The main focus on research of the Chair of Journalism is the International Journalism Research. It includes the following areas of research:

• Journalism cultures and media systems in international comparison

◦       European and non-European media phenomena

◦       International reporting, foreign correspondence and foreign correspondents (also: virtual foreign correspondence)

◦       Glocalizing media

◦       trans- and inter-cultural and multi-lingual media

◦       Migrants media and their media-economic aspect

• Science communication / risk communication / communication science in climate research

◦      verbal and visual communication about climate change, global warming

◦      reporting from UN Climate Change Conference (COP) and the IPCC AR

• Data journalism

◦       Processing and visualization of Big Data

◦      mobile communications, mobile devices

• International protest communication movements of civilian communications via conventional media and social media

◦       Theory approach to protest Communication

• Europe communication

◦       EU-journalism

◦       EU PR

◦       Paradigm of European Public Sphere(s)

• Media in the Arab world, MENA region, in the Middle East (including Iran)

◦       Conflict, crisis or war coverage

◦       Peace Journalism, Media and puice-building, peacekeeping

◦       Censorship and self-censorship

◦       Media Transformation

◦       Media literacy, media literacy

• Media in South East Asia

◦       Media in the ASEAN region (focus: Myanmar)

◦       Press Freedom

◦       Media Transformation

• Media in Latin America

◦       Communication and development

• Media development cooperation (CET) and Development Journalism

• Public / Media Diplomacy (as a foreign policy government PR tool)

◦       communication controlling

Current research project:

Media Climate (since 2008): This, by the Universities of Oslo and Bergen / Norway and Tampere / Finland led and financially centrally-funded long-term project with around 30 international scientific partner institutions deals with  communication scientific climate research and examines, inter alia, quantitatively and qualitatively, comparatively and transnationally, how media report on five continents about the so-called climate change or global warming (e. g. on the basis of UN climate summits and IPCC AR). The financial resources are centrally managed in Norway and Finland. 

 http://www.mediaclimate.net

http://www.mediaclimate.net

ABOUT

Future Media CoLab brings together academics and practitioners working at the crossroads of digital media, sciences and technologies. Our mission is to explore the rapidly evolving technologies and platforms that are transforming human communication, promoting transdisciplinary research that connects artistic, scientific, and technological approaches for creating new possibilities for contemporary and future media.

At the Future Media CoLab we examine and discuss the means by which emergent media technologies impact people, cultures, politics, economics, and the environment through collaborative research projects. With a strong focus on immersive media (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality) and its related technologies, our collaboratory is a center without walls, serving as a prototyping studio, a research group, and an active participant in the evolving relationship between humans and emergent media.

PEOPLE

Director

António Baía Reis, Ph.D.

Integrated Members

Oliver Hahn, Ph.D.

Lukas Kick, Ph.D. Candidate

Thomas Eckerl, Ph.D. Candidate

SOCIAL MEDIA

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