Short biography

Hendrik Theine is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Linz Institute for Transformative Change and the Institute for the Global Analysis of the Economy. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Media, Inequality & Change Centre (MIC) at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a research associate (pre-doc and post-doc) at the Institute for Heterodox Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Hendrik is a member of the organisation team of the Network for Critical Communication Science and co-editor of the book Klimasoziale Politik. Further details at: hendriktheine.eu, opens an external URL in a new window

Main research interests

Hendrik's research focuses on two thematic areas: (1) media discourses on the climate crisis, economic inequality and transformation and (2) ownership, concentration and power dynamics in media markets and digital capitalism. He uses concepts and methods from media and communication studies, discourse research, political economy and ecological economics.

• Critical Political Economy, Media Economics, socio-ecological transformation, climate crisis, economic inequality, critical discourse analyses, topic modelling

Teaching experience

Hendrik has taught numerous courses at Bachelor and Master level - for example: Economic Policy, Political Economy of Inequality and Media Economics.He has also supervised several theses. Hendrik's teaching philosophy is based on giving students space to develop their own ideas, interests and passions. He is convinced that creative, non-discriminatory and constructive learning spaces are necessary so that students can critically reflect on and rethink current social, ecological, economic, political and communicative processes - and learn to actively change them.

• Economic policy, media economics, political economy of inequality