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Christine Linke
Christine Linke, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor of Communication Sociology at Berlin University of the Arts, Germany. She received a doctoral degree from the University of Erfurt, Germany. She has been a researcher and lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Erfurt and the Technical University of Ilmenau. Her research areas of interest include Media and Everyday Life, Digital Media and the Construction of Identity, and Ritual (Media) Communication. Her present work is furthermore concerned with Representations of Gender and Ethnicity in Audiovisual Media and Media Life Worlds of Children and Young People. Selected Publications: Mobile Communication and the Change of Everyday Life (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2010; edited together with Joachim R. Höflich, Georg F. Kircher and Isabel Schlote); ‘Mobile Media in Intimate Relationships: Relationship Development and the Multiple Dialectics of Couples’ Media Usage’, in Rich Ling and Scott Campbell (eds), The Mobile Communication Research Series: Volume II, Mobile Communication: Bringing us Together or Tearing us Apart? (Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 2011), pp. 107–26.