Postdoctoral Researcher
(currently on leave)
04/2018 - 09/2018: Visiting Professor at the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, University of Munich (LMU)
09/2014 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Mainz, Germany
10/2016-01/2017: Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
09/2014: Dr. phil. in Communication Research
Title of the dissertation: 'Shared media use in teenagers’ peer groups as shared engagement with identity and developmental tasks'
05/2009 - 08/2014: Research associate at the Department of Communication, University of Mainz, Germany
11/2008 - 04/2009: Junior project manager, m-result Market Research & Management Consulting, Mainz, Germany
08/2004 - 10/2008: Project assistant market research, m-result Market Research & Management Consulting, Mainz, Germany
11/2008: Magister Artium (M.A.) in Communication Science; title of the thesis: 'The pornography consumption among german adolescents'
04/2003 - 11/2008: Studies of Communication Science (major), Psychology, and Musicology (minors), University of Mainz, Germany
01/2006 - 05/2006: Studies of Journalism, University of Bordeaux, France
Research Agenda
- Social communication
- Children, adolescents and media
- Risks of digital communication
- Economic journalism
- Media use and effects
- Quantitative and qualitative methods
Other Activities
Reviewer for a number of scientific journals: e.g., Media Psychology; New Media & Society; International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Elected representative for the non-tenured faculty in different boards and committees at the University of Mainz
Awards
- Biannual dissertation award of the German Communication Association (2016)
- Award for the best dissertation on media convergence, Research Center on Media Convergence, University of Mainz (2014)
- Naomi C. Turner Award of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) for the best paper presented by emerging scholars at the annual conference 2014
- Magister degree received ‚with distinction‘
Contact
E-Mail: mathias.weber@uni-mainz.de