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Eggo Müller is a visiting professor in Screen Arts and Cultures. Eggo (yes, indeed, like the waffles , but it is a traditional Frisian name and I was first!) has taught courses on TV, New Media and Popular Culture at the Free University Berlin ( Germany ), the University of Hildesheim ( Germany ), the Film & TV School Potsdam-Babelsberg ( Germany ) and at the Utrecht University (The Netherlands). In Utrecht , he is the Director of the Master Program in Film- and Television Studies.
Eggo Müllers 's research and teaching centers on the transformation of television, entertainment and participatory cultures. His PhD on Dating Shows ( Paarungsspiele: Herzblatt, Beziehungsshows und das neue Fernsehen . Berlin : Sigma 1999) analyses a genre that is one of the key forerunners of today's Reality TV, his latest book ( Not Only Entertainment: Studien zur Pragmatik und Ästehtik der Fernsehunterhaltung ; forthcoming) investigates the transformation and ‘entertainmentization' of German television in the past 25 years and offers a culturally and historically founded theory of entertainment..
Currently, Eggo is working on a project entitled ‘Popular Participatory Television' which explores old and new forms of participatory television and digital television's reshaping the producer/consumer relationship .
At the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, his teaching includes SAC 375 Television Theory (winter 2008), SAC 601 Seminar in Theories of Film or Electronic/Digital Media (fall 2007), and SAC 485 The Future of Television (winter 2008).
Publications include:
Not Only Entertainment. Studien zur Ästhetik und Pragmatik der Fernsehunterhaltung. Hamburg: University of Hamburg (forthcomming).
[ online ]"Access to the living room: Triple play and interactive television reshaping the producer/consumer relation", in S. van der Graaf & Y. Washida, eds., ICTs and Emergent Business Strategies (Hershey: Idea Group, 2006), pp. 179-190.
"Interaktivtät: polemische Ontologie und Transformation der Medien", in Britta Neitzel & Rolf Nohr, eds., Das Spiel mit dem Medium: Partizipation, Immersion, Interaktion (Marburg: Schüren, 2006), pp. 66-79.
" Performativ, transformativ, interaktiv: Fernsehen als Dienstleistungsagentur im digitalen Medienensemble" , in Montage/AV vol. 14, no. 1, 2005, pp. 136-154.
Medienf ußball im europäischen Vergleich. Editor, with Jürgen Schwier (Köln: Herbert v. Halem, 2006).
Nicht allein das Laufbild auf der Leinwand... Strukturen des Films als Erlebnispotentiale. Editor, with Jörg Frieß & Britta Hartmann (=Beiträge zur Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft, Vol. 60, Berlin: Vistas, 2001)
Paarungsspiele. Beziehungsshows in der Wirklichkeit des neuen Fernsehens (Berlin: Edition Sigma 1999)
Film und Geschichte. Dokumentation der GFF-Tagung, Berlin 1994. Editor, with Knut Hickethier & Rainer Rother (Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1997)
[ online ] "Populärkultur: Erfahrungshorizont im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Gespräch mit John Fiske", in Montage/AV vol. 2, no.1 (1993), pp. 5-18 [ English version: " From 'Ideology' and 'Power' to 'Discourse' and 'Pleasure' " ]
Fernsehshows. Form- und Rezeptionsanalyse. Editor, with Hans-Otto Hügel ( Hildesheim: Medien und Theater, Vol. 1, 1993)
Mauer-Show. Das Ende der DDR, die deutsche Einheit und die Medien. Editor, with Rainer Bohn & Knut Hickethier ( Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1992)
Ansichten einer künftigen Medienwissenschaft. Editor, with Rainer Bohn & Rainer Ruppert (Berlin: Edition Sigma, 1988)
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