Im ersten, programmatischen Band der Schriftenreihe Medienkonvergenz/Media Convergence stellen herausragende Fachvertreter das transdisziplinare Forschungsfeld vor, in dem u.a. Publizistik (Russ-Mohl) und Medienrecht (Kirchhof), Buchwissenschaft (Fussel/Mittler), Narratologie (Ryan), Computerlinguistik (Ngomo) und Medienkunst (Curran/Dombois) kooperieren - und zwar sowohl in der historischen Situierung als auch in der zukunftsgewandten Analyse der Gegenwart.

Media convergence offers new opportunities to create and influence media content. This leads to numerous new forms of transmedia storytelling. They are the subject of this volume which contains contributions from experts of literary and cultural studies, of theatre and media studies, of ethnology and journalism.

Ideas about human nature are forms of anthropological knowledge; they are woven from ideas about human characteristics that vary historically and culturally: about the body, the psyche, the social context, and transcendence - in other words, about the "nature" or "essence" of humanity. This interdisciplinary publication uses representative case studies to explore the particularities and evolution of ideas about human nature, as communicated by the media, and to draw conclusions about the fundamental relationship between mediality and ideas concerning what it is to be human.