Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold

Short vita

Christian Pentzold is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig. Previously, he was Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the TU Chemnitz and, from 2016 to 2019, Junior Professor of Communication and Media Studies with a focus on media society at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen. During and after his PhD, Christian Pentzold spent research periods at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, at the Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Research interests

  • Internet-based communication and cooperation
  • Digital media technologies
  • Public discourses and datafication
  • Human-robot communication
  • Qualitative and computer-aided methods of media analysis and communication research
  • Media practice and everyday culture
  • Media Memory and Time Regime