Dr. Stefan Aufenanger (*1950); Professor of Pedagogy and Media Education at the University of Hamburg/Germany. He studied pedagogy, psychology and sociology at the University of Mainz and worked at several universities in Germany and Switzerland. From 1995-1999 he was Executive Director of the ‘Institute for the Foundations of Education’ at the University of Hamburg, and from 1996-1998 Executive Director of the ‘Media Centre at the Faculty of Education’. His main research topics are electronic media and the family, television and children, children and advertising, multimedia in education, moral education, and qualitative research methods. At the University of Hamburg he is coordinator of several projects, f.e. „Information in Context - Creating the virtual University“, „Children’s Understanding of Television Violence in humorous Contexts“, and his workgroup is developing multimedia programs for Primary Schools and for Higher Education. He was member of the board of the ‘Association for Media Education and Communication Culture’ (GMK) (Bielefeld), and speaker of the division ‘Media Education’ of the ‘German Association of Educational Science’ (DGfE). He is co-editor of ‘Computer + Unterricht’ and member of the advisory board of ‘medien praktisch’, as well as consultant of several research projects. Furthermore he is a teacher in further education programs for Kindergarten, Elementary and Primary school teachers.

Publications (Selection, only books):

Education for Justice (Erziehung zur Gerechtigkeit) Munich 1981 (co-authors: Detlef Garz and Michael Zutavern)

Action and Meaning (Handlung und Sinnstruktur) Munich 1986 (co-author: Margrit Lenssen)

The Role of children in Television - Families watching TV (Kinder im Fernsehen - Familien beim Fernsehen) Munich 1993

Commercials and Children (Fernsehwerbung und Kinder) 2 Volumes., Opladen 1995 (co-authors: Michael Charlton, Klaus Neumann-Braun and Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem)

Concepts of media education to foster the understanding of commercials in the Kindergarten (Medienpädagogische Ansätze zur Vermittlung von Werbekompetenz im Kindergarten) Kiel 1999 (co-author: Norbert Neuss)

How children use the radio (Hörfunknutzung von Kinder) Berlin 2000 (co-authors: Ingrid Paus-Haase and Uwe Mattusch)

Yearbook of media education 1 (Jahrbuch der Medienpädagogik 1) Opladen 2001 (co-authors: Dieter Spanhel and Renate Schulz-Zander)

Alcohol - Television - Youth. Analysis of programs and projects for media education (Alkohol - Fernsehen - Jugendliche. Programmanalyse und medienpädagogische Projekte) Berlin 2002 (co-authors: Uwe Hasebrink, Mike Große-Loheide and Claudia Lampert)

Handbook media: starting up early with media education (Handbuch Medien: Medienerziehung früh beginnen) Bonn 2001 (co-author: Ulrike Six)