Christian Pentzold

Christian Pentzold, 2010

Christian Pentzold (* 1981 ) is a German communication and media scientist .

Life

After graduating from the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. Pentzold studied communication and media science at the TU Chemnitz and at the University of Stirling . He published his master's thesis in 2007 under the title Wikipedia: Discussion Room and Information Storage in the New Network. He then conducted research at the Oxford Internet Institute, the University of Oxford and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University . Pentzold was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2013 he received his doctorate after submitting his dissertation with the title The practice of online cooperation: Practices and institutions of online media cooperation at the TU Chemnitz. In 2015 his doctoral thesis was published as a book entitled Collaboration on the Net: Practices and Institutions of Internet-Based Cooperation .

From 2016 to 2019, Pentzold was junior professor for communication and media studies with a focus on media society at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen . In 2017, the University of Trier completed his habilitation on the topic of Transmedia Discourses: Conditions, Analytical Framework, and Case Studies. Since August 2019 he has been Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the TU Chemnitz ( W2 professorship ). In 2020 he accepted a professorship from the University of Leipzig for the W3 professorship for media and communication studies.

Among other things, Pentzold works on the topic of common knowledge construction , for example in Wikipedia .

Works

Monographs:

Collaboration on the Net - Practices and Institutions of Internet-Based Cooperation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2016. ISBN 978-3-658-13567-6
with Claudia Fraas and Stefan Meier: Online Communication - Basics, Fields of Practice and Methods . Munich, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-486-59180-4
Wikipedia - discussion space and information store in the new network. Reinhard Fischer Verlag, Munich, 2007. ISBN 978-3-88927-434-2

Editorships (selection):

with Andreas Bischof and Nele Heise: Practice Grounded Theory - theory-generating empirical research in media-related living environments. A textbook and workbook. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2018. ISBN 978-3-658-15998-6
with Andrea Hajek and Christine Lohmeier: Memory in a Mediated World - Remembrance and Reconstruction. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-47011-9
with Claudia Fraas and Stefan Meier: Online Discourses - Theories and Methods of Transmedial Online Discourse Research. Cologne, Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86962-065-7

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