Christian Pentzold

I’m Professor and Chair of Media and Communications in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University. Before that, I worked in the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research at the University of Bremen and at Chemnitz University of Technology. In Leipzig, I’m one of the co-directors of the Center for Digital Participation. I’m broadly interested in people’s everyday use of digital media and the roles information and communication technologies play in modern societies. My work in communication research and media analysis links to insights coming from cultural sociology, linguistics as well as science and technology studies. In current projects, I study automation in the public sector, digital political participation, big data and public sensemaking, citizen-driven innovation in journalism, as well as the experience of time in algorithmic media. Beyond that, I’m interested in co-creation and arts-based methods as well as in applying theories of practice to the study of media and communication.