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Dr. Silke Fürst is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM) at the University of Fribourg. She received her PhD from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Silke Fürst studied communication science, contemporary history, and German studies at the University of Münster in Germany and worked as research assistant at the IfK Münster in a research project on the new governance and mediatization of German higher education institutions. From 2012 to 2019, Silke Fürst was research and teaching assistant at the DCM, University of Fribourg.
Her research focuses on journalism, media history, science communication and higher education studies, mediatization, datafication, discourses about audiences, media ethics, communication theory, and open science & public science. Her research is published in journals such as Journalism Studies, Communications, International Journal of Communication, Science Communication, Public Relations Review, Media and Communication, Javnost – The Public, Studies in Communication and Media (SCM), Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS), Medien & Zeit, and Publizistik.
For more information: https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/publicsphere-and-society/team/silke-fuerst.html