Profile
Abstract
Patrick Donges is professor for Communication Studies at the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University since April 2016. His work focuses on political communication, media structures and media policy, theories of communication science and organizational communication. After studying political science and journalism at the University of Hamburg, Donges worked at various scientific institutions and for various projects, e.g. in Zurich, Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin. He spent time abroad, for example, at the Institute of Journalism at Zurich University or as a visiting professor at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Science at the University of Vienna. Before starting his work as professor in Leipzig two years ago, Donges worked as professor at the University of Greifswald.
Professional career
- since 10/2019
Vice Dean Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy - 04/2019 - 04/2021
Executive Director Institute of Communication and Media Studies - since 04/2016
Chair for Communication Studies, Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University - 10/2009 - 03/2016
Chair for Communication Studies, Institute of Political Science and Communication Studies, University of Greifswald - 09/2008 - 09/2009
Assistant Professor (Political Communication), Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich - 04/2008 - 07/2008
Substitute Professor, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin - 03/2005 - 09/2005
Visiting Professor, Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Vienna - 10/2004 - 02/2005
Visiting lecturer, Department of Communication Studies, University of Vienna - 04/1998 - 08/2008
Assistant / Senior Assistent (since 2001), Institute for Media and Communikation Studies, University of Zurich - 04/1996 - 03/1998
Research Assistant, Hans-Bredow-Institut. University of Hamburg - 05/1995 - 03/1996
Research Assistant, Institute for Journalism Studies, University of Hamburg
Education
- 10/1990 - 05/1995
Diploma in Political Science and Journalism, University of Hamburg - 09/2001
Ph.D. in Communication Studies, University of Zurich - 10/2007
Habilitation in Communication Studies, University of Zurich
In my research, I work on the focus of the institute - change in communication, media and society - from a structural and process-related perspective. Issues in research are the structural conditions, institutional rules and social consequences of communication with varying degrees of publicity and by means of various media. The main research interests are political communication, media structures and their political design, as well as the communication of and in groups and organizations.
- Specialized Media and Publics in Political CommunicationDonges, PatrickDuration: 10/2015 – 10/2019Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Establishment of the research field "development communication" in communication studies and journalismHamidi, KefaDuration: 12/2018 – 11/2021Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Handbook series on corporate communicationsZerfaß, AnsgarDuration: 06/2017 – 03/2022Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Strategische Kommunikation; Kommunikationswissenschaft; Kommunikationsmanagement
- Donges, P.; Jarren, O.Politische Kommunikation in der Mediengesellschaft. Eine Einführung (5. Auflage)Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2022.ISBN: 978-3-658-37079-4
- Röttger, U.; Donges, P.; Zerfaß, A. (Eds.)Handbuch Public Affairs: Politische Kommunikation für Unternehmen und OrganisationenWiesbaden: Springer Gabler. 2021.
- Donges, P.Medialisierung und Organisationen/Politische AkteureHandbuch Politische Kommunikation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2020.
For a research-based career orientation, as the Institute for Communication and Media Science offers in teaching, the sentence attributed to Kurt Lewin is still relevant "nothing is as practical as a good theory". Good theories make things that appear familiar strange, create new perspectives and help to differentiate hives from lasting changes. Only those who know (institutionalized) rules of communication can successfully try to shape them.
Courses are offered on the topics
- Introduction to the theories of communication science with a focus on basic concepts, actors, structures and processes
- Theories of the public
- Communication and media structures in Germany and other countries
- Group and organizational communication
- Political communication
- Communication and media ethics
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Lecture Theories of Communication Studies
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Lecture The Media System in Germany
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Seminar Communication and Media Ethics
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Seminar Group and Organizational Communication
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Seminar Theories of the Public Sphere
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Seminar Political Organizations
Research fields
Communication and media studies
Specializations
Political Communication
Media systems and media policy
Organizational communication
Theories and models of communication
Contact for media inquiries
Phone: +49 341 97-35711