In the first, programmatic volume of the series Medienkonvergenz/Media Convergence leading scholars present this field of transdisciplinary research in which, among other disciplines, journalism (Russ-Mohl) and media law (Kirchhof), book studies (Füssel/Mittler), narratology (Ryan), computer linguistics (Ngomo) and media art (Curran/Dombois) cooperate ?in both the historical situation as well as in a future-based analysis of the present.