The network "Communication-Scientific Memory Research" helped to establish a communication-scientific perspective of memory and memory research in interdisciplinary discourse and to strengthen the subject of memory in the subject.
The aim of the network was to process and further develop memory and memory research in communication studies in terms of their fundamentals, their fields of work and their perspectives.
To this end, the network supported cross-location, topic-related cooperation. In the period from 2018 to 2021, the examination of cultural memory and social remembering, which took place in different areas of communication research and media analysis, was viewed, compared and documented as elements of communication science research on memory and remembrance. The interdisciplinary exchange with other social and cultural science disciplines from an international perspective was an important part of the network.
The scientific network was funded by the German Research Foundation (PE 2436 / 1-1). It was coordinated by Christian Pentzold, University of Leipzig, and Christine Lohmeier, University of Salzburg. More about the network here!
Members of the network: PD Dr. Thomas Birkner, Academic Senior Counselor at the Institute for Communication Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Prof. Dr. Elke Grittmann is responsible for media and society at the Magdeburg-Stendhal University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Dr. Anne Kaun is Associate Professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Prof. Dr. Christine Lohmeier is Professor of Communication Science at the University of Salzburg. Dr. Judith Lohner is a consultant in the University Strategy Department, Excellence Strategy Department, University of Hamburg. Dr. Manuel Menke works as an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Anke Offerhaus is a university lecturer at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig. Dr. Dimitri Prandner works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Christina Sanko is a research assistant at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. PD Dr. Andreas M. Scheu is a research assistant at the Institute for Communication Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger is academic advisor a.Z. at the Institute for Media, Knowledge and Communication at the University of Augsburg. Kaya de Wolff is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Media Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
The project was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)