Chair and Professorships of Communication Studies

Chair of Communication Studies (Prof. Dr. Liane Rothenberger)

  • Journalism Studies
  • Migration and Media
  • Risk and Crisis Communication
  • International and Intercultural Communication
  • Values and Norms, (In)Equality, Participation
     

Professorship of Empirical Communicator Research (Prof. Dr. Markus Behmer)

  • Studies on Professional Fields, particularly in the areas of journalism, ethics in the media professions, media freedom, and the quality of media content
  • Current media development and their historical origins
  • International and Comparative Media Studies, Development Communication

Professorship of Communication Science, particularly Reception and Media Effects Studies (Prof. Dr. Carsten Wünsch)

  • Reception Studies, particularly reception experience
  • Media Effects Studies, particularly latent cognitive effects, effects of fictional media content
  • Empirical Methods of Communication Science, particularly methods of online studies, measurement methods used in reception studies, social science experiments, automated content analysis