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Dr. Thomas Rakebrand

Dr. Thomas Rakebrand

Research Fellow

Media and Communications
Zeppelinhaus
Nikolaistraße 27-29, Room 5.21
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 35762

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Abstract

Dr. Thomas Rakebrand is scientific assistant at the Chair of Media and Communication Science under Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University. He is Member of the programme directorate of mephisto 97.6.


His dissertation dealed with the endogenous and exogenous communicate understanding of formal and informal rules of creative practices in social communities of practice. For this purpose, an analysis model of a "governance of creative practices" was designed. With its help, the field of the free performing arts in Saxony was examined as an example.

Another focus in teaching and research is the importance of science and research ethics in communication studies as well as communicative understanding.


more information: https://thomas-rakebrand.de/

Professional career

  • since 10/2022
    Leipzig University | scientific assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Media and Communication Science at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (Prof. Dr. Christian Pentzold). Member of the programme directorate of mephisto 97.6.
  • 09/2019 - 09/2020
    Leipzig University | scientific assistant, Teaching coordination and student's advisor at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies, temporary representation
  • 10/2016 - 09/2022
    Leipzig University | scientific assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Communication Science at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (Prof. Dr. Patrick Donges)
  • 06/2015 - 09/2016
    Der Kinderkanal von ARD und ZDF | Junior Producer of the editorial office for viewers, temporary parental representation
  • 01/2013 - 11/2013
    Leipzig University | research assistant at the Chair of Media Pedagogy and Further Education at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies
  • 03/2011 - 12/2012
    Leipzig University | student assistant at the Chair of Media Pedagogy and Further Education at the Institute of Communication and Media Science (Prof. Dr. Bernd Schorb), DFG priority programme 1505 "Mediatized Worlds"
  • 01/2011 - 09/2022
    medienblau, klangumfang, KF Education a.o. | freelance media padagogue (conception, coordination and management of media competence projects, trainings and workshops, conception of educational materials), e.g. on behalf of SLM, Medienanstalt Hessen, MDR, klicksafe, Landesjugendring Thüringen, SAEK
  • 11/2008 - 06/2014
    mephisto 97.6 – das Lokalradio der Universität Leipzig | head of department, management of a specialist editorial team, editing, moderation, moderation coaching
  • 06/2007 - 08/2008
    Volksstimme-Lokalredaktion, Haldensleben | head of department „Szenetreff“, editing

Education

  • 03/2017 - 10/2020
    acquisition of the Saxon University Teaching Certificate Plus
  • 10/2016 - 06/2022
    completed doctorate in Communication Science (magna cum laude)
  • 10/2011 - 02/2014
    studies of Communication and Media Science (Master of Arts) at the University of Leipzig (with focus on media pedagogy)
  • 10/2008 - 07/2011
    studies of Communication and Media Science (Master of Arts) at the University of Leipzig

Panel Memberships

  • since 01/2024
  • since 03/2023
    alternate member of the ethics advisory board of the University of Leipzig
  • 04/2022 - 09/2022
    representative of the academic mid-level positions in the Institute Council for Communication and Media Science at the University of Leipzig
  • 04/2021 - 08/2022
    member of the appointment committee for the W2 professorship "Media change with a focus on book culture and digital publications" as a representative for the mid-level academic positions. University of Leipzig
  • 10/2019 - 09/2022
    deputy member of the study commission as a representative of the academic mid-level staff in the M.A. KMW, Magister KMW and M.A. Radio at the University of Leipzig
  • 04/2019 - 03/2020
    representative of the academic mid-level positions in the Institute Council for Communication and Media Science at the University of Leipzig
  • 10/2018 - 09/2022
    member of the examination board as a representative for the mid-level academic positions in the B.A. KMW at the University of Leipzig

In my dissertation project I dealed with creative practices as the subject of a multidimensional governance. The focus of consideration was on the endogenous and exogenous understanding of formal and informal rules of creative practices in social communities of practice. The field of the free performing arts in Saxony was examined as an example.


My further scientific interest relates to questions, challenges and approaches of science and research ethics and their significance for communication science. The focus is in particular on the implementation of ethical considerations in empirical analysis and methodological teaching.


My empirical focus is especially on qualitative social scientific methods to reconstruct contexts of meaning such as interviews, observations and group discussions as well as discourse-analytical approaches.

