.*): Learning in surveillance capitalism. Schools and universities for digital autonomy! Neu-Ulm: AG SPAK Books, pp. 52-54. https://www.agspak-buecher.de/Ueberwachungskapitalismus (ISBN 978-3-945959-66-4)

Hug, Theo (2023): Futures Literacy and the future of literacies. In: Höfer, Hanna; Delere, Malte & Vogel-Lefèbre, Tatjana (eds.): Education, Diversity and Media. Explorations along current lines of discourse. Festschrift for Gudrun Marci-Boehncke. Munich: kopaed, pp. 109-126. (ISBN 978-3-96848-090-9; eISBN 978-3-96848-690-1)

Hug, Theo (2024): Desiderata of AI literacy discourses. In: Hug, Theo, Missomelius, Petra; Ortner, Heike (eds.) (2024): Artificial Intelligence in Discourse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Present and Future of AI Applications. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, pp. 129-148.

Lectures since 2017

Invited lectures

Openness and sharing of archival records: research and educational potential. Lecture on 28 June 2017 as part of the symposium on "Fachinformation offen, digital, vernetzt - 25 Jahre Fachinformationssystem (FIS) Bildung / #FISBildung25" at the DIPF - German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt am Main

Visualising Archivals and Discursive Structures. Presentation on 27.04.2018 at the 8th Budapest Visual Learning Conference 2018 │ Communication - Culture - Consciousness, 26-28 April, 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Robots as Friends, Co-Workers, Slaves, and Learning Machines. Metaphorical Analyses and Ethical Considerations. Lecture on 04.12.2018 as part of the Austro-Canadian Roboethics Workshop "Humans - Robots - Relationships"

Robots as friends, companions and learning machines. Metaphorical analyses and ethical considerations, lecture on 24.01.2019 as part of the lecture series "Grundlagen der Inklusion, Mediatisierung und Theaterpädagogik" at TU Dortmund University in WS 2018/19

Microlearning - forays into the history of a dazzling concept. Lecture on 28 June 2019 as part of the event "Microformate. Mediale Kleinstformate zwischen (Re-)Produktion und Wahrnehmung" │ Interdisciplinary conference at the University of Cologne, 27-29 June 2019

Hug, Theo; Kommers, Piet; dos Reis, Antonio; Morze, Nataliia; Gurba, Krzysztof; Noskova, Tatiana; Issa, Tomayass; Hrubý, Miroslav; Glushkova, Todorka; Guncaga, Jan; Basogain, Xabier: STEM and STEAM in contemporary education (presentations and e-round table debate), 11th Annual International Scientific Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning, Katowice, 14.10.2019. Yakovleva, Olga; Hug, Theo; Bendin, Stefan; Basogain, Xabier: The Digital Revolution (E-round table debate). 11th Annual International Scientific Conference on Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning, Katowice, 14 October 2019.

Paradoxes of virtual participation in the field of tension between co-creative design of free educational media and the global media education industry; Keynote on 21 January 2021 at the IMEC Conference 2021 at TU Dortmund University on the topic "Media - Democracy - Education: Normative mediation processes and diversity in mediatised societies" (20-22.01.2021)

The Austrian Educational Industry Complex (together with Reinhold Madritsch), keynote speech and discussion in WG 3 "Educational Industries and Learning Technologies: Critique and Alternatives" at the conference "Bildung und digitaler Kapitalismus" on 20 June 2022 at the Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung in Remscheid

Facing Futures Literacy. Online lecture at the 10th Budapest Visual Learning Conference - Facing the Future, Facing the Screen│November 17, 2022 organised by the Committee for Communication and Media Theory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Robots as teachers? - Perspectives on media education in the age of machine learning, Presentation at the 11th Budapest Visual Learning Conference "Envisioning an Electrifying Future" on Nov. 13, 2024, organised by the University of Pécs and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Presentations at conferences

Opening Up Archives in a Digital Age - The Case of the Ernst-von-Glasersfeld-Archive. Presentation on 24.08.2017 at the ECER 2017 (22.-25.08.2017), 06 SES 08 JS, Reflecting OER Policies, Conceptualisations, and Practices. Joint Symposium NW 06 and NW 12

Bildungskulturen der Digitalität im Spannungsfeld von Gemeingütern und Bildungsindustrie 4.0. Lecture on 20 September 2017 as part of the symposium "Medienbildung zwischen Inklusionsansprüchen und Elitendenken. Theoretical considerations and practical examples" at the ÖFEB Congress 2017, 19 to 22 September 2017 at the Vorarlberg University of Teacher Education in Feldkirch in the Teacher Education West network

Mobilities and Ecologies: Reflections on Frameworks for Mobile Learning. Presentation on 19 March 2018 as part of the symposium "Challenges for Mobile Learning: Ecologies, Mobilities, and Migration" (SY-I-15) at the DGfE Congress 2018, at the University of Duisburg-Essen (18-21 March 2018) in Essen.

