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The lecture series provides an overview of various methodological approaches in current media-historical research. By focusing on methodological issues, the lecture aims to show that the history of media is not simply limited to the historical development and succession of cultural techniques, media technologies, production cultures and the like, but that as media historiography, i.e. as media historiography, it rather encompasses a broad spectrum of different histories of media in the plural, which can sometimes differ greatly in terms of their subject areas, approaches and objectives. Firstly, the development of media technology within and outside of media studies is constantly changing the concept of what is understood as a "medium" or what should be problematized. Secondly, media historiography responds to social debates and also reacts to shifts within the academic discourse itself, under the influence of which the ways and means of telling media history also change. As a result, media historiography is itself an object of historical change.

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