Dr. Christoph Eisemann

Christoph Eisemann is a lecturer in business communication at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Prior to that, he held a teaching position at the University of Basel (media studies) and worked in Germany and Switzerland in communication at diverse companies and political institutions (Vitra, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Consulat Général de France, Institut Français).

Christoph conducted research for his dissertation on youth culture C Walk in the Social Web at the Department of Media Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. In 2016 he was awarded the doctoral prize in the Media Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGFE). Further, he collaborated in media research studies on cyber bullying and mobile phone use for German state media authorities. He completed his doctoral studies at the Ludwigsburg University of Education, Department of Media Education. He completed his studies in Media Economics at Stuttgart Media University (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. (Graduate Industrial Engineer)) as well as at the Sorbonne Paris.

• Business Communication: The University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Business Administration BSc. Basel
• Critical thinking: Teaching at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Business Administration BSc. Basel
• Supervision of Bachelor thesis and project work for external partners: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Business Administration BSc. Basel
• Media Studies: Teaching at the University of Basel, Institute for Media Studies (2015)
• Media education: guest contributions to teaching at PH Ludwigsburg (2010 - 2014)

• C Walk on YouTube - Social space construction, appropriation and development in a digital youth culture (PhD study)
• Violence in Web 2.0: How young people deal with violent content and cyberbullying and the legal classification of the problem (study commissioned by the Lower Saxony State Media Authority)
• Slapping, bullying, snuffing! On the problem of violent and pornographic video clips on mobile phones of teenagers (Study on behalf of the Medienanstalt Hamburg)

Topics

• Media Literacy Research
• Digital culture and communication
• Media use, media change
• Social space (virtual space /physical space)
• Teaching in converging learning spaces (online/offline)

Methods and research concepts

• Qualitative social research
• Online research
• Online Ethnography
• Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM)