Prof Nina Grünberger, Ph.D.

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Prof Nina Grünberger Ph.D.
Department of Subject Didactics
Department of Media Education and Digital Literacy

Faculty of Teacher Education
University of Innsbruck
Fürstenweg 176
A-6020 Innsbruck

Room 322, 3rd floor

Tel. +43 512 507 43103


Email: Nina.Gruenberger@uibk.ac.at

Nina Grünberger

Links:

personal Bluesky account: @ngruenberger.bsky.social

Consultation hours

During the semester, you can register for a consultation hour via the link below.

The appointments usually take place on Wednesdays from 09:00-10:00 either in presence or online (see booking list). It is not possible to spontaneously switch from a face-to-face consultation to online or vice versa.

Appointments can be booked or cancelled up until the Sunday before the Wednesday appointment, i.e. 3 days before the appointment.

Please be sure to state your request in a few words. (This is possible when booking via the "Additional information" field)

If you register for a consultation appointment for a qualification paper, please be sure to send an exposé or an interim status of the paper by e-mail no later than the Sunday before the midweek appointment (i.e. 3 days in advance).

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  • since 02/2026 Professor (§98 UG) for Digital Literacy and Media Didactics, Department of Subject Didactics, University of Innsbruck
  • 09/2022-01/2026 Professor (W2) for Pedagogy in Digitality, Institute for General Pedagogy and Vocational Education (TU Darmstadt)
  • 10/2022-01/2026 Deputy Managing Director of the Institute for General and Vocational Education (TU Darmstadt)
  • 04/2021-09/2021 Deputy Professor of Media Education, Chair of Media Education, Faculty of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Institute of Art, Music and Media, Heidelberg University of Education
  • 04/2017-08/2022 Contract university lecturer, Centre for Learning Technology and Innovation (ZLI) at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Educational Focuses (IBS) at the Vienna University of Teacher Education
    • 06/2017-03/2018 Parental leave
    • 05/2020-03/2021 Parental leave
  • 10/2016 - 02/2017 Head of Education Management, "Die Wiener Bildungsdrehscheibe" / Fond Soziales Wien
  • 06/2015 - 10/2016 Research assistant, development and research project "MediaMatters! Media Education as School Development", Seminar for Media Education / European University of Flensburg
  • 08/2011 - 04/2015 Research Assistant; Course Director, Department for Interactive Media and Educational Technologies, Centre for Media-supported and Individualised Learning / Danube University Krems
  • 03/2014 - 10/2016 PhD programme in Educational Science, University of Innsbruck, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Theo Hug
  • 05/10/2016 Completion of the PhD programme
  • 03/2006 - 12/2009 Diploma programme in Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna
  • 10/2005 - 11/2009 Diploma programme in Education, University of Vienna

Research Areas

  • Media education in the digital age
  • Digitality and sustainability
  • Media education and globalisation | Thinking media education globally
  • Social diagnoses, digitality and education
  • Media education in schools and basic digital education

Memberships

  • Full member of the DGfE - German Society for Educational Sciences
  • Full member of ÖFEB - Austrian Society for Research & Development in Education
  • Member of the Advisory Forum of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA)
  • 2022-2024 Member of the Board of the Media Education Section of the DGfE - German Society for Educational Sciences

Lectures (selection)

2024

Lecture: From colonialism to code. Insights into postcolonial entanglements and decolonisation in digitality. Lecture series Master Intermedia at the University of Cologne, Department of Art and Music.

2023

confirmed: Lecture (invited): On the relevance of inequality of learning and education in digitality (working title). Conference: "Learning Experiments and Learning Machines: Historical and systematic perspectives on functional learning", TU Darmstadt, 14.03-15.03.2024.

Lecture together with Eckert, G.: Der Überfluss der Sparsamkeit oder sparsamer Überfluss? A critical examination of the use of 'resources' in educational processes in the context of adult education, ESD and digitality. Conference of the Adult Education Section of the DGfE, Munich. 11.9.2023

Lecture together with Eckert, G.: Envisioning futures with the means of art - A pedagogical approach of polis in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD). PEA - Pedagogy, Education, Arts. Merano/Italy. 8 and 9 September 2023

Lecture: Daring to take a differentiated look at 'grand narratives' in the context of digitality and sustainability? at the Spring Conference of the Section Media Education, DGfE, Leuphana University, Lüneburg. 30.03.2023. Conference website

Online lecture: Climate crisis and media education? Occasion to take a global, postcolonial perspective. University of Rockstock. Lecture series on media education - media literacy. 12.01.2023

2022

Lecture (with live stream): Where am I, who am I, how b1n 1ch1100101110? An attempt to categorise the pedagogical understanding of the subject in the course of time. 18th Interdisciplinary Conference of the JFF - Institute for Media Education. Title "Digital. Sovereign. Media Competent. The sovereign subject in media education - model or fairy tale?" 25.11.2022. Munich.

Online lecture and future workshop: Education, sustainability & digitality. Together with Prof Valentin Dander and Prof Theo Hug. ÖFEB Congress 2022, Graz. Educational research in and for times of change. 21.09.2022

Online lecture: Digitality, Sustainability and Uncertainty in School. Facing didactic challenges. ECER-Plus 2022/Yerevan, 1.9.2022. https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-2022-yerevan/

2021

Online lecture. The Conundrum of Sustainability and Digitality and its Relevance for Schools. Public lecture series: medien:bildung:digitalität. Perspectives and challenges for schools in the digital transformation. University of Siegen. 22.12.2021

Online lecture: Sustainably digital? - On the relationship between digitality and sustainability. Heidelberg University of Education. ESD lecture series. 19.10.2021

before 2021

Online lecture: Climate protection & digitalisation in schools. EduDays 2020, Krems an der Donau. 01.04.2020.

Lecture: Outline of a global, postcolonial media pedagogy using the example of ecological implications of mediatisation. Magdeburg theory forum, 29.06.2019.

Lecture: Between coltan mines and electronic waste stands 'media education'. Event: Lecture at the autumn conference Sekt. Medienpädagogik der DGfE: Media education in times of profound mediatisation. University of Bremen. 21.09.2018.

Lecture: Contemporary education. Towards a contemporary understanding of education. Event: Lecture as part of the lecture series of the study programme "Intermedia", University of Cologne. 04.07.2017.

Lecture: Situated. Participative. Adaptive. Collaboration in pedagogical research and practice in the project MediaMatters! (Flipped-Conference Talk together with Kutter, C.; Lamm, H.). Event: 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Media in Science: Digital Media: Collaboration in Education. Innsbruck, 01.09.2016. Honoured with the Best Paper Award (Category: Theory)

Lecture: Media education as a discipline at all? A back-to-front approach to the media education discipline question based on a concrete research project. Event: 60 years of the Institute for Media Education Salzburg and DGPuK conference, Mauterndorf, 30 April 2016.

Discussions & Media

ZDF programme: Media education in the classroom

Panel discussion: Educational policy programmes and positioning of media education. Autumn conference of the media education section of the DGfE, FernUniversität Hagen, 22.09.2022

Panel discussion: Ethics and media education, specialist conference as part of the media literacy awards ceremony, 24 October 2019.

A1 education roundtable: How digitalisation is changing our communication behaviour in schools. with Education Minister Heinz Faßmann, among others. Link to the event. Vienna, 29 April 2019.

Panel discussion: Internationality and diversity. Together with Theo Hug, Petra Grell and Heinz Moser. 26.09.2019. PH Zurich. Conference of the DGfE Section Media Education: "Learning with and about media in a digital world".

Publications (selection)

A complete list of publications can be found on my website Zotero profile

Monographs

Grünberger, N. (2017). Contemporary education. Towards a contemporary understanding of education and media. Innsbruck: Innsbruck UnivPress.

Editorships

Beinsteiner, A., Grünberger, N., Hug, T., & Kapelari (eds.), S. (2022). Ecological crises and ecologies of critique. innsbruck university press. https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/oekologische-krisen_mwb/10.15203-99106-086-4.pdf (opens in new tab)

Grünberger, N.; Himpsl-Gutermann, K.; Szucsich, Petra; Brandhofer, Gerhard; Huditz, Edmund; Steiner, Michael (eds.) (2017). Rethinking school and designing it medially. Glückstadt: vwh-Verlag. www.gestalte.schule

Holub, B., Himpsl-Gutermann, K., Mittlböck, K., Musilek-Hofer, M., Varelija-Gerber, A., & Grünberger, N. (eds.). (2021). lern.medien.werk.statt. University learning workshops in the digital age. Klinkhardt.

