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| Dr. rer.pol. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt11/15/72 in Würzburgjan.schmidt@split.uni-bamberg.de
skype: janschmidtbamberg |
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Professional Experience
| (ab 11/07) | Senior Researcher for digital interactive Media and political communikation at the Hans-Bredow-Institut [homepage] |
| (since 10/05) | Senior Researcher and Deputy Head at the “Research Centre for New Communication Media” (FoNK) [homepage] |
| (07/05 - 09/05) | Research Fellow at the “Department for E-Learning” (Prof. Bernad Batinic) and the “Department of Data Processing in Social Sciences, Economics and Business” (Prof. Manfred Pils), Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) |
| (01/05 - 04/05) | PostDoc Scholar (funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD) at the “Center for New Media” (Thomas N. Burg), Danube University, Krems/Vienna (Austria) |
| (04/04 - 12/04) | Junior Assistant at the Chair of Sociology II (Prof. Dr. Richard Münch) [homepage] |
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(10/02 - 09/03) |
Research assistant at the Bavarian State Institute of Family Research (ifb) [homepage] |
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(04/01 - 09/01) |
Junior assistant at the Chair of Sociology II (Prof. Dr. Richard Münch) [homepage] |
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(01/00 - 03/01) |
Research assistant at the “Research Centre for New Communication Media” (FoNK) [homepage] |
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(10/99 - 12/99) |
Junior Officer at the Foreign Office of Bamberg University [homepage] |
| Freelance Work | |
| (since 04/02) | Lecturer at the Fachhochschule Würzburg/Schweinfurt, Departments for “Social Work” und “Media Management“ |
| (since 10/01) | Scientific consulting for various customers (FoNK, ifb, ver.di Hessen, Tourismus & Kongress Service Bamberg, Dresdner Bank AG, …) |
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(01/00 - 12/02) |
“Bertelsmann Online” (bol.de) - field of electronic music |
Projects (funding/institution)
| (2005-07) | “Practices of online-based networking – form and consequences of social software” (DFG; FoNK) |
| (2005) | User survey at fes-stip.de (fes-stip.de; FoNK) |
| (2005) | “Structuration principles in computer-mediated communication: The Weblog case” (DAAD-PostDoc-scholarship project at the “Center for New Media“, Danube University, Krems/Vienna, Austria) |
| (2004) | “technology.log. Knowledge Community for Research, Technology and Innovation.” Joint Project with Thomas Burg, Zentrum für neue Medien, Donau-Universität Krems (Österreich) (innovatives-oesterreich.at; FonK) |
| (2004) | User survey at fes-ehemalige.de (fes-ehemalige.de) |
| (2004) | Evaluation of “Network 60+“, Community Network Bamberg (FoNK) |
| (2003-04) | “Relevance of internal organizational communication” (Dresdner Bank AG) |
| (2003-04) | Attitudes towards unions among young professionals from the public sector (ver.di Hessen) |
| (2003) | “Usage of public Internet Access Points” (FoNK) |
| (2002-03) | “Online user survey for the Bamberg Computer Centre” (Bamberg University) |
| (2002-03) | “Work-Life-Balance” (STMAS) |
| (2002) | “Evaluating the virtual community feki.de” (feki.de) |
| (2001-02) | “Evaluating the catholic newspaper ‘Heinrichsblatt‘” (Diocesan Authorities Bamberg) |
| (2000-01) | “Coping strategies of newspaper organizations” (FoNK) |
| (2000-01) | “Institutionalisierung von Computernetzen” (FoNK) |
Other activities and memberships
- President of the Alumni Association “Absolventen der Bamberger Soziologie e.V.“
- Member of the “FUTUR”-Forschungsdialog (Federal Office for Education and Research)
- Member of the “German Association for Online Research” (DGOF)
- Co-Founder of the “Comedy-Lounge” Bamberg
Teaching
At Otto Friedrich University Bamberg
- Graduate seminar “Sociology of the Internet”
- Graduate project seminar “Usage patterns and structures of religious media” (with Prof. Dr. Theis-Berglmair)
- Graduate project seminar “Quantitative research on the Internet”
- Undergraduate project seminar “Researching teenage blogs“
- Undergraduate project seminar “Online-based organizational communication: Form, functions and consequences of Weblogs and Wikis” (with Dipl. Soz. Florian Mayer)
- Undergraduate seminar “General sociology: Sociological Classics”
- Undergraduate seminar “Sociology of sport”
- Undergraduate seminar “Networked Communucation”
- Undergraduate seminar „Introduction to empirical social resarch for communication science“
Lecture “Introduction to Sociology I & II” (2002 to 2004) - Seminar “Sociology for social workers at schools” (2002 to 2004)
- Seminar “Media sociology I & II” (since 2005)
At University of Applied Science Coburg
- Seminar „Analysing qualitative and quantitative data“
Education
| (06/99) | Degree (Diplom) in Sociology at Bamberg University |
| (08/96 - 05/97) | West-Virginia-University  , Morgantown, WV, USA |
| (04/95 - 06/99) | Scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation |
| (10/93) | Majoring in Sociology at Bamberg University |
| (07/92 - 09/93) | Alternative Service at the Protestant Student’s Congregation, Bonn |
| (06/92) | Abitur at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium, Bonn |
Qualifications
- English Skills
- Computer Skills (MS Windows, MS Office, Visual Basic for MS-Applications, Internet, SPSS, Atlas T/I, Winmax, Rogator, Globalpark Umfragecenter, various Weblog/Wiki/Web 2.0 Applications)