Professor Dr. Thorsten Quandt

Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Schwerpunkt: Onlinekommunikation (Prof. Quandt)
Professor Dr. Thorsten Quandt

Bispinghof 9-14, room IfK, E 226
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-23002
F: +49 251 83-21310

Consultation Hours

Nach Vereinbarung (per eMail).

Academic Profile:
 

  • Research Foci

    • Online communication and interactive media
    • Media Innovations
    • Digital Gaming
    • Online Journalism

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Habilitation in Communication Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
    Ph.D. in Communication Science. Dissertation: "Journalisten im Netz" (Journalists and the internet) at the TU Ilmenau
    Journalism, psychology, film/television and cultural studies in Bochum and Liverpool
    Study of Media and Cultural Studies at the John Moores University in Liverpool, England

    Positions

    Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
    Professor for online communication at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Professor at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Communication Studies
    Junior Professor at the FU Berlin
    Research Assistant at the TU Ilmenau and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
    Visiting Scholar at the School of Journalism, Indiana University in Bloomington, USA
    Working as a radio journalist

    Honors

    ERC Advanced Grant – European Research Council (ERC)
    Fellow – International Communication Association (ICA)
    Top 100 Altmetric Ranking 2015 (Platz 24 der weltweit am häufigsten diskutierten Wissenschaftsartikel für „Sexist games= sexist gamers? “) – Altmetric
    Top 3 Faculty Paper Award – Interest Group “Game Studies”, International Communication Association (Seattle)
    Top 2 Faculty Paper Award für die Tagungseinreichung "Social Relations and Cyberbullying: The Influence of Individual and Structural Attributes on Victimization and Perpetration via the Internet” – ICA Conference Boston 2011, “Communication and Technology Division”
    ERC Starting Grant – European Research Council (ERC)
    Top Paper Award für die Tagungseinreichung „(No) News on the World Wide Web? A comparative content analysis of journalistic news sites in four European countries“ (2006) – Internationale Konferenz "Thinking Journalism across National Boundaries", ausgerichtet durch SPBJOR, ICA & IAMCR, Porto Alegre, Brasilien
    Dissertations-Förderpreis – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
    Top Paper Award – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)

    External Functions

    Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication
    Board Member of the journal "Digital Journalism"
    Head of the evaluation board for Finnish Communication Studies, Academy of Finland
    Member of the Executive Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
    Chair of the Temporary Working Group "Digital Games Research" of ECREA
    Board member of the journal "Communication Theory"
    Council in the 'Scientific Advisory Board' of the Finnish Helsingin Sanomat Foundation
    Secretary of the "Journalism Studies Division" of the International Communication Association (ICA)
    Speaker of the 'journalism and journalism research' section of DGPuK
    Deputy Speaker of the 'journalism and journalism research' section of DGPuK
    Section Editor for the journal 'Journalism Studies' ('Theory Review' section, along with Mark Deuze and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen)