Communication / Information Media
Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos
Professor of Media Technology
Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS)
E-Learning, E-Research, Multimedia
Ihnestraße 24, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- New forms of teaching and learning / virtual learning environments
- E-learning / blended learning / MOOCs / E-learning concepts and strategies
- Distance learning
- Life-long learning
- Media education
- Learning management systems
- Audio and video / multimedia in education (school, university)
- Web 2.0 / social web
- E-research / E-humanities / E-publishing / open access
- Digital / multimedia archives
- Content management systems
- IT strategies
Dr. Endre Borbáth
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian
Areas of Expertise
- Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
- Programmatic structure
- Economic crises
- East/West differences
- Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
- Elections
- Democracy
- Conflict structures
Dr. Tim Conrad
Professor of Medical Bioinformatics
Zuse Institute Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Bioinformatics
- Proteomics
- Omics
- Data science
- Biological networks
- Big data
- Smart data
- Liquid biopsy
- Analysis of biological mass data
Dr. Martin Emmer
Professor of Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies
Media Use
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Media use
- Use of online media, social media, etc.
- Computer mediated communication (CMC - Internet/online media/web 2.0)
- Media shift
- Political online communication
- Political media effects
- Campaigns and election campaigns, particularly regarding the use of Internet/online media
- Survey research
- Quantitative media research
- Media and communication in Africa and developing countries
Dr. Nino Ferrin
Department of Education and Psychology
Primary Education
Teaching German at the Primary Level
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Media education; cultural and linguistic education
- Education research
- Educational anthropology
- Theory of rituals and performativity
Dr. Hanno Hochmuth
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Friedrich-Meineke-Institut:
Koserstraße 20, 14495 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Home)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- History of Berlin
- Public history
- Babylon Berlin (television series)
- History in film and television
- Gentrification
- History of the GDR
Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural history of the United States
- Alltagsgeschichte (history from below)
- History of New York
- Slavery in the United States of America
- African American history
- Gender history
- Political productions and rituals
- Rumors
Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder
Professor of Geology
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geological Sciences
Malteserstraße 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropocene
- Coral reefs
- Sustainability transformation
- Research communication
- Museology
- Geology
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Christoph Neuberger
Professor of Media and Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Digitalization and Participation
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Digital change in journalism and the public
- Social media
- Platforms
- Public radio
- Media quality
- Media regulation
- Knowledge and the public
Dr. Julia Reuschenbach
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany
Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Election and party research
- Political communication and political culture
- German contemporary history after 1945
- politics of history and culture of memory
- political science teaching at universities
Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
- Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
- Foreign reporting, War reporting
- Image of Islam
- Media and the Middle East conflict
- Media and migration / refugees
Dr. Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German literature of the Middle Ages
- Literary theory, especially narratology
- Religion in medieval literature
- Power and violence in medieval literature
- Medieval reception
- Computer games
Dr. Klaus Siebenhaar
Professor of Media Management
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for Arts and Media Management
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- Cultural policy
- Arts funding
- Creative industries
- Cultural media education
- Audience development and visitor-oriented cultural facilities
- Migrants as cultural audiences
- Cultural management and cultural policy in China
- Marketing
- Media
- Media management
- Media marketing
- Youth cultures as media cultures (especially Web 2.0 cultures)
- Development of the newspaper market and journalism
Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
- Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
- Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
- The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
- Religion in the media
Dr. Harald Wenzel
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- (Mass) media in the U.S.
- Sociology of the public
- Religion in the U.S.
- Sociology of disasters and disaster reporting
Dr. Petra Wieler (i. R.)
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Primary Education
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Children’s literature and the promotion of reading
- Reading and media socialization
- Media reception and narration: conversation and narrative of media reception in children at primary school age
- Classroom research
- Multilingualism
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch
Computer Scientist
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Institute of Computer Science
Computer Systems and Telematics
Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- The Internet and how it works
- Internet technologies (IP, IPv6, multicast, etc.)
- Computer security (cybersecurity); network security
- Internet measurements
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Information-centric networking (ICN/NDN)
- The Internet as a critical infrastructure