Wiebke Rohde, M. A.

Wiebke Rohde, M. A., (born 1984) studied Media Studies with a focus on Communications, as well as Psychology and Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). During her studies, she interned at the SWR Media Research Department and dealt with content analysis of websites. She collected further interdisciplinary research experience being a student assistant at the Faculty for Empirical Methods in Communication Studies with Prof. Dr. Scheufele at the University of Jena and at the Department of Cognitive & Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town. Following an internship at the Hans Bredow Institute in 2008, she was involved, among others, in the project “Young People and Web 2.0” as a student assistant until March 2010.

From April 2010 through April 2011, Wiebke Rohde was a researcher in the project “Acquisition of Competencies, Excessive Use and the Identification of Addiction with regard to Computer Games”. In her M. A. thesis she focused on memory-relieving, external storage of personal social information on social networking sites.

Her research interests lie at the interfaces of communication-related, socio-psychological and cognitive-neuroscientific research. One focus is put on the area of online communication (networking platforms, digital games), a further one on interpersonal and intergroup-communication with emphasis on peace communication.