- European Union Policy and Governance
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Social Media and Politics
- European and International Law Studies
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Human Rights and Immigration
- Media Studies and Communication
- Sociology and Education Studies
- Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Online and Blended Learning
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Sociology and Norbert Elias
- Gender Studies in Language
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- European history and politics
- Legal Language and Interpretation
- German Social Sciences and History
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Economic and Social Issues
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
ETH Zurich
2017-2023
University of Zurich
2013
Berlin Heart (Germany)
2009
Humboldt State University
2008
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2007
This article explores the contentiousness of European integration in process constitution-making. A public sphere perspective is introduced which relates legitimacy emerging EU polity to constraining and/or enabling context mass media communication. Starting from an outline constitutional claims-making quality newspapers France and Germany between 2001 2005, focuses on ratification as a period intense politicization affairs. In spite high salience, data indicate only few instances...
The E-Journal published by the German Communication Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, DGPuK e.V.) aims to present a full range of studies in communications and media on high level quality. It therefore seeks publish new research results field communication sciences, gives general overview international state create forum for interdisciplinary discussions.
The six-sentence argument (6SA) is an exercise to train critical thinking skills. Faced with a decision situation, students argue for their preferred course of action using logical structure exactly six sentences. Through guided peer review, engage critically other students’ arguments and receive detailed feedback on own arguments. This helps craft convincing reflect reasoning in format that can be applied real-world situations. A key strength the it administered online scalable large...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an innovative approach overcoming a common dilemma in designing negotiation simulations – that situating simulation real-life or fictitious context. This binary choice, which the authors call designer’s dilemma, has profound implications for types learning activities and outcomes can be integrated into overall experience. As way trade-offs inherent developed what they term hybrid simulations, blend elements fact fiction its contextual design...
The growing importance of the media, as suggested by concept “mediatization”, supposedly affects “playing field” on which political organisations are active. From a neo-institutionalist perspective, we claim that media can be perceived constituting one part institutional environment civil society (CSOs) and interest groups. We operationalize structural changes in either rules applicable to communication practices or resources dedicated communication. These reactions form within...