Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2020
  University Professor for Online Communicationat the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig
• 10/2014 - 09/2020
  Junior Professor for Online Communication (with tenure track) at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig
• 10/2010 - 09/2014
  Research Associate at the Chair of Computer-Mediated Communication (Prof. Dr. Thomas Knieper) at the University of Passau
• 04/2009 - 09/2010
  Research Associate at the Chair of Communication Science (Prof. Dr. Ralf Hohlfeld) at the University of Passau

Education

• 04/2009 - 01/2014
  Doctoral student with Prof. Dr. Ralf Hohlfeld at the University of Passau
• 04/2003 - 02/2008
  Degree in Journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Major subject: Journalism, minor subjects: cultural and economic geography, political science, sociology and Philosophy

• Media change, digital transformation and institutionalization of new media
• Cross-media, digital and mobile strategies of organizations
• Multimedia forms of presentation, cross- and transmedia storytelling for corporate media and in journalism
• Strategic communication management for non-profit organizations and start-ups
• Science, innovation and acceptance communication

• EASyQuart-Plus: Energy-efficient design and planning of decentralized supply networks for heating and cooling of urban districts using the shallow geological space - digitization and practical effectiveness

  Wolf, Cornelia

  Duration: 12/2023 – 12/2026

  Funded by: BMWK Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Online Kommunikation
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• Prospects of Estonian and German local independent media in the era of global platformisation, disinformation campaigns and political populism

  Wolf, Cornelia

  Duration: 07/2020 – 12/2020

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Online Kommunikation
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• Social Intranet fields of application in the non-profit sector

  Wolf, Cornelia

  Duration: 10/2019 – 10/2020

  Funded by: Vereine/Gesellschaft

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Online Kommunikation; Strategische Kommunikation
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• Start-up Communication Compass

  Wolf, Cornelia

  Duration: 09/2023 – 09/2024

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Online Kommunikation
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more projects

• Wolf, C.; Godulla, A.

  Journalismus und Unternehmenskommunikation: Strukturen und Wandel der Zusammenarbeit

  In: Zerfaß, A.; Röttger, U.; Piwinger, M. (Eds.)

  Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation. Strategie – Management – Wertschöpfung. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler. 2022. pp. 311–328.

  ISBN: 978-3-658-22932-0
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• Wolf, C.; Godulla, A.

  Darstellungsformen im erzählenden Onlinejournalismus

  In: Meier, K.; Neuberger, C. (Eds.)

  Journalismusforschung. Stand und Perspektiven. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 2023. pp. –161.

  ISBN: 978-3-8487-8472-1
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• Wolf, C.; Bendahan Bitton, D.; Ziegele, D. A.

  Learning from research on founder centricity in start-ups: A framework for intra-and entrepreneurship in journalism

  In: Godulla, A.; Böhm, S. (Eds.)

  Digital Disruption and Media Transformation: How Technological Innovation Shapes the Future of Communication. Springer. 2023. pp. 243–255.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39940-4_19
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• Wolf, C.; Planer, R.; Godulla, A.

  The ecosystem of editorial product innovation: A systematic literature analysis on internal factors and external actors in journalistic media organisations

  Studies in Communication and Media. 2024. 13 (3). pp. 317–346.

  DOI: doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-3-317
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• Wolf, C.; Bendahan Bitton, D.; Freudl, V. G.; Buchmann, K.

  Geothermie in den Medien

  Universität Leipzig. Leipzig. 2024.
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more publications

• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Preis für herausragende Lehre des Instituts für Kommunikations- und Medi-enwissenschaft

  Wolf, Cornelia (Online Kommunikation)

  awarded in 2023 by Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft.
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• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Preis für Gute Lehre

  Wolf, Cornelia (Online Kommunikation)

  awarded in 2013 by Universität Passau.
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• Publikationspreis: Top Student Paper Award

  Wolf, Cornelia (Online Kommunikation)

  awarded in 2013 by Mass Communication Division der International Communication Association (ICA).
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• Publikationspreis: Bester Tagungsbeitrag einer Nachwuchswissenschaftlerin/eines Nach-wuchswissenschaftlers

  Wolf, Cornelia (Online Kommunikation)

  awarded in 2013 by Fachgruppe PR/Organisationskommunikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) .
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• Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Preis für herausragende Lehre des Instituts für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft

  Wolf, Cornelia (Online Kommunikation)

  awarded in 2024 by Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft .
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more awards

MA Communication Management:

• Module responsibility for the modules "Digitalization, Technological Innovations and Content" (V Digital Transformation and Communication Trends), "Nonprofit Organizations and Communication" (S Nonprofit Communication), "Research Module I: Strategic Communication" (Project Seminar: Research and Transfer Project Strategic Communication), Research Module II: Communication Management) and Research Module III: Corporate Communication" 

MSc Journalism:

• Module responsibility for the modules "Narrativity in Journalism" (S Storytelling, Ü Visual Storytelling) and "Nonprofit Organizations and Communication" (S Nonprofit Communication)

BA Communication and Media Studies:

• Module responsibility for the modules "Theories and Research Concepts of Communication Management, Research Project I" and "Implementation and Evaluation of a Research Project on Communication Management in, Research Project II" (there: S Start-up Communication)

• Multi-media scrollytelling projects in M.Sc. journalism

  Module Narrativity in journalism

  2023 Megatrend mobility: https://mscjournalismus.shorthandstories.com/megatrend-mobilitaet/index.html

  2021 Megatrend knowledge culture: https://mscjournalismus.shorthandstories.com/megatrend-wissenskultur/index.html

  2020 Megatrend urbanization: https://mscjournalismus.shorthandstories.com/megatrend-urbanisierung/index.html

  2019: The fascination of space: https://mscjournalismus.shorthandstories.com/faszination-weltraum/index.html

• Research and transfer projects in the M.A. Communication Management

  Management of application-oriented empirical projects in cooperation with organizations

  • General Atlantic, Sunfire, Staffbase: Start-up Communication Compass
  • Stiftung Warentest: Digital communication strategy in foundation communication
  • Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe: Digital mental health communication for adolescents and young adults
  • MDR: Communication concept for conveying the (social) performance of MDR to young population groups