PD Dr Stefan Meier

Stefan Meier, born in 1970, is Professorial Qualified Docent of Media Studies (focus on photography and online media).

The focuses of Stefan Meier’s research work and key topics include: media semiotics, visual communication research, media theories, internet research, digital and convergence culture, multimodal discourse analysis, methodologies of qualitative media research.

He has written three books to “Online Discourse Analysis”, “Online Communication” and “Visual Media Styles"; see list of publications as a PDF file). He has also published numerous articles in scientific publications to photography theory, online journalism, popular media culture

Stefan Meier studied German, history and politics in Göttingen and Oldenburg. Before his academic works, he has completed a trainee program in online-journalism and webdesign at the European Center of Media Competence (ecmc). 2002 to 2012, he was lecture for online media and visual communication at the University of Technology Chemnitz, 2013-2014, he represented the professorship of Visual Communication. Stefan Meier received his Ph.D. (2007) for his work on online discourse analysis and 2013 his “Habilitation” for his work on in media studies at the University of Tübingen.

Projects

• 2011 associated work to successfully apply for the Graduated School ' Crossworlds: Socially Real and Virtual Worlds ' (http://crossworlds.info/mitglieder/initiatoren/)
• 2009 successfully apply for the support by the DFG (award no: FR 1328/5-1) in corporation with Claudia Fraas for developing a set of tools to study textual and visual discursive patterns and practices on- and offline. He was team leader in the supported period 2009-2011. (http://www.medkom.tu-chemnitz.de/mk/online-diskurse/home.php)

Conference hosting

• International and interdisciplinary conference on transmedia discourse in Chemnitz in cooperation with Splash!, European greatest HipHop and Reggae-Festival, the international conference ‘HipHop meets Academia’ in Chemnitz (https://www.medkom.tu-chemnitz.de/hiphop/)

Professional Affiliations

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), sections Visual Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Sociology of Media Communication
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik e.V. (DGS), section leader for media semotics
• Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft (GIB), treasurer of the society

• Meier, Stefan (2014). Visuelle Stile. Eine sozialsemiotische Konzeptualisierung visueller Medienkultur und konvergenter Design-Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript.
   
• Fraas, Claudia / Meier, Stefan / Pentzold, Christian (Hrsg.) (2013). Online-Diskurse. Theorien und Methoden transmedialer Online-Diskursforschung. (DGOF). Halem: Köln.
   
• Meier, Stefan / Pentzold, Christian (2013). Multimodal Online Communication: Through the Lens of Practice Theory. http://www.medkom.tu-chemnitz.de/mk/online-diskurse/pdf/Multimodal%20Online%20communication_Meier_Pentzold.pdf
   
• Fraas, Claudia / Meier, Stefan / Pentzold, Christian (2012). Online-Kommunikation: Grundlagen, Praxisfelder und Methoden. München: Oldenbourg.
   
• Meier, Stefan (2012). Die Simulation von Fotografie. Konzeptuelle Überlegungen zum Zusammenhang von Materialität und digitaler Bildlichkeit. In Finke, Marcel / Halawa, Mark A. (Hrsg.): Materialität und Bildlichkeit.Visuelle Artefakte zwischen Aisthesis und Semiosis (S. 126-142).Berlin: Kadmos.
   
• Meier, Stefan (2010). ‚Wie die Helden laufen lernen‘ – Stil und Transkription in aktuellen Comics und Comic-Verfilmungen. In Stöckl, Hartmut (Hrsg.): Mediale Transkodierungen – Metamorphosen zwischen Sprache, Bild und Ton, Wissenschaft und Kunst 8 (S.189-208). Heidelberg: Winter.
   
• Meier, Stefan (2008). (Bild-)Diskurs im Netz. Konzept und Methode für eine semiotische Diskursanalyse im World Wide Web. Köln: Halem.
   
• Bock, Karin / Meier, Stefan / Süß, Gunter (Hrsg.) (2007). HipHop meets Academia - Globale Spuren eines lokalen Kulturphänomens. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Complete list of publications: PDF-file.