Faculty of Social Sciences
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Department of Communication
- Univ.-Prof. Hajo Boomgaarden, PhD
Research focus:
Hajo Boomgaarden’s research focusses on various aspects of political communication, such as election campaigning, the role of social media for political participation, misinformation and knowledge resistance, media and its interaction with migration within and beyond Europe, or on wider issues of how digitalisation (re)shapes democracy. Methodologically there is a focus on various computational methods, ranging from text analysis to networks or simulation models. Yet all empirical types of projects are welcome. Another strand of research is interested in modality effects, looking at digital reading practices and their consequences as well as virtual reality.
More information can be found at:
www.hajoboomgaarden.com
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Dienlin
Research Focus:
Media psychology, media effects, social media use, privacy, well-being, open science
More information can be found at:
www.tobiasdienlin.com
- Univ.-Prof. Folker Hanusch, PhD
Research Focus:
Prof Hanusch’s research deals with all areas of journalism studies. Specific foci lie in comparative journalism studies, journalistic culture, journalistic boundary work, audience expecations of journalism, lifestyle journalism, Indigenous journalism.
More information can be found at:
https://journalismstudies.univie.ac.at/team/folker-hanusch/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler
Research Focus:
Members of the Political Communication Research Group study the interaction between political elites, media, and citizens. We are specifically interested in understanding how and under which conditions political elites communicate with citizens, what role media organizations and journalists play in the political communication process, and how citizens process elite and journalistic communication. We use a variety of qualitative and quantitative social research methods to develop and test theories that help understand the quality of political communication in democracies today. At the moment, we are particularly interested in the role of disinformation and emotion, as well as identity and group behaviour in digital democracies.
More information can be found at:
https://polcom.univie.ac.at
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Matthes
Research Focus:
Digital media;
social media;
youth and digital media use;
children and digital media use; media and terrorism;
media effects;
media psychology;
political communication
More information can be found at:
https://advertisingresearch.univie.ac.at/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Wilhelm
Research focus:
Main research focus:
• Digital communication
• Media use and effects, especially digital games and gender aspects
• Digital Visibility
• Children, Adolescents and Media
More information can be found at:
https://publizistik.univie.ac.at/wilhelm-claudia/
Department of Demography
- Ass. Prof. Erich Striessnig
Research Focus:
Population-environment interaction
More information can be found at
https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=112123
Department of Development Studies
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Muschik
Research Focus
• history of development
• global history
• international organizations
• decolonization
• humanitarianism
• peacekeeping
• structural adjustment
More information can be found at
https://ie.univie.ac.at/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/eva-maria-muschik/
Department of Government
- Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sylvia Kritzinger
Research Focus:
In general: Comparative Politics
In particular: Political Competition, Political Behaviour, Electoral Democracy and Elections, Governments and Coalitions.
More information can be found at:
http://www.univie.ac.at/staatswissenschaft/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Carolina Plescia
Research Focus:
Electoral politics, voting behaviour, democratic representation, digital democracy.
More information can be found at
https://carolinaplescia.wordpress.com
- Univ.-Prof. Markus Wagner PhD
More information can be found at:
www.wagnermarkus.net
- Ass.-Prof. Christopher Wratil
Research Focus:
European and EU politics, democratic representation, public opinion and political behavior
More information can be found at:
www.wratil.eu
Department of Science and Technology Studies
- Univ.-Prof. Sarah Davies, BSc MSc PhD
Research Focus:
The department largely hosts qualitative, constructivist research within Science and Technology Studies, including:
• Critical studies of science communication, public engagement with science (including activism and protest), and amateur science;
• Public interactions with digitised science and technology, including science on social media, subversion and negotiation of 'datafication', and data subjectivities;
• The contemporary conditions of academic work and knowledge production;
• Digitisation within scientific knowledge production, including studies of data deluges, the co-production of digital technologies and academic work, and mundane use of digital tools.
More information can be found at:
https://sts.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/sarah-davies/
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Univ.-Prof. Manuela Ciotti, PhD
Research Focus:
Art World
Politics of Materiality
Identity Politics
Modernity
Political Agency and postcolony
Gender and Politics
Dalit communities
Social Media
Digital Anthropology
Politics of Representation
India and South Asia
Art World
Politics of Materiality
Identity Politics
Modernity
Political Agency and postcolony
Gender and Politics
Dalit communities
Social Media
Digital Anthropology
Politics of Representation
India and South Asia
More information can be found at:
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/ciotti-manuela/
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Schweitzer
Research Focus:
Anthropology of the Built Environment
Mobilities
Remote Areas
Climate Change
Indigenous Movements
Cultures and Identities
History of Anthropology
Arctic and Subarctic
former Soviet Union
I will only supervise candidates whose research interests are close to mine.
More information can be found at:
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sanderien Verstappen
Research Focus
Anthropology of mobility and belonging; Urban studies; Visual and multimodal anthropology
More information can be found at:
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/verstappen-sanderien/
Department of Sociology
- Ass.-Prof. Dr. Emma Dowling
Research Focus:
social change;
social movements;
sociology of work;
care work, care regimes and social reproduction;
financialisation, feminist political economy.
More information can be found at
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/emma.dowling/
- Univ. Prof. Yuri Kazepov
Research Focus:
My research portfolio covers several urban and environmental relevant themes adding a territorial dimension to the analysis of citizenship, environmental issues, youth transitions, migration, poverty, … I address mainly issues at the intersection between multilevel governance arrangements and citizenship. The research projects I have been involved in from the very beginning of my career have always been characterized by two aspects: 1) interdisciplinarity; 2) comparativeness. Whenever possible I tried to investigate poverty, social policies, environmental issues, inequality and segregation, social assistance, activation policies, scalar configurations and multilevel governance, adopting a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods embedded in the understanding of the working of institutional settings. Funding comes predominantly through competitive procedures at international (European) level.
More information can be found at:
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/kazepov
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