Abstract
The discussion about the relationship between information technology education and media education is sometimes characterised more by a disciplinary than an interdisciplinary understanding. On the side of computer science, there is a fear that its contents will be watered down by 'narrow filmmakers'; on the side of media education, it is emphasised that a reduction of media competence to user skills or detailed technical knowledge falls short. In terms of professional policy, it is certainly appropriate to concentrate on the technical or informatic or even the pedagogical, but the media world itself requires interdisciplinary approaches. In order not to run the risk of justifying the educational value of dealing with information and communication technologies only on a plausibility level, a theory-based discussion is first necessary. On this basis, it is then possible to talk in a well-founded way about mergers or demarcations of and between information technology education and media education. This article develops such a theoretical basis and relates it to possible educational values.
