Final Theses / Qualification Works
Would you like to write your bachelor's or master's thesis with Prof. Dr. Martina Thiele or Dr. Helena Atteneder?
Prof. Dr. Martina Thiele supervises theses on the following topics:
- 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
If you would like to receive a specific topic suggestion, here are further possible topics and working titles:
- 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
Dr. Helena Atteneder supervises theses on the following topics:
- 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)