Helena Bilandzic

Submission of the habilitation to the University of Erfurt. Title: "Differential media effects: The role of processing experience and media actions" (14 articles across three topics: (1) Experience and content of media narratives; (2) Processes of cultivation and (3) Media use and media actions)

Doctoral degree at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in Communication Science (minor subjects: Consumer Psychology and Media Law). Dissertation advisor: Hans-Bernd Brosius

Dissertation title: "On-line Television Program Choice. The influence of content-related and formal features of the television mes-sage on selections"

Magister Artium at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in Communication Science (minor subjects: French Literature and Media Law).Thesis advisor: Werner Früh

Thesis title: "Perpetrators, victims and context of violent portrayals in television"

Assistant Professor at the Department for Media and Commu-nication of the University of Erfurt

Invited research visit at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Visiting professor for Empirical Media Research / Political Com-munication at the Department for Media and Communication Science of the Technical University of Ilmenau

Research semester at the Washington State University, Pullman, USA, with a research grant from the German Science Foundation

Visiting professor at the Department for Social and Economic Communication of the University of Arts in Berlin

Lecturer and researcher at the Department for Media and Communication of the University of Erfurt

Lecturer and researcher at the Department for Communication Science of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

Vice chair of the Audience and Reception Studies Section of ECREA

Associate Editor of Communications - The European Journal of Communication

Treasurer of the International Federation of Communication Associations

Chair of the Media Audiences and Effects division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

Vice chair of the Media Audiences and Effects division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

Support of the internationalization process of the German Com-munication Association (DGPuK):
- publication of a brochure on international journals and conferences for the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
- organization of the review procedure for the institutional member's panel at the ICA conference

Co-Editor of the book series Audience Studies of the Reinhard Fischer Publishing Company.

Reviewer for ICA, DGPuK, Media Audiences and Effects and Me-thods divisions of the DGPuK; for Journals: Medien & Kommuni-kationswissenschaft, Communications - The European Journal of Communication, Media Psychology, Communication Research Reports; Communication Theory.

Contribution to the development of a new curriculum for a doc-toral program at the University of Erfurt

Contribution to the development of a new curriculum for a BA/MA program at the University of Erfurt

Equal opportunity officer for the Assistant level at the University of Erfurt

Ombudsman for Assistants in the Doctoral Candidate Admissions Board at the University of Erfurt

Equal opportunity officer at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Munich

German Communication Association (DGPuK)

International Communication Association (ICA)

European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Workshop: Patterns of narrative construction in media stories and differential effects (University of Vienna, Austria; with Susanne Kinnebrock)

Workshop: Narratives in health communication, persuasion, and cultivation (University of Erfurt)

Workshop: Narrative experience and effects (University of Leuven, Belgium; with Jan Van den Bulck)

Workshop: Exploring media narratives: New concepts and methods (University of Erfurt)

Conference: Media use and selectivity - New approaches to explaining and analysing audiences (University of Erfurt; with Friedrich Krotz and Patrick Rössler)