What are media actually? And what are hypermedia and multimedia? The term of the medium is used in the most different meanings and contexts.

The most common approach is a technological one and focuses on "Where is the information?".

In media education an approach of the adult and media paedagogue Bernd Weidenman was established.

German philosopher Sybille Kämer calls media the 'blind spot' in the medium use. An illustrated medium-philosophical approch by Sybille Krämer will be shown on Thursday. We have extracted some anchor ideas from her work.

Another interesting theory on how new media depend on "old media" has been developed by the american computer scientists Jay D. Bolter and Richard Grusin. They encapulated their theory framework in the term 'Remediation'.