Hug, Theo; Pallaver, Günther: Robots' right to vote? Considerations on legal and political consequences of granting citizenship to social humanoid robots. Media in Transition 10, Cambridge/Boston, 17 May 2019

From Literacy to an Ecology of Literacies? Reflections on Some Conceptual Issues. Lecture at the SY Examining Digital and Media Literacy and Using Media for Rising Awareness on Literacy (06 SES 14) on September 6, 2019; ECER 2019 in Hamburg: Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future │September 3-6, 2019

Zur visuellen Erschließung von Archivmaterialien - Generous Interfaces Revisited, lecture together with Katharina Gallner-Holzmann and Sarah Oberbichler at the colloquium "Visualisierungen: You can see that!" at the University of Innsbruck, 23/02/2021

Theo Hug & Reinhold Madritsch: Global Education Industry. Exploring the state of affairs in Austria, lecture on 10 September 2021 at ECER 2021 in Geneva (Online) on the topic "Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations" (September 6-10, 2021)

Hans Czuma - Philosophical Texts, book presentation together with Helmwart Hierdeis on 29 Sept. 2021 at the bookstore liber wiederin

Futures Literacy and the Future Literacies, lecture as part of the symposium "Sustainability, Data and Futures Literacy: Reflecting different Forms of Dealing with Contingency" (06 SES Online 19A) - September 1, 2022 as part of ECER Plus 2022 in Yerevan: Education in a Changing World │September 1-10, 2022

Education, digital capitalism and sustainability, keynote speech as part of session 1m on "Education, digital capitalism and sustainability: future workshop on current discourses and connection points", organised by Nina Grünberger, Valentin Dander, Theo Hug & Reinhold Madritsch, 21 Sept. 2022 at the OEFEB Congress 2022 in Graz, 20.09.2022-23.09.2022

Changing Knowledge Ecologies in Educational Research Production in Austria, Germany, and Italy: Towards Customised Knowledge Diversity? Presentation together with Ulrike Stadler-Altmann and Barbara Gross on 25 August 2023 at the symposium "Customized Diversity? Critical Explorations of Educational Capitalism" (06 SES 16A) in the EERA Network: 06 Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures at ECER 2023 in Glasgow: The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research (August 22-25, 2023)

Robots as teachers? Perspectives on media education in the age of machine learning. Presentation at the conference "Die Gesellschaft der Medienpädagogik. Practices, theories and creative concepts for human media action" on 19 September 2024 as part of the autumn conference of the Media Education Section of the DGfE (in cooperation with the Media Education Section of the ÖFEB, the Department of Media Education at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Vienna and the Department of Media Education, Computer Science Education and Digitality at the PH Vienna), 19 and 20 September 2024 at the University of Vienna

Introduction to the symposium on "Heterogeneity of discourse forms. On the topicality of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)" in cooperation with Stephanie Graf, Anton Hütter, Josef Perger, Andreas Oberprantacher, Florian Pistrol and Michael Schorner on Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at Palais Claudiana, Innsbruck

Activities (since 2017)

• Deputy Head of the Department of Media, Society and Communication (2017 - 2020)
• Head of the Department of Media, Society and Communication (2020-2024)
• Head of the Advisory Board for the Media Education specialisation (since 2017) and the Advisory Board for Digital Basic Education and Computer Science (since 2024)
• Co-opted member of the CuKo teaching profession
• Member of the CuKo at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (until 2023)
• Member of the Faculty Council at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
• Student representative for the Media Education specialisation and for Digital Basic Education
• Spokesperson of the interfaculty forum Innsbruck Media Studies (until 2024)
• Faculty member of the doctoral programme Organising the Digital
• Member of appointment, personnel selection and habilitation committees
• Deputy delegate of the University of Innsbruck in the nationwide Forum New Media Austria (until 2021)
• Trustee of the Ernst von Glasersfeld Archive (together with Prof Josef Mitterer)

Peer review activities

Editorial Board Member (Journals and Book Series)

• Media Impulses - Contributions to Media Education
• Constructivist Foundations
• International Journal of Research in E-Learning (IJREL)
• Young Information Scientist (YIS)
• EduSol
• Book series "Digital Culture and Communication" at Springer (together with Kai-Uwe Hugger and Angela Tillmann)
• The small media series at Studia-Universitäts-Verlag (together with Günther Pallaver and Petra Missomelius)

Peer review activities (journals and conference papers)

• MedienPädagogik - Journal for the theory and practice of media education
• Media + Education (merzWissenschaft)
• Medienimpulse - contributions to media education
• Discourse on childhood and youth research
• Die Deutsche Schule (DDS) - Journal for Educational Sciences, Educational Policy and Educational Practice
• Journal for Educational Research (ZFB)
• Journal of Pedagogy (ZfP)
• Teacher training put to the test (LbP)
• German Society for Educational Science (DGfE)
• Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (ÖFEB)
• MedienJournal - Journal for media and communication research
• Seminar.net - Media, Technology & Lifelong Learning
• Media Education - Studi, ricerche, buone pratiche (Edizioni Erickson)
• New Media & Society (Sage)
• Institute for Adult Learning (IAL - Singapore)
• European Educational Research Association (EERA)
• European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
• International Council for Educational Media (ICEM)
• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Society for Media Studies (GfM)
• Media Theory (mt)
• Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (CJLT)
• Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Distance Learning (DLCC)
• Human technology - An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
• Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
• International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
• International Journal of Communication
• International Journal of Lifelong Education (IJLE)

Peer review activities (funding organisations)

• Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)
• OeAD - Agency for Education and Internationalisation
• Fund of the Austrian National Bank (ÖNB)
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Volkswagen Foundation
• Max Kade Foundation
• Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MUR)
• European Science Foundation (ESF)

Organisation of conferences and workshops

• Media Days at the University of Innsbruck (since 2004, since 2011 in cooperation with Moser Holding AG and the Austria Press Agency (APA), https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/)
• Conference series "Media - Knowledge - Education" (MWB) (see https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/verlagsverzeichnis/medien_wissen_bildung.html)
• Symposia and round tables in national and international contexts (ÖFEB, DGfE, EERA/ECER)
• Workshops in the EduMediaLab (https://www.uibk.ac.at/medien-kommunikation/institut/edumedialab/)