Because the science guys have a problem to understand science...

In my discussions with friends working in physics or IT it often comes to the point where we  realize that the people working in the hard sciences have a problem to understand how social sciences work...

Here is my advise - read this one:
Was-ist-Soziologie / Norbert Elias (German Edition)
or
What-is-Sociology / Norbert Elias (English language edition)

and add a dash of

Jeffrey C. Alexander's essay on the centrality of the classics found in the 1987 edition of Social Theory Today

Teaching ...

Here is an overview regarding my teaching experience. It gives a good overview over my core competences as well as my interests in research and teaching.

Sociology related courses were all held at the University of Linz, the communication realeted ones at the University of Salzburg and the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein, and the one in the educational sciences was at the University of Innsbruck

New Articles in English

Okay in the last few month I was working hard to secure funding for a research project. As it is still unclear, if the proposal will go through I do a updte on a few publications that may be of interest:

First of all my ongoing work on Women in the Austrian Media led to a paper in the "Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies"

Young female journalists in Austria’s journalists’ union: Part of the working poor?

It is about the results of our departments 2010/2011 research project on living conditions of Austrian Journalists.

This is closly related to a secondly a paper based on the projects I have completed with Roman Hummel and Susanne Kirchhoff has been published in the new "Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies".

Changes in media, changes in the profession? The shifts of the journalistic field as a challenge for young Austrian journalists

Mainly about working conditions of journalists in Austria, who view their job as a creative profession with little need for formal education, and insist on the importance of personal networks. Despite this, the younger and female journalists are more likely to educate themselves in hopes of finding a permanent job. It was written by Susanne and myself, with valuable input from project leader Roman Hummel.

And going hand in hand with those:

Here is the link to the paper on the percieved value of Education in the Austrian journalism landscape. It was originally presented at the third World Journalism Education Congress, which was held earlier this summer in Mechelen, Belgium. The conferencepaper was reviewed and the article is available online at the conference site - or here:

Which Education for Which Journalism under Which Circumstances?

Another round of Updates

Okay did some huge updates to the blog.
There are new papers to be found, information on new publications and my teaching etc.

Take a look around!

Cheers,
Dimitri

Updated my LinkedIn Profile

After serveral months of social network abstinence I updated my LinkedIn-Profile... :)

Momentum 2013 - Fortschritt

I should do some advertising for the upcoming Momentum congress and I got an AWESOME package of poster and information material :)

Thanks to the organizing Committee for being so fast!

The topic of this year is PROGRESS and that is one interesting issue, in our current societal and economic climate!

Updated the blog a bit.

Small update of the blog.
Trying to keep up with my schedule!

Okay my dissertation is progressing and the first 10 days lead to 573 datasets!

YES - already passed the minimum number of completed datasets I needed for my thesis, and already past the halfway point of a good large data set ;)

Thanks to the Johannes Kepler University Linz and Paris Lodron University Salzburg!

Yeah IGN does not really do journalistic work. But those memes are getting really interesting for me.
Can special interest media even do "journalism" and survive?

Okay... The mighty GAF has even a gooooood long thread on the whole issue of gaming journalism!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497024

Women and media industries in Europe

And just a short follow up to my last post:
Susanne Kirchhoff and me are the Austrian research team for the new project funded by the "European Institute for Gender Equality"(EIGE) and we have now reached stage 3 of the project - conducting interviews with female journalists in Austrian media.

Homepage: http://womenandmedia.eu/