Research

 

Areas of Research

  • Journalism
  • Political communication
  • Exposure to mass media
  • Media effects
  • Public Opinion
  • Methods
  • Media structure and organization
  • Public relations

Current Research Projects (Selection)

  • 20 years Saxony after the fall of the Berlin wall. Analysis of survey data from 1991 to 2008 (with State Chancellory and tns-EMNID)
  • Media and Democracy II. Comparative analysis of news journalists (in cooperation with Harvard University, funded by Humboldt-Stiftung)
  • Profile of the readers of the ”tageszeitung” (taz)
  • DNN-Barometer. Regular surveys for the DRESDNER NEUESTEN NACHRICHTEN on local issues (DNN)
  • Methodische Beratung der SÄCHSISCHEN ZEITUNG bei Repräsentativbefragungen (SZ)
  • Strcuture and opinions of visitors of the Deutsche Hygiene Museum (DHMD)

Advised Dissertations

  • Ewa Musialowska: Political Communication in Germany and Poland (2008)
  • Listermann, Thomas: The Media’s Image of Biotechnology (2006)
  • Jandura, Olaf: Im Schatten der Volksparteien - FDP und Bündnis90/Grüne in den Bundestagswahlkämpfen 1998 & 2002 (2005)
  • Wolling, Jens: Politikverdrossenheit durch Massenmedien? (1999)