Topics & contact persons
For interviews, media contributions, lectures, training courses and workshops, please contact the staff of our institute.
We look forward to your enquiry!

Ass.-Prof.in Dr.in Viorela Dan
- Digital communication (incl. deepfakes)
- Journalism (incl. fact-checking)
- Political communication
- Strategic communication (incl. misinformation)
- Visual communication
- Health communication

Prof. Dr phil. Theo Hug
- Topics at the interface of media, education and knowledge

Andreas M. Kraxberge, BA MA
- Political humour and satire
- Political Communication
- State crisis communication
- Algorithmically influenced communication
- Affective media reception
- Visual communication

Dr Mag. Oliver Leistert
Socio-cultural and socio-technical aspects of media and communication

Assoc.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Petra Missomelius
- Socio-cultural aspects of media (practices and interfaces, media theory)
- Media dynamics and social change (emerging media, wearables and governmentality)
- Media education (education under the sign of digitality, knowledge media, knowledge of the media)
- Moving image

Dr Franz Reiter, BA MA
- Dirty Campaigning
- Negative Campaigning
- Political communication
- Election campaigns
- (Social) media and alternative media

Univ.-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Uta Rußmann
- Digital Communication / Social Media
- Campaigns / Election campaigns
- Media and elections
- Political Communication / Democracy
- Public Relations & Strategic Communication
- Visual communication

DrNatascha Zeitel-Bank
- Journalism and media policy in the European Union
- Media and political communication
- Media systems in international comparison
- Platform economy and digital communication
- Public Relations & Strategic Communication