Editorials

Alessandro Barberi, Nina Grünberger, Thomas Ballhausen, & Caroline Grabensteiner. (2022). Editorial 04/2022: Media pedagogical designs of the present: Normativity, responsibility, justice. Medienimpulse (Vienna), 60(4). https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-04-22-22

Alessandro Barberi, Christian Swertz, Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann, & Nina Grünberger. (2020). Editorial 4/2020: Making and Makerlabs. Medienimpulse (Vienna), 58(4). https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-04-20-27

Grünberger, N., Barberi, A., Himpsl-Gutermann, K., & Ballhausen, T. (2020). Sustainability, digitalisation and media education? - On new challenges and responsibilities. Medienimpulse, Vol. 58(No. 03 (2020)). https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mp/article/view/4120/4123

Nina Grünberger, Barberi, A., & Schmölz, A. (2020). Closeness(es) and distance(s) in times of the COVID-19 crisis. Media impulses, Vol.58 (2), 1-20. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mp/article/view/3802/3647

Contributions in edited volumes

Grünberger, N. (in print): From colonialism to code. Decolonial-deconstructive questions on pedagogical negotiations of digital-capitalist structures. In: Dander, V. et al (eds.): Education and digital capitalism. kopaed. Munich.

Grünberger, N. & Nàrosy, T., & Schratz, M. (2024). What and who counts? Education in digitality and school in the context of AI developments. In H.-G. Rolff & G. Brägger (Eds.), Handbook of learning with digital media. Beltz Publishing House.

Grünberger, N. & Eckert, G. (2024). Envisioning futures with the means of art - A pedagogical approach of polis in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD). In PEA - Pedagogy, Ecology and the Arts: Vol. Conference. S.144-152 https://iris.unive.it/retrieve/a1573f93-7629-47cb-b23a-6eaa4ef240c4/Critique%20of%20bewilderment.pdf (opens in new tab)

Grünberger, N., Himpsl-Gutermann, Hoehling, J., Revyakina, E., Danhel, F., Sankofi, M., & Szucsich, P. (2024). Education for Sustainability via, despite and in Digital Media: Ways of Teaching Sustainability in Digitality. In B. Maurer, M. Rieckmann, & J.-R. Schluchter (Eds.), Media-Education-Sustainable Development. Inter- and transdisciplinary discourses (pp. 330-342). Beltz. PDF

Grünberger, N., & Dander, V. (2024). On the discussability of preferred futures in a sustainable digitality. In B. Maurer, M. Rieckmann, & J.-R. Schluchter (Eds.), Media-Education-Sustainable Development. Inter- and transdisciplinary discourses (pp. 42-56). Beltz. PDF

Grünberger, N. (2023). Participation as a Key Principle of Education for Sustainable Development in the Postdigital Era. In A. Weich & F. Macgilchrist (Eds.), Postdigital Participation in Education: How Contemporary Media Constellations Shape Participation (pp. 13-34). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38052-5

Grünberger, N. (2023). 'What am I supposed to do when Google is playing its games? On the question of responsibility of media education and education for sustainable development in digitality. MedienPädagogik: Journal for Theory and Practice of Media Education, 52, 361-382. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/52/2023.02.18.X

Grünberger, N. (2022). Sufficiency, digitality and digital capitalism. Challenges for media education. In A. Beinsteiner, N. Grünberger, T. Hug, & S. Kapelari (Eds.) (Eds.), Ecological crises and ecologies of critique (pp. 109-124). innsbruck university press. https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/oekologische-krisen_mwb/10.15203-99106-086-4.pdf (opens in new tab)

Together with Taffel, S. (2022). Politics, Sustainability and Post-Digitality - The role of political actors for a more sustainable digitality. In A. Beinsteiner, N. Grünberger, T. Hug, & S. Kapelari (Eds.) (Eds.), Ecological Crises and Ecologies of Critique (pp. 67-77). innsbruck university press. https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/oekologische-krisen_mwb/10.15203-99106-086-4.pdf (opens in new tab)

with Topfstedt, S., Schirmer, K., & Himpsl-Gutermann, K. (2022). Digitality, sustainability and education. Analysis of two didactic programmes for schools on the ecological implications of smartphones. In A. Beinsteiner, N. Grünberger, T. Hug, & S. Kapelari (Eds.) (Eds.), Ecological crises and ecologies of critique (pp. 239-252). innsbruck university press. https://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/buch_pdfs/oekologische-krisen_mwb/10.15203-99106-086-4.pdf (opens in new tab)

Grünberger, N. (2022). Digitality globally. In M. Zulaica y Mugica & K.-C. Zehbe (Eds.), Rhetorics of the digital: Addresses to pedagogy (pp. 143-160). Springer Fachmedien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29045-0_8

Grünberger, N. (2022). Didactic considerations at the interface of sustainability and digitality. Open Online Journal for Research and Education, 2022 (Nachhaltig bilden und Entwicklungsschritte begleiten), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.53349/resource.2022.iS22.a1035

