Prof. Dr. Christoph Neuberger
Division Digitalization and Participation
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Professor
Room 167
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Office hours during semester: Thursdays 12 noon to 1 pm and by appointment
Please contact Verena Baumann at Sekr-DigiPart@polsoz.fu-berlin.de to make an appointment.
Prof. Dr Christoph Neuberger lectures in journalism and communication studies at the Free University of Berlin. At the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, he is Director, Scientific Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the research group Digital News Dynamics.
After his graduation in journalism, dissertation and habilitation at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt he had a visiting professorship at the Universität Leipzig (2001/2002). From 2002 to 2011 he was Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on "Journalism" at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on "Media Change" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich from 2011 to 2019.
He is a regular member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
His research focuses on the digital transformation of media, public and journalism.
Memberships (selection):
Council of Excellence of Freie Universität Berlin
Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Advisory Board of the Science Communication Hub (acatech, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, etc.)
Advisory Board of the European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Advisory board of the joint project “Success factors of local e-participation”
Advisory Board of the project “Decoding Antisemitism”, Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA), Technical University of Berlin
Scientific Advisory Board of the Media Institute Mainz
Jury for the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for Social Science Essays
Selection Committee of the State Research Award, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg
Summer term 2025
28742: MA PuK/Medieninformatik Hauptseminar: Öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk in der digitalen Welt
28653: BA PuK/BA Medieninformatik/MA Pol. Komm./MA PuK: BA/MA-Colloquium Digitalisierung und Partizipation
Summer term 2024
28842: MA PuK/Medieninformatik Hauptseminar: Krieg und Konflikt in der digitalen Öffentlichkeit
28646: BA PuK/BA Medieninformatik/MA Pol. Komm./MA PuK: BA/MA-Colloquium Digitalisierung und Partizipation
Winter term 2023/24:
28551 BA PuK: Seminar: Digitaler Wandel des Mediensystems
28647 BA PuK/BA Medieninformatik/MA Pol. Komm./MA PuK: BA/MA-Colloquium Digitalisierung und Partizipation
Winter term 2022/23:
28872 MA PuK/ MA Pol. Komm.: Hauptseminar: Digitalisierung von Mediensystemen im internationalen Vergleich
28899 BA PuK/ BA Medieninformatik/MA Pol. Komm.: BA-/MA-Colloquium Digitalisierung und Partizipation
Summer term 2022:
28731 MA PuK/ Medieninformatik Methodenübung: Wikipedia und der Wandel der Wissensordnung
28911 BA PuK/ Medieninformatik/MA PuK: BA-/MA-Colloquium Digitalisierung und Partizipation.
Winter term 2021/22:
28552 BA PuK Seminar: Digitale Transformation des Mediensystems
29731 MA Medieninformatik/ PuK Hauptseminar: Wikipedia und der digitale Wandel der Wissensordnung
28648 BA-/MA-Colloquium: Digitalisierung und Partizipation
Summer term 2021:
28553 BA PuK: Seminar: Digitale Transformation. Das Mediensystem im Wandel.
28844a MA PollKomm/PuK: Hauptseminar: Richtig diskutieren im Netz: Online-Deliberation und -Moderation.
Winter term 2020/21:
Research term
Summer term 2020:
28555 BA PuK: Seminar: Die Plattform-Revolution.
28823a MA PolKomm/PuK: Hauptseminar: Publizistische Qualität im Internet – am Beispiel des Grimme Online Award (part 2)
Winter term 2019/20:
28632 BA PuK: Seminar: Journalismus in der Krise
28823 MA PolKomm/PuK: Hauptseminar: Publizistische Qualität im Internet – am Beispiel des Grimme Online Award (part 1)
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