Dr. Andreas Fickers

Associate Professor Comparative Media History

Andreas Fickers is Associate Professor for comparative media history at the faculty of arts and social sciences. After finishing his highschool in Belgium, he studied history, philosophy and sociology at the universities of Aachen (G) and Reims (F), specializing on the history of science and technology and the sociology and philosophy of knowlegde. He rejoined Aachen University as research and teaching assistant in contemporary history after practical courses at the German Museum for science and technology in Munich and Bonn. His interest in media technologies resulted in a deeper concern for media history (especially radio and television). In 2003 he was appointed Assistant Professor for television history at the department for Media and Culture at Utrecht University, and set up a broader research agenda for a comparative European history of television. Since October 2007, he works at Maastricht University as a member of the department of Arts and Culture and the research group Science, Technology and Society.

His scholarly ambition is to bridge theoretical and methodological approaches from various disciplines (especially from history of technology and media and cultural studies) in order to further develop his ideas of a cultural history of media technologies.

Keywords

media history, cultural history of media technologies, history of technology, European cultural history