Department of Communication
Room: E 224
D-48143 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-23004
sigrid.kannengiesser@uni-muenster.de
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The team of the research area "Media Sociology and Sustainability" deals with sustainability in the sense of socio-ecological-economic justice from a media sociological perspective. The focus is on the socio-ecological-economic consequences of digitization, datafication and automated communication with artificial intelligence, as well as on sustainability (in the sense of a just) design of digital media technologies and infrastructures of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, the question of how digital media and technologies of automated communication can be used to empower discriminated and marginalized actors is explored. Moreover, collectives and social movements are analyzed, in which actors network in order to shape digitalization, datafication and automated communication and other social processes in a just way. Overall, the question of how media (technologies) can be used for a good life is thematized.
Prof. Dr. habil. Sigrid Kannengießer is professor of Communication Studies with a focus on Media Sociology. Previously, she was professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on Media Society at the University of Bremen. She rejected appointments as a professor to the University of Paderborn and the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen.
She was scientific manager of the artec Sustainability Research Center at the University of Bremen and research associate at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen, at the Center for Transnational Studies at the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen, and at the Department of Language, Literature and Media at the University of Hamburg.
Her second book (Habilitationsschrift) "Digital Media and Sustainability. Media Practices for a Good Life“ was funded as an „Independent Postdoc Project" by the Central Research Development Fund of the University of Bremen and her PhD project on "Translocal Empowerment Communication. Media. Globalization. Women's Organizations" by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The dissertation was awarded the Bremen Study Prize.
She studied Film and Television Studies and Political Science at the Ruhr University in Bochum and Media Culture and Political Science at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her master's degree (Magistra Artium).
Sigrid Kannengießer was chair of the section Sociology of Media Communication of the German Association of Communication Studies (DGPuK) and is co-editor of the book series Media - Culture - Communication (Springer VS) and Critical Studies in Media and Communication (transcript).