Welcome to the Department of Communication (IfK) at the University of Münster.

Following the successful completion of the first project phase in 2022, the DFG-funded research project ‘When is a Like a Like?’ will be continued since September 2024 in the Digital Media & Computational Methods department.

The final workshop of the DFG-funded research project ‘Communicative means for accessible survey research’ took place on 1 October. Volker Gehrau, Benjamin Bigl and Ketevan Gognelashvili presented key findings from the DFG project and recommendations for action. The aim of the project was to find out how accessible means of communication can improve participation in standardised online surveys.

Henrieke Kotthoff M.A. was awarded this year's forsa / Paul Lazarsfeld scholarship last Friday, 20 September 2024 at the DGPuK specialist group conference ‘Methoden & DigiKomm 2024'. The award recognised the outstanding methodological approach of her master's thesis on ‘Automated extraction and classification of data visualisations in COVID-19 and climate reports’.

From September 24 to 27, the tenth European Communication Conference (ECC) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) will take place. Under the theme "Communication & social (dis)order", researchers from European universities will discuss the (dys)functionality of current communication and its societal implications. Numerous scholars from the Departmant of Communication at the University of Münster will also be present at this year's conference in Slovenia.

Lea von den Driesch, research associate at the IfK, took office this week together with Maike Körner from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt as a member of the spokesperson team of the "Mittelbaunetzwerk Journalismusforschung" (mijofo). For over a decade, mijofo has served as an important platform for professional exchange on journalistic practice, journalism research and methodological innovations in both fields. At the current annual conference in Berlin, von den Driesch and Körner are now officially acting as members of the speaker team for the first time.