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Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Bremen. From 2008 to 2011 she has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Zurich and of Münster. Her dissertation (University of Münster) was about the rise of a sociological milieu from the middle of the Newspaper Science of the Weimar Republic (Kommunikation als Prozess. Soziologische Perspektiven in der Zeitungswissenschaft 1927-1934. London and Münster: LIT, 2000). Her habilitation thesis (University of Leipzig) analyzed the development of communication studies in France (Kommunikationstheorien in Frankreich. Der epistemologische Diskurs der Sciences de l'information et de la communication 1975-2005. Berlin, Paris and Toronto: AVINUS, 2010). Her fields of research and teaching are: communication theory, communication history, history of communication studies, communication and media ethics, inter- and transcultural communication, and qualitative methodology.