Dipl.-Päd. Christiane Schwinge

Christiane Schwinge (born 1981) studied Education with a focus on Media Education at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the University of Hamburg. During her studies she was involved in numerous media education projects. She is chair of the jaf – Verein für medienpädagogische Praxis Hamburg e.V. [Association for Media-Education Practice] and a founding member of the Creative Gaming Initiative. From 2007 until 2010 she was involved in various projects of the Hans Bredow Institute as a student assistant, from April until October 2010 she has been a researcher in the project “Acquisition of Competencies, Excessive Use and the Identification of Addiction with regard to Computer Games”. Since October 2010 she works as researcher at the department for media education at the University of Hamburg.

In her diploma thesis she explored the potential of the social web for action-oriented media education and was awarded the Medius-Prize for innovative, academic and practice-oriented theses.

Her interests lie in the area of media education and media socialisation at the interface of research and media education practice with a focus on digital interactive media such as the social web and serious games.