Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Revolutionizing the Public Sphere: The Invasion of the Working Class in the Media of the Weimar Republic

My dissertation employs a combination of methods that also apply to my digital project. At the core of each chapter and my digital project (a Scalar book) is a close analysis of the primary work. I focus on the interaction of text with visual media and concentrate on the triangulation of the essayists, their reader/viewer and the portrayal of a German public sphere. In my second chapter, that forms the basis for my digital project, I investigate how text-image-combinations can be understood as functional montages that educate the reader to view photographs less as authentic documents for mass consumption, but as powerful means to change the public sphere.