Elizabeth Prommer

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Elizabeth Prommer (born October 1, 1965 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American communications and media scientist . She teaches at the University of Rostock .

Life

Elizabeth Prommer is the daughter of an engineer and a teacher. After graduating from high school in 1985 in Graefelfing , she studied communication science, political science and social and economic history at the University of Munich . After five years as a research assistant at the University of Television and Film Munich , she received her doctorate in 1998 from the University of Leipzig . She founded the scientific research company Prommer Media Consulting and also worked as a research assistant at the Potsdam-Babelsberg University of Film and Television until 2009 , interrupted by a visiting professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2009 she took on a substitute professorship at the University of Hamburg and in the same year went to the University of Vienna as a professor for research on reception and effects . Her habilitation in 2011 at the University of Leipzig was followed by a professorship in Rostock.

Since the 2011/2012 winter semester , Prommer has been director of the Institute for Media Research and professor at the University of Rostock at the Chair of Communication and Media Studies.

Scientific work

Elizabeth Prommer's academic work focuses on media reception and audience research. Her concern is the analysis of the connection between media, media reception and society, especially in the field of audiovisual media .

Fonts (selection)

  • Going to the cinema on your resume. A historical and media-biographical study . Dissertation, UVK, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 978-3896692405 .
  • Qualitative television research . In: Averbeck-Lietz, Stefanie / Meyen, Michael (eds.): Handbook of non-standardized methods in communication studies. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01656-2 .
  • with Christine Linke: hidden. Women in German film and television . Halem Verlag, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-86962-428-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Elizabeth Prommer , blexkom.halemverlag.de, accessed on September 27, 2019.
  2. Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Prommer , Institute for Media Research, University of Rostock, accessed on September 27, 2019.