Assoz. Prof. Dr. Claudia Wilhelm, M.A.
Associate Professor of Media & Intersectionality
Main Research Areas
- Digital communication and gender
- Media use effects
- Youth media research
Claudia Wilhelm is Associate Professor of Media and Intersectionality at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) on the influence of gender roles on use and behavior in digital games. Further stations in her academic career were the Universities of Tübingen and Erfurt (Germany) as well as a guest stay at the University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Her research received third-party funding from the EU and the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and has been published in a wide range of international journals, such as Information, Communication & Society, New Media & Society, Journalism, Communication Research, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Behaviour & Information Technology, Social Science Computer Review, Public Understanding of Science, Psychology of Popular Media, Feminist Media Studies and Sex Roles.
Office Hours: Based upon prior agreement (via eMail)
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Publications
2025
Mayen, S., Reinhardt, A., & Wilhelm, C. (2025). Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents. Journal of Children and Media, 19(3), 598-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2443662
Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2025). The journalism-audience relationship in the digital age: A theoretical literature review. Journalism, 26(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231221611, https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231221611
2024
Reinhardt, A., Mayen, S. M., & Wilhelm, C. (2024). Uncovering the missing pieces: Predictors of nonresponse in a mobile experience sampling study on media effects among youth. Social Science Computer Review, 42(6), 1464-1478. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241235182
Wilhelm, C., & Detel, H. (2024). Great expectations? A taxonomy for expectancy research in journalism studies. Journalism, 25(10), 2171-2190. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231204150
Masullo, G. M., Wilhelm, C., Lee, T., Gonçalves, J., Riedl, M. J., & Stroud, N. J. (2024). Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States. New Media and Society, 26(9), 5379-5402. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221135860
Mayen, S. M., Reinhardt, A., & Wilhelm, C. (2024). Instruments for Measuring Youth Digital Media Use: A Comparison of App- and Web-based Mobile Experience Sampling Tools. MedienPädagogik. Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, (60), 93-119. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/60/2024.04.25.X
Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2024). Die Journalismus-Publikum-Beziehung als Herausforderung für den politischen Journalismus. Eine Literaturanalyse zu Verständnis und Modellierungen. In C. Nuernbergk, J. Haßler, J. Schützeneder, & N. F. Schuhmacher (Eds.), Politischer Journalismus: Konstellationen – Muster – Dynamiken (pp. 147-162). Nomos Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748939702-147, https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748939702-147
Wilhelm, C., & Schulz-Tomančok, A. (2024). Predicting user engagement with anti-gender, homophobic and sexist social media posts–a choice-based conjoint study in Hungary and Germany. Information Communication and Society, 27(11), 2094-2113. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2275012
Wilhelm, C. (2024). Stine Eckert, Ingrid Bachmann (Eds.): Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship. Theory, method, impact. rezensionen:kommunikation:medien.
2023
Guenther, L., Wilhelm, C., Oschatz, C., & Brück, J. (2023). Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content. Public Understanding of Science, 32(7), 860-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231166552