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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.
E-mail: 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,
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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. |
