Research projects

Biographies in the making in a connected lifeworld. Exploring visual and verbal constructions of life stories

The research project examines how new visual communication practices in social media relate to shifts in the processual construction of biographies.

Team:

Roswitha Breckner (project leader)
Johannes Marent (post-doc)
Elisabeth Mayer (prae-doc)
Anna Weisser (study assistant)

Duration: March 2020 - March 2023

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

The preliminary project Visual biographies in a connected lifeworld with Roswitha Breckner (project leader), Maria Schreiber (post-doc), Elisabeth Mayer (prae-doc) and Anna Weisser (study assistant) was funded by the Anniversary Fund of the City of Vienna for the OEAW from October 2017 until March 2019.

Austrian Film Gender Report

The Austrian Film Gender Report 2012-2016 is a research project conducted by the Department of Sociology. It contains an extensive analysis of data on gender ratios within the Austrian film industry.

Team:

Eva Flicker (project leader)
Lena Vogelmann (key researcher)

On behalf of the Austrian Film Institute and the Federal Chancellery of Austria

Duration: 2017 - 2018