Grünberger, N. (2021). A Culture of the Digital from a Micro and Macro Perspective. On the conceptual range of digitality with a focus on the educational context. In P. Moormann, M. Zahn, P. Bettinger, S. Hofues, H. J. Keden, & K. Kasper, (Eds.), Microformats. Interdisciplinary perspectives on current phenomena in digital media cultures. Kopaed. Munich. S.15-24

Grünberger, N. (2021). Postcolonial post-digital: Research fields and connection points for media education through a postcolonial perspective on a post-digitality. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 16(Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik), 211-229. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/jb16/2021.02.25

Grünberger, N., Himpsl-Gutermann, K., Szucsich, P., Schirmer, K., Sankofi, S., Frick, K., & Döbrentey-Hawlik, B. (2021). Participation, sustainability and openness as guidelines for media education projects. Medienimpulse (Vienna), 59(4). https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-04-21-15

Grünberger, N., & Szucsich, P. (2021). Sustainability in a Digital Age as a Trigger for Organisational Development in Education. In D. Ifenthaler, S. Hofues, M. Egloffstein, & C. Helbig (Eds.), Digital Transformation of Learning Organisations (pp. 189-202). Springer Open.

Grünberger, N., Nàrosy, T., & Schratz, M. (2021). The "Digital Literacy" curriculum for all."Policy Enactment" in digitality. In H.-G. Rolff & G. Brägger (Eds.), Handbook of learning with digital media (pp. 925-944). Beltz Publishing House.

Grünberger, N. (2020). Climate protection and digitalisation as a media pedagogical responsibility? In C. Trültzsch-Wijnen & G. Brandhofer (Eds.), Education and digitalisation. In search of competences and performances. Nomos.

Grünberger, N. (2019). Practical, theory-led and critically reflective. Medienimpulse, 57(3). https://doi.org/10.21243/mi-03-19-15

Grünberger, N. (2019). Fragmented and fluid? An outline of educational processes along profound medialisation processes. In M. Oberlechner & R. Schneider (Eds.), Fluidität.Bildet. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag.

Grünberger, N., & Münte-Goussar, S. (2019). Media Education and the Culture of School - Practical Theoretical Approaches to Researching School in a Mediatised Society. In T. Knaus (Ed.), Research Workshop Media Education. Project - Theory - Method. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.25526/fw-mp.34

Grünberger, N.; Münte-Goussar, S. (2017). Media education and school culture. Implications of the connection between media education and school culture for media education. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, (29), 180-194. Retrieved from http://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/440

Grünberger, N. (2017). Media education?! A search for a contemporary discipline. In A. Hartung-Griemberg & C. Trültzsch-Wijnen (Eds.), Media education. Eine Standortbestimmung (pp. 103-114). Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag.

Grünberger, N; Kutter, C.; Lamm, H. (2016): Situated. Participative. Adaptive.
Collaboration in pedagogical research and practice in the MediaMatters! In: Josef Wachtler et. al (eds.): Digital Media: Collaboration in Education. Münster/New York: Waxmann. S.75-84. Honoured with the Best Paper Award (Category: Theory)

Grünberger, N. (2014): Spaces for strolling, playing and learning. Reflections on the design of educational and learning spaces in the context of cultural developments. In: Rummler, Klaus (ed.) Lernräume gestalten - Bildungskontexte vielfältig denken. Vol. 67. Media in science. Münster, Westf: Waxmann 2014.

Grünberger, N. (2014). Do people only win where they play? An essay on gamification for coping with the demands of the world of work. In A. Medosch, S. Vater, & I. Zwerger (Eds.), Magazin_erwachsenenbildung.at. The specialised medium for research, practice and discourse (vol. 22, pp. 2; 1-9). Vienna.

Keynotes

Keynote: A sustainable future with digital media? As part of the State Conference on Media Education & Digitisation on 26.09.24 at the Goethe University Frankfurt

Keynote: How do we want to live (sustainably) in the digital age? Lines of discourse and pedagogical implementation scenarios International Congress "Social Work and Digitality" at the FHNW School of Social Work in Olten 06 & 07/09/24 Link

Online keynote: Error 404 Not Found. On the future challenges of media education. As part of the "Digital Education 2022" symposium of the City of Dortmund. 29/09/2022

Keynote: Digitalisation and our earth. Demystification and visions; dialogue event of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) on "Digitalisation and Global Learning, 25.02.2020, 11:30-16:00, C3 Centre for International Development in Vienna

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