Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Florian Arendt
Associate Professor of Health Communication
✆ +43-1-4277-49323
✉ florian.arendt@univie.ac.at
➥ Health communication
Mag. Dr. Alice Binder, Bakk.
Senior Scientist
Currently on maternal leave
✆ +43-1-4277-49398
✉ alice.binder@univie.ac.at
➥ Persuasive Communication
➥ Health Communication
➥ Effects of food placements on children
Univ.-Prof. Hajo Boomgaarden, PhD
Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences
✆ +43-1-4277-49905
✉ hajo.boomgaarden@univie.ac.at
➥ Analysis of (news) media coverage and its effects on political cognitions, attitudes and behavior
➥ Methodological advances of content analysis techniques
➥ Media, migration and right-wing populist parties
➥ European integration
Assoc.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Tobias Dienlin
Professorship Interactive Communication
✆ +43-1-4277-49314
✉ tobias.dienlin@univie.ac.at
➥ Privacy, personality, & self-disclosure
➥ Social media, communication, & well-being
➥ Open science
Dr. Jakob-Moritz Eberl, BA MA
Senior Scientist
✆ +43-1-4277-49917
✉ jakob-moritz.eberl@univie.ac.at
➥ Media bias
➥ Manual/automated media analysis
➥ Media effects on political behavior and attitudes
➥ Media and migration
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Einwiller
Department Chair • Professor of Public Relations Research
✆ +43-1-4277-49319
✉ sabine.einwiller@univie.ac.at
➥ Public relations
➥ Strategic communication
➥ Effects of negative publicity and crisis communication
➥ Complaint management
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerit Götzenbrucker, Privatdoz.
Associate Professor
✆ +43-1-4277-49381
✉ gerit.goetzenbrucker@univie.ac.at
➥ Media and consequences of new technology
➥ Critical technology and media analysis
➥ Social network analysis
➥ Digital game studies
Univ.-Prof. Folker Hanusch, BA (Hons) PhD
Vice-Director of Studies • Professor of Journalism
✆ +43-1-4277-48355
✉ folker.hanusch@univie.ac.at
➥ Comparative journalism studies
➥ Journalism culture
➥ Lifestyle journalism
➥ Indigenous journalism
Mag. Dr. Petra Herczeg, Privatdoz.
Director of Studies • Senior Lecturer
Bachelor / Master Publizistik- und KOWI (SPL 22)
✆ +43-1-4277-49321
✉ petra.herczeg@univie.ac.at
➥ Children & media
➥ Intercultural communication
➥ Language and knowledge
➥ Journalism
Dr. Melanie Hirsch, MSc BA BA
Senior Scientist
✆ +43-1-4277-49333
✉ melanie.hirsch@univie.ac.at
➥ Political communication
➥ Social media
➥ Media psychology
➥ Empirical methods
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Kathrin Karsay
Tenure Track Professorship for Entertainment Research
✆ +43-1-4277-49376
✉ kathrin.karsay@univie.ac.at
➥ Media effects, especially in entertainment media
➥ Digital well-being in times of permanent availability
➥ Media portrayals and effects in the context of stigma, stereotypes, and body image
➥ Use and effects of mobile media and social media
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sophie Lecheler
Professor of Communication
Special Focus: Political Communication
✆ +43-1-4277-49375
✉ sophie.lecheler@univie.ac.at
➥ Digital democracy and media
➥ Political journalism
➥ Emotions in political communication
➥ Political framing & framing effects
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jörg Matthes
Department Vice-Chair • Professor of Communication
✆ +43-1-4277-49307
✉ joerg.matthes@univie.ac.at
➥ Advertising
➥ Political communication
➥ Media reception & effects
➥ Methods
Dr. Mira Mayrhofer, Bakk. BSc MSc
Senior Lecturer
✆ +43-1-4277-48327
✉ mira.mayrhofer@univie.ac.at
➥ Health communication
➥ Advertising research (Focus: Food & alcohol)
➥ Product placements in TV and social media
➥ Quantitative methods
Dr. Christopher Ruppel, M.A.
Senior Lecturer
✆ +43-1-4277-48322
✉ christopher.ruppel@univie.ac.at
➥ Stakeholder relationships
➥ Crisis communication
➥ Internal communication
➥ Native advertising
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharine Sarikakis
Professor of Communication
✆ +43-1-4277-49394
✉ katharine.sarikakis@univie.ac.at
➥ Media governance
➥ European integration, media and communicative spaces
➥ Media technologies, human rights and social change
➥ Gender and media policy
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Desirée Schmuck, BSc
Professor of Media Change and Media Innovation
Vice-Director of Studies
Master Program Communication Science (SPL 22)
✆ +43-1-4277-49311
✉ desiree.schmuck@univie.ac.at
➥ Digital media use of children and adolescents
➥ Political engagement in digital environments
➥ Media change and social relations
➥ Media innovation and autonomy
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Annie Waldherr
Department Vice-Chair • Professor of Computational Communication Science
✆ +43-1-4277-49352
✉ annie.waldherr@univie.ac.at
➥ Public sphere
➥ Political online communication
➥ Computational social science
Assoz. Prof. Dr. Claudia Wilhelm, M.A.
Associate Professor of Media and Intersectionality
Vice-Director of Studies • Social Sciences Directorate of Doctoral Studies
✆ +43-1-4277-49331
✉ claudia.wilhelm@univie.ac.at
➥ Digital communication
➥ Media use and effects, especially digital games and gender aspects
➥ Children and youth media research
MMag. DDr. Julia Wippersberg, Privatdoz.
Vice-Studienpäses of the University of Vienna
Senior Lecturer
✆ +43-1-4277-49341
✉ julia.wippersberg@univie.ac.at
➥ Quality and evaluation of contract research (PR, Advertising, Public Affairs)
➥ Media literacy
➥ TV research (local TV, mobile and interactive TV)
