• Digitalization and Social Responsibility
• Media Theories and History
• Journalism and Professional Field Research
• Political Communication, Public Spheres, and Elections
• Politicians in Media, Representation, and Critique
• Stereotypes and Discrimination
• Gender Media Studies
• Media Generations and Media Usage
• Media Content and Audiences

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• Common Good Orientation and Media Ownership: a public-law internet?
• Endangered Freedom of Opinion? The discourse on Political Correctness and Cancel Culture
• Manifesto and Utopia. Public calls for a different use of media
• Media Class Society: Social Inequality in and through Media
• Doing Gender in Social Media: between Affirmation and Emancipation
• Politicians and Their Use of Media: Political Communication via Twitter
• Right-wing Extremism in Digitalized Public Spheres: Content and Effects of "Alternative" Media Offers

• Communication and Media Theories: critical theory, critical media or data economy, philosophy of technology, theories of space, theories of power, geomedia / geomedia studies,
• Media Culture and Media Change: Theorization of Mediatisation (especially critical-dialectical approaches), Media Convergence, Datafication, Algorithmization, Social Constructivist Approaches (especially SCOT), Actor-Network Theory, Science – Technology and Society Studies, Non-media-centric approaches to communication and media research, Digitalization and Networking Paradigms, Inter- and Transcultural Communication / Competence
• Media, Politics, and Society: Theories of Action, Media and Social Action, “Spatial Citizenship”, Surveillance Studies, Platform or Surveillance Capitalism, Data Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality in/through Media (Technologies), Media and Stereotypes, Surveillance, Data Protection, Privacy
• Media Genres: Press, Mobile-Connected-Digital Devices, Geomedia Technologies,
• Methods of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative Methods (qualitative interviewing techniques, digital ethnography, Grounded Theory, Situational Analysis, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis)