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Dr. Ralf Adelmann is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for
Media Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany. His research is
focusing on television, visual culture and media as popular culture.
Publications: (as co-editor) Visual Cultures Revisited. German and
American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s), Cologne 2007, (as
co-author) Datenbilder. Zur digitalen Bildpraxis in den
Naturwissenschaften, Bielefeld (forthcoming spring 2009).
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Kathleen Arendt is a research & teaching assistant and PhD-student at the Department for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. Her work focuses on the persuasive effects of entertaining fictional media on children as a special audience and its potential for health promotion activities (Entertainment-Education).
E-mail: kathleen.arendt@uni-erfurt.de
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Prof. Dr. Anja Besand, born 1971, is assistant professor at the Institute for Social Science, University of Education Ludwigsburg, Germany, since 2004. She got her PhD degree in 2003 from Justus-von-Liebig University of Gießen. Her areas of expertise are Theory of Education, Socialization and Civic Education, Aesthetics and Media, Cultural Studies and Politics. Her current research (postdoctoral thesis) is on „The Transfer of Generations in the Process of Civic Education in the Federal Republic of Germany”. Recent publications: Angst vor der Oberfläche. Zum Verhältnis ästhetischen und politischen Lernens im Zeitalter Neuer Medien, Schwalbach/Ts. 2004. Alles in Watte packen? Politische Bildung zwischen medialer Über- und medialer Unterforderung, in: Meister, Dorothee/Moser, Heinz/Sesink, Werner/Hipfl, Brigitte/Hug, Theo (Hrsg.): Medien - Pädagogik - Politik. Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 7, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 13-22. Digitale Filmwerkstatt - Zu den Potenzialen digitaler Medien im Sachunterricht der Grundschule in: Bundeszentrale zur politischen Bildung (Hrsg.): Demokratie verstehen lernen. 12 Bausteine zur politischen Bildung in der Grundschule, Bonn 2008, pp. 177-204.
besand@ph-ludwigsburg.de
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Dr. Christoph Bieber is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Giessen, Germany. He also is a member of the Center for Media and Interactivity (www.zmi.uni-giessen.de). His research is focusing on political communication, Internet and Politics (http://internetundpolitik.wordpress.com), and Media Democracy.
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Dr. Marc Calmbach
Dr. Marc Calmbach, study of media management at the Stuttgart Media University. Received his PhD from the Musicsociological Research Post at the University of Education / Ludwigsburg in 2007.
2001-2003 scientific assistant at the Institute of Media Studies and Content (Munich) and 2007 associate lecturer at the University of Education in Ludwigsburg. Focus of work: sociology of adolescents, cultural studies, basic research into socio-cultural and technological change (Sinus-Milieus®, everyday life esthetics). Joined Sinus Sociovision, Heidelberg, in 2008 (division "Social & Environment"). Born in Ruit auf den Fildern in 1974. Marc Calmbach currently lives in Stuttgart and Heidelberg.
E-mail: Marc.Calmbach@sociovision.de
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Dr. Benjamin Drechsel is a Key Researcher in a cooperation of the Center for Media and Interactivity at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres (LBI). He also is the LBI's Corresponding Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen. His research is focusing on European political iconography.
(Selected publications: 2005. Politik im Bild. Wie politische Bilder entstehen und wie digitale Bildarchive arbeiten. Frankfurt am Main: Campus; 2006; Was ist ein politisches Bild? Einige Überlegungen zur Entwicklung der Politikwissenschaft als Bildwissenschaft. In: Moderne. Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 2 (2006), 106-120.).
E-mail: Benjamin.Drechsel@kwi-nrw.de
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Isabel Flory
Isabel Flory is a student at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Subjects: History, Political Science, Sociology), also a freelancer with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Freiburg.
E-Mail: isabel.flory@gmx.de
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Nina Mahrt is academic employee at the Interdisciplinary Centre for PhD Studies of the University of Koblenz-Landau.
