Topics & Supervisors

Master's thesis can only be written in English.

 

Person
Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Viorela Dan

Topics

  • AI and misinformation / disinformation
  • Strategic political communication (especially the effects of strategies employed in election campaigns, human-AI interaction)
  • Journalism (especially the effects of fact-checking, the effects of audiovisuals in journalism, human-AI interaction).

Methodological Approach

  • Experiment
Person
Dr. Mag. Oliver Leistert

Topics

  • Media theory
  • Theory of media technologies
  • Political economy of media
  • Critique of AI
  • Surveillance and social media
  • Surveilance and AI
  • Ecological impact of media technologies
  • Climate change & media technologies
  • Subjectivation processes and social media
  • Media and social movements
  • Media philosophy
  • Cybernetics
  • Critical data studies

Person
Assoz.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Petra Missomelius

Topics (in the following research fields)

  • Film and moving images
  • Critical diversity studies
  • Personal data sovereignty
  • Media, Knowledge, and Education
  • Evolving media practices in dynamic technological cultures

Methodological Approaches

  • Theoretical frameworks
  • Mixed-methods research
  • Ethnographic inquiry
  • Qualitative methods

Person
Dr. Franz Reiter, BA MA

Topics

  • Campaign communication (e.g., negative campaigning, dirty campaigning, disinformation campaigning)
  • Negativity in the media (e.g., social media, traditional media)
  • Alternative and mainstream media
  • Disinformation in the public discourse
  • Political participation
  • Methodological Approach
  • Quantitative methods (e.g., survey, experiment, quantitative content analysis)

Person
Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Uta Rußmann

Topics

  • Social media platforms (e.g., usage, ethical considerations)
  • Visual communication (especially digital/online)
  • Campaign communication
  • Strategic political communication
  • Political public relations
  • Strategic corporate communication
  • Deliberative communication

Methodological Approaches

  • Qualtitative methods 
  • Quantitative methods: quantitative content analysis & surveys
  • Mixed methods

Person
 Dr.in Natascha Zeitel-Bank

Topics

  • Gatekeeper diversity and new classifications of journalism
  • Strengthening European integration through cross-border networking at the political and civil society levels
  • Perception of European issues using Eurobarometer analyses (country analyses)
  • Public service media caught between their information mandate and platform economy
  • Democracy and media freedom – developments and current challenges
  • Strategic communication in European politics – a comparative analysis (at the municipal level with reference to European municipal councils)
  • The role of AI influencers in political communication
  • Request from ORF regarding “Chanson d'Eurovision” in terms of entertainment and political communication

Methodological Approaches

  • Qualtitative methods 
  • Mixed methods
  • Network analysis
  • Methods for measuring media and press freedom (secondary data analysis

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