Education
PhD at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria, 2014, summa cum laude
Thesis title: (Dis)Like Facebook? Towards a Dialectical and Critical Theory of Digital and Social Media; supervisors: Prof. Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, London, UK; Prof. Elisabeth Klaus, University of Salzburg; Prof. Christian Zeller, University of Salzburg; external examiner: Prof. Graham Murdock, Loughborough University, UK
MA in Communication, University of Salzburg and Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, 2010, summa cum laude
BA in Communication (major) and Politics (minor), University of Salzburg, 2008
Academic Positions
Research Associate at the Department of Media Studies, Paderborn University, Germany, 2022-present
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Instructional and School Development, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 2021-2022
Postdoc at the Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2019-2021
Lecturer in Digital Media at the Division of Communications, Media & Culture, University of Stirling, Scotland, 2016-2019
Lecturer in Social Justice at the Institute for Education, Community & Society, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014-2016
Research Associate at the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria, 2010-2014