E-mail: antonina@uni-koblenz.de |
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Renate Müller, Dipl.-Soz., Dr. phil, professor of sociology of education and cultural sociology at the Institute for Educational Psychology and Sociology (Institut für Pädagogische Psychologie und Soziologie) of the University of Education Ludwigsburg and director of the Research Unit for Sociology of Music (Musiksoziologische Forschungsstelle). Main research areas: Cultural sociology of the youth, social use of music and media, development and application of computer-aided audio-visual research instruments.
E-Mail: renate.mueller@ph-ludwigsburg.de
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Diana Owen is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at Georgetown University. She received her doctorate in Political Science, with a minor in Statistics, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her major fields are American politics, political psychology/sociology, and methodology with a focus on empirical methods and statistical analysis. Her areas of specialization include media and politics, political communication, political socialization/civic education, elections and voting behavior, public opinion, political culture, and mass political behavior. She is the author, with Richard Davis, of New Media and American Politics (Oxford, 1998) and Media Messages in American Presidential Elections (Greenwood, 1991), and editor of The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters, and Activists, with Sarah Oates and Rachel Gibson (Routledge, 2006). She has published extensively on media and politics, including new media, preadult political learning, civic education, adult political orientations, and electoral politics. She has recently completed a study of youth voting in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Her work includes articles on campaign media, talk radio, political implications of the Internet, and media and transnational security.
E-mail: owend@georgetown.edu
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Dr. Flooh Perlot
Dr. Flooh Perlot is political scientist at the Department for Political Communication at the Danube-University Krems, Austria. His fields of interest include Internet and Democracy, Politics and mass media and political communication.
E-mail: flooh.perlot@donau-uni.ac.at
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Dr. Claudia Raabe
Dr. Claudia Raabe, born 1971 in Lima, Peru, studied Leisure Studies with a focus on Media Education as well as Culture and Aesthetics at the University of Göttingen. Then she worked at the University of Kassel as Academic Manager for the “European Master of Arts in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies” and wrote her PhD about Children’s Television and social orientation on the basis of television programme analysis. Her main areas of concentration are Media Education, Media Socialisation of children and youngsters as well as research on children’s television.
E-mail: raabe.claudia@web.de
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Peter Rauch
Peter Rauch is a graduate of MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. He studies the interplay between philosophy and videogames, and maintains a blog at http://undisciplinedtheory.blogspot.com. He recently co-authored an article in The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy, from Open Court Press. |
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Sebastian Reinkunz
Sebastian Reinkunz is a student at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Subjects: Political Science, English), has been working with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Freiburg as a freelancer since 2004.
E-mail: seb.reinkunz@o2online.de
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Stefanie Rhein, born 1972, is research assistant in sociology at the University of Education Ludwigsburg. In addition, she is scientific-pedagogical collaborator in research projects of the Institute for Media Research and Content (IMC) and a lecturer for sociology of music and music-teaching at the State University for Music and Plastic Arts in Stuttgart. In her dissertation “Lifestyle and dealing with the environment” (Lebensstil und Umgehen mit Umwelt) she is theoretically and empirically treating the cultural sociological concept of the aestheticization of everyday life.
E-mail: Stefanie.Rhein@vw.ph-ludwigsburg.de |
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Patrick Rössler (b. 1964), Ph.D. in communication (1996, University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim), is Chair of Communication Science/Empirical Research at the University of Erfurt, Germany. 2006-08 he served as President of the German Communication Association (DGPuK). He is representative of the International Communication Association (ICA) in Germany and editor of the book series “Internet Research” and “medien + gesundheit”. His main fields of scholarly interest are media effects research, new media developments and online communication, audience research, health communication, history of magazines.
E-mail: patrick.roessler@uni-erfurt.de
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Dr. Michael Wehner
Dr. Michael Wehner is director of the Freiburg branch of the “Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg”. Since 1991 Michael Wehner has been working with the Baden-Württemberg State Center for Political Education, Freiburg Branch. The Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg is a public, non-partisan institution – created in 1972 to educate all levels of society in national and international politics. |
