PD Dr. phil. habil. Frauke Zeller
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Dr. Frauke Zeller hat ein Marie Curie Fellowship der Europäischen Kommission (FP7) erhalten und forscht und arbeitet nun an der Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Starting in September 2011, Dr Frauke Zeller conducts research at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada as a Marie Curie Fellow, funded by the European Commission (FP7).
E-Mail: fzeller(at)wlu.ca
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Curriculum Vitae
Marie Curie Fellow (International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Commission, Call: FP7-People-2010-IOF) from September 2011 on. Project: Online Communication Analysis - Methods for Multimodal, Networked Communication. From September 2011 to August 2012, research visit at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
July 2011 Habilitation (i.e. highest academic qualification in Germany) and Venia legendi (Latin for "permission for lecturing") in "Medien- und Kommunikationswissenchaft" (media and communication studies) at Ilmenau University of Technology.
2005 - 2011 assistant professor / lecturer at Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Media and Communication Science.
February 2005 Doctor philosophiae in English linguistics and computational philology. Thesis title: Mensch-Roboter Interaktion: Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Perspektive (Human-robot interaction from a linguistic perspective).
2000 - 2004 PhD candidate and research assistant at the University of Kassel, Department of English and Romance Languages.
2001 - 2003 assistant to the Dean and network administrator at the University of Kassel, Department of English and Romance Languages.
1998 - 1999 Strittmatter & Jacobs, Cologne, Investor Relations.
1994 - 1999 Degree (German Diplom - Master equivalent) in English, Spanish, economics at the University of Kassel.
1996 - 1997 Bachelor Degree (BA hons.) at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
Forschung/Research
Major Research Projects/Networks:
From September 2011 on: Marie Curie Fellow (International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Commission, Call: FP7-People-2010-IOF) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON, Canada. Project: Online Communication Analysis - Methods for Multimodal, Networked Communication.
Since 2010: Member of the Steering Group of the COST Action IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies” , chair of the working group “The role of media and ICT use for evolving social relationships“.
June 2006 - October 2010: Member of the project management board in a Network of Excellence project (EU FP6) "OPAALS: Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems", co-ordinator of the social science research domain
Habilitation & Venia legendi (finished July 2011):
The Habilitation (PostDoc research) deals with online communities and their development, including the emergence/development of a community identity (bottom-up and top-down) through communication, trust, and work-related as well as social relationships.
The thesis includes an empirical long-term study (4.5 years) of a multinational and interdisciplinary knowledge-community that predominantly interacts via ICT. Language plays a core role in the empirical as well as theoretical part, using it as a means to analyse the development of the afore-mentioned points on a macro and micro level: ‘macro’ denoting the quantitative paradigm in terms of analysing interaction patterns (work-related and social relationships); and ‘micro’ a qualitative analysis of the interaction per se trying to detect the development of a joint identity and trust by means of content analysis and discourse analysis.
By using a mixed methods approach on a large corpus (comprising emails, publications, etc.) that had been collected over a large period of time, the thesis aims at contributing significantly to the field of online communities taking into consideration a technological and language (i.e. social) perspective, as well as applying an interdisciplinary methodological approach (content analysis, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis).
General research topics:
- Computer-mediated communication
- Online communities
- Intercultural and interdisciplinary communication
- Online research methods
- Organisational communication
- Gender studies
- Computational linguistics
- Digital Ecosystems
Publikationen/Publications
zuletzt erschienen:
Zeller, F., & Wolling, J. (2010). Struktur- und Qualitätsanalyse publizistischer Onlineangebote. In Media Perspektiven, 3, S. 143-153.