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Digital Communication and Sustainability
Communication Studies
Digital Communication
and Sustainability

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Prof Dr Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw

Portraitbild von Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw

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Professor

Communication Studies, Digital Communication and Sustainability

Address

University of Hamburg
Social Sciences
Journalism and Mass Communication
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg

Office

Room: 2029

Office hours

The office hours (via Zoom) take place on wednesdays between 16:00 and 17:00. Please get in contact and register in advance.

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-4691

Portrait

Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw has been appointed to the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science in August 2016. Her research focuses on digital communication and its implications for the political public sphere, with a particular interest in sustainability as an issue.

 The research interests of Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw are

  • content, reception and effects of digital political communication (particularly via social networks and/or smartphones)
  • debates about sustainable (climate friendly) lifestyles in social networks
  • transformations of the political public sphere due to digitalization: individualization, transnationalization and entertainization
  • dysfunctionality of digital public spheres: Mis- and desinformation, information and opinion bubbles
  • transnational communikation and comparative research on media systems and cultures
  • quantitative and qualitative methods, with a focus on digital methods

Curriculum Vitae

 TimelineEducation or Position
10/2018-12/2021

Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Since 10/2017

Academic Director: Erasmus Mundus Master "Journalism, Media and Globalisation"
  Since 08/2016   

Professor for Communication Studies, esp. Digital Communication and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg
02/2015-07/2016

Juniorprofessor (with tenure track) for Political Communication, Institute for Journalism and Media Research, Universität Zürich
03/2013-01/2015

Leadership of the media side project AUTNES (Austrian National Election Study), together with Klaus Schönbach, Universität Wien
09/2010-01/2015

Senior Research Assistent (Post-Doc), Department of Communication, Chair Klaus Schönbach, Universität Wien
10/2008-08/2010

Senior Research Assistant (Post-Doc)
09/2003-09/2000

Research Assistant (Prae-Doc)
Researchproject Transnationalisation of the public sphere by the example of the EU (Project lead: Andreas Hepp, Hartmut Wessler, Bernhard Peters) at the Collaborative research centre 597 Staatlichkeit im Wandel,
Universität Bremen/Jacobs University Bremen  
04/2002-09/2003

Junior Researcher at Carat Expert (Research department of the media agency Carat, Munich)
07/2000-07/2001

Research assistant at SevenOne Media (Program research for ProSieben, Sat.1, Kabel 1 and tm3)

Academic Positions and Functions

Professor for Communication Studies, esp. Digital Communication and Sustainability
Academic Director: Erasmus Mundus Master "Journalism, Media and Globalisation"

Publications