Margreth Lünenborg

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Margreth Lünenborg (born May 31, 1963 in Südlohn ) is a German communications scientist and journalism researcher. From 2009 to 2014 she was the director of the International College of Journalists . Since 2015 she has been the director of the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Lünenborg studied journalism and spatial planning at the University of Dortmund from 1984 to 1990 . In 1986/87 she completed a traineeship at the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Essen. After completing her studies, she worked as a freelance journalist for ARD radio stations until 1996, in particular for the program “Zeite” at Sender Freies Berlin (SFB). From 1992 to 1996 she was a PhD scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation ; In 1996, at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin , she became a Dr. phil. PhD.

Then she was press spokeswoman for the Ministry for Women, Youth and Housing of the State of Schleswig-Holstein ( Simonis II Cabinet ), headed by Angelika Birk (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) in 1996/97 . From 1998 to 2001 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig , where she was in charge of the university radio mephisto 97.6 . 2005 habilitation them with the help of the German Research Foundation at the Faculty Cultural Studies at the University of Dortmund on journalism as a cultural process and received the venia legendi of Journalism. In 2005 she was a substitute professor for media and communication at the University of Siegen . In 2004/05 she was visiting professor at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna and from 2005 to 2007 at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin. In 2008 she became a professor at the University of Siegen. In addition to other teaching activities, she has been Professor of Journalism at the Free University of Berlin since 2009. From 2009 to 2014 she was director of the International Journalists' College there. In 2009 she took over the scientific management of the central institution for the promotion of women and gender studies and in 2014 she became the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary center for gender studies. She is the Liaison Lecturer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Her current research interests include hybrid formats of journalism, media and migration, gender media studies as well as affects and emotions in transcultural communication.

Lünenborg is a member of the editorial board of Feminist Media Studies and Media & Communication as well as editor of the series Critical Studies in Media and Communication at transcript Verlag . She is also a member of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies , the European Communication Research an Education Association and the International Association of Mass Communication Research.

Fonts (selection)

  • FrauenStadtBuch Berlin (= Elefanten-Press . 471). With photos by Ruth Westerwelle, Elefanten Press, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88520-471-1 .
  • Journalists in Europe: An international comparative analysis of gendering in the social system journalism (= studies on communication studies . Vol. 26). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 3-531-12915-5 .
  • Journalism as a cultural process: On the importance of journalism in the media society. A draft . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14462-6 .
  • (Ed.): Politics on the Boulevard ?: The reorganization of the sexes in the politics of the media society (= Critical media studies . Vol. 1). Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89942-939-8 .
  • Scandalization on television: strategies, manifestations and reception of reality TV formats (= media research series of the state media institute in North Rhine-Westphalia . Vol. 65). Published by the State Agency for Media North Rhine-Westphalia , Vistas, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89158-542-9 .
  • with Katharina Fritsche, Annika Bach: Migrantinnen in den Medien: Representations in the press and their reception (= Critical Media Studies . Vol. 7). Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1730-6 .
  • with Jutta Röser (ed.): Unequally powerful: The gendering of leaders from politics, business and science in media communication (= critical media studies . Vol. 6). Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1692-7 .
  • with Tanja Maier: Gender Media Studies: An Introduction (= UTB . No. 3872). UVK (UTB), Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3872-8 .

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SURNAME Lünenborg, Margreth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist and journalism teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH South wage