{"id":14584,"date":"2023-01-01T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kowi-salzburg.at\/team\/univ-prof-dr-thomas-birkner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:14:57","slug":"univ-prof-dr-thomas-birkner","status":"publish","type":"dt_team","link":"https:\/\/www.kowi-salzburg.at\/en\/team\/univ-prof-dr-thomas-birkner\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Birkner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Birkner<\/h2>\n<h5>Head of <strong>Division Journalism Studies<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;width=&#8220;497&#8220; height=&#8220;332&#8220;&#8221;][vc_column_text]<strong>Room:<\/strong> 1st floor 1045, Rudolfskai 42 5020 Salzburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office hours:<\/strong> by appointment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +43-662-8044-4157<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mail:<\/strong> <a title=\"Thomas.Birkner@plus.ac.at\" href=\"mailto:Thomas.Birkner@plus.ac.at\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-typo-obfuscation-id=\"typo-649c8e501c671-1,typo-649c8e501c671-2\" data-content=\"=QXYuMWYuMXdsBHQyVmbrJXaC5ych12boRlOvRHbpFWb\"><span data-typo-obfuscation-id=\"typo-649c8e501c671-6\">Thomas.Birkner@plus.ac.at<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 15px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>Thomas Birkner is a full professor at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. He heads the journalism division. In addition to linking journalistic practice and international journalism research, he is particularly interested in the medialization of politics and sports and teaches political communication and sports journalism. After completing the project \u201cThe Media Biographies of the Federal German Chancellors\u201d, his current project is called \u201cThe Century of Journalism\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Research Interests&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1687894439643-362dbb23-6cd2b474-42c38f2d-4d6a&#8221;]<div class=\"standard-arrow list-divider bullet-top\"><ul>\n<li>Journalism\/Journalism Research<\/li>\n<li>Political communication<\/li>\n<li>History of Communication<\/li>\n<li>Sports Communication<\/li>\n<li>International comparative media systems research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>[\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Networks&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1687894516670-7d16be3a-9e7ab474-42c38f2d-4d6a&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.icahdq.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icahdq.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Communication Association (ICA)<\/a><i class=\"fa fa-external-link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.ecrea.eu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecrea.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)<\/a><i class=\"fa fa-external-link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.dgpuk.de\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dgpuk.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies<\/a> (DGPuK) <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.dortmund.de\/de\/leben_in_dortmund\/bildungwissenschaft\/institut_fuer_zeitungsforschung\/start_zi\/index.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dortmund.de\/de\/leben_in_dortmund\/bildungwissenschaft\/institut_fuer_zeitungsforschung\/start_zi\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verein zur F\u00f6rderung der Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund e. 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