  • Learning or Aligning: Political visualizations in new media and their impact on political knowledge
    Amit-Danhi, Eedan
    Duration: 12/2022 – ongoing
    Funded by: Ausland
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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more projects

  • Rakebrand, T.; Schlütz, D.
    Forschungsethik in der kommunikations- und medienwissenschaftlichen Hochschullehre. Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis
    Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft. 2019. 67 (2). pp. 187–205.
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  • Rakebrand, T.
    Wissenschafts- und Forschungsethik als Teilbereich kritischen Denkens: Potenziale und Herausforderungen für die Lehrpraxis am Beispiel der Kommunikationswissenschaft
    die hochschullehre. Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Studium und Lehre. 2019. pp. 985–996.
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  • Prinzing, M.; Schlütz, D.; Kaufmann, K.; Kreissl, J.; Rakebrand, T.
    Ethikkompetenz als Querschnittsaufgabe. Herausforderungen für die kommunikations- und medienwissenschaftliche Forschung und Lehre
    Publizistik. 2020. pp. 1–20.
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  • Rakebrand, T.
    Verständigung über Regeln kreativer Praktiken. Governance am Beispiel der freien darstellenden Kunst
    Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2022.
    ISBN: 978-3-658-40141-2
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  • Rakebrand, T.
    Planung und Durchführung digitaler Interviews
    In: Stollfuß, S.; Niebling, L.; Raczkowski, F. (Eds.)
    Handbuch Digitale Medien und Methoden. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2024. pp. 1–18.
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more publications

  • Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Nachwuchspreis für besonderes Engagement in der Lehre 2020
    Rakebrand, Thomas (Kommunikationswissenschaft)
    awarded in 2021 by Universitätsgesellschaft. Freunde und Förderer der Universität Leipzig.
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  • Workshop
    Internet Governance in the Global Condition
    Kommunikationswissenschaft
    Event Organiser: Donges, Patrick; Rakebrand, Thomas; Grenz, Fabian
    01/12/2017
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  • Konferenz
    Ausbildung im lokalen crossmedialen Journalismus - 30 Jahre mephisto 97.6
    Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
    Event Organiser: Rakebrand, Thomas
    30/05/2025
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In my teaching activities at the university I focus on cross-media journalistic basics, forms, working methods and formats.


The subject of my teaching are beyond that qualitative empirical methods for the investigation of communication science issues. The students should be enabled to conceive and critically reflect on empirical research projects. Also the focus of the courses was on dealing with science and research ethics as a specific aspect of critical thinking and its significance for communication science. Furthermore, communicative processes of understanding as well as phenomena of the media system and media change were the subject of my teaching.

  • lecture (one session) „Forschungsethik“ (M.A. KMW)

    session in lecture series: Probleme und Rätsel der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft; module: Introduction to the Master Program Communication and Media Studies (06-005-550) - winter semester 2024/25

  • seminar „Crossmedialer Kulturjournalismus“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    seminar in module: Arbeitsfelder des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1013-1) - sommer semester 2024 & 2025 (2024 with Millo Schreiter)

  • seminar „Zwischen Fiktion und Nonfiktion – Satire als Hörkunst“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    seminar in module: Arbeitsfelder des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1013-1) - sommer semester 2023 - 2025

  • exercise „Crossmediales Feature“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    exercise in module: Formen und Formate des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1014-1) - winter semester 2022/23 - 2024/25

  • exercise „Crossmediale Reportage“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    exercise in module: Formen und Formate des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1014-1) - winter semester 2022/23 - 2024/25

  • exercise „Lehrredaktion: Crossmedialer Journalismus für Beginner:innen (Themensendung)“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    exercise in module: Grundlagen des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1012-1) - winter semester 2022/23 - 2024/25

  • seminar „Crossmedia-Journalismus – Grundlagen und Formen“ (WF Crossmedia-Journalismus)

    seminar in module: Grundlagen des Crossmedia-Journalismus (06-005-1012-1) - winter semester 2022/23 - 2024/25

  • seminar „Kommunikations- und Medienethik“ (M.A. KMW)

    seminar in module: Communikation, Media, and Society (06-005-551) - winter semester 2021/22

  • lecture (one session) „Forschungsethische Probleme“ (M.A. KMW)

    session in lecture series: Probleme und Rätsel der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft; module: Introduction to the Master Program Communication and Media Studies (06-005-550) - winter semester 2018/19 - 2023/24

  • seminar & project seminar „Verständigung in Zeiten von Populismus, Polarisierung und Inzivilität – ein Workshopkonzept“ (B.A. KMW)

    module: Media Change and Society. Fields of Application (06-005-1106) - summer semester 2021 & 2022

  • seminar „Qualitative empirische Erhebungsmethoden“ (B.A. KMW)

    seminar in module: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies (06-005-1134) - summer semester 2020 - 2025

  • seminar „Wie geht Forschungsethik? Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Grundsätzen und wissenschaftlicher Praxis“ (B.A. KMW)

    project seminar in application module 1: Communication Science (06-05-1005-1) - summer semester 2020


  • seminar „Mediensystem und Medienwandel“ (B.A. KMW)

    seminar in basic module I: Media System and Media Change (06-005-1128) - winter semester 2019/20

  • seminar „Qualitative empirische Methoden“ (B.A. KMW)

    seminar in methods module: Specific Methods of Communication Science (06-005-1004-01) - winter semester 2016/17 - 2019/20

  • seminar „Wissenschafts- und Forschungsethik“ (B.A. KMW)

    seminar in theory module: Theories of Communication and Media Science (06-005-1003-1) - summer semester 2018 & 2019

  • project seminar „Wieso Forschungsethik? Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Grundsätzen und wissenschaftlicher Praxis“ (B.A. KMW)

    project seminar in application module 1: Communication Science (06-05-1005-1) - summer semester 2017