PD Dr. Claudia Riesmeyer
Program Coordinator Bachelor Communication Studies
Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung
Media socialization • Media literacy • Journalism research • Political communication • Qualitative methods
About the person
Professional experience
- 10/2024 – 03/2025 Acting W3 Professor, Institute for Media Studies, University of Tübingen
- 01/2021 – present Senior Academic Councilor for Life, Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research, LMU Munich
- 10/2021 – 03/2022 Acting W3 Professor of "Forms and Processes of Public Communication," Institute for Communication Studies, University of Münster
- 10/2016 – 12/2020 Academic Councilor for Life, Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research, LMU Munich
- 04/2007 – 09/2016 Research Assistant, Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research, LMU of Munich
- 03/2010 – present Lectureships at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
- 04/2007 – present Coordinator of the Bachelor's program in Communication Studies, Institute for Communication Studies and Media Studies, LMU Munich
- 04/2007 – present Management of the Examination Board for the Bachelor's program in Communication Studies, Institute for Communication Science and Media Studies, LMU Munich
- 04/2004 – 03/2007 Research Assistant, Center for Interdisciplinary Media Studies, Georg-August University of Göttingen
- 05/2000 – 03/2004 Assistant, Center for Interdisciplinary Media Studies, Georg-August University of Göttingen
Academic education
- 01/2021 Awarded Venia Legendi in Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, LMU Munich
- 07/2016 – 01/2021 Habilitation in Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, LMU Munich, topic: "Media literacy as a topic in communication studies"
- 01/2004 – 03/2006 Doctorate in Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Georg-August University of Göttingen, topic: "The relationship between journalism and public relations. Department and status of the information source as influencing factors. A case study using the example of the Thüringer Allgemeine."
- 10/1997 – 06/2002 Master's degree in Political Science, Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Georg-August University of Göttingen, topic: "The PDS – A party with no future?"
- 07/1997 High school diploma, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gymnasium Leinefelde