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Tobias Eberwein

Senior Scientist
Austrian Academy of Sciences/Alpen-Adria-Universität

Dr. Tobias Eberwein is a Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. His research focuses on media ethics and media accountability, media structures and media governance, journalism, media innovations, methods of empirical social science as well as comparative communication and media studies.

Biography

Since 2014: Senior Scientist and Research Group Leader at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Since 2014: Visiting lecturer at Hamburg Media School
Summer semester 2014: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for communication with a focus on structures of public communication at Dresden University of Technology
Winter semester 2013/2014: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for online/print journalism at Dortmund University of Technology
2013-2014: Director of the "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung"
Summer semester 2013: Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for international journalism at Dortmund University of Technology
2012-2017: Visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies at Cologne University of Applied Sciences
2011-2013: Acting academic director of the Erich Brost Institute for international journalism, Dortmund
2009-2013: Researcher at the Erich Brost Institute for international journalism, Dortmund
Coordination of the international research project "Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe” (MediaAcT)
2009-2010: Founding editor of the online review journal "r:k:m – Rezensionen:Kommunikation:Medien“
2006-2013: Scientific associate at the Institute of Journalism at University of Dortmund
Editor-in-chief of the online journal "Medien Monitor“ and the „Journalistik Journal“
2005-2008: Review editor of the learned journal "Publizistik. Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung“
2004-2006: Student assistant (SHK) at the Institute of Journalism at University of Dortmund University (Project "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung“)
2002-2003: Trainee (Volontär) at the "Westfalenpost“ in Hagen (Westfalen)
1998-2002: Journalistic occupations for various daily media – among others the "Deutsche Presse-Agentur“ (dpa), "die tageszeitung“ (taz), "Weser-Kurier“, "Oberhessische Presse“, "Hit Radio FFH“ and many more

Education

Dr. phil., Dortmund University of Technology, 2013

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Media ethics and media accountability, media structures and media governance, journalism, media innovations, methods of empirical social science, comparative communication and media research

Books

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