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Professor Daniela Wawra

Professor Daniela Wawra

Professor Daniela Wawra holds the Chair of English Language and Culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. From 2018 to 2020 she was Vice President for Study, Teaching and Internationalisation at the University of Passau, from 2010 to 2021 she was Vice President of the German Association of University Professors (Bonn). Previously she held the Chair of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Graz (Austria). She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sunderland (UK), the University of Colorado, the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona and Brigham Young University (all United States).

Professor Daniela Wawra holds the Chair of English Language and Culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. From 2018 to 2020 she was Vice President for Study, Teaching and Internationalisation at the University of Passau, from 2010 to 2021 she was Vice President of the German Association of University Professors (Bonn). Previously she held the Chair of Applied English Linguistics at the University of Graz (Austria). She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Sunderland (UK), the University of Colorado, the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona and Brigham Young University (all United States).

'One of my research interests is public relations discourses. This includes the question how institutions construct digital communication spaces for the purposes of public relations. My particular interest here is to what extent linguistic and cultural practices of impression management are delineated, transformed and expanded. In this context, the question of universals and cultural idiosyncrasies of digital communication is raised.

What drives me is the current importance of this area of research and the opportunity to work across faculties with a highly motivated and dedicated team. Due to the different perspectives from which this area is tackled, we can look forward to exciting debates, new methodological approaches and innovative results.’

Related research

Professor Wawra was engaged in the DFG-funded Research Training Group 1681/2 ‘Privacy and Digitalization’, where she worked on the intersection of social media, digital communication and privacy.

More on Professor Wawra’s research and a list of her publications.

Research stories

Illustration aus dem Erklärvideo zum interdisziplinären bidt-Projekt „Vektoren der Datenpreisgabe“ - Illustration: Isabel Groll

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The digital world asks us this question several times a day: should we share our data? A video explaining the interdisciplinary bidt project "Vectors of data disclosure", which examines the general legal and cultural conditions of that moment.

"Anyone who talks people into a language inferiority complex is obstructing democracy"

PICAIS fellow Professor Ingrid Piller researches language and diversity. A conversation about communicating without a common language, her origins in the Bavarian Forest region and her adopted home in Australia.

The conference room at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

World “Vectoring” Individuals Towards Disclosing Personal Data?

The conference “Vectors of Data Disclosure” at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities underlined the necessity of an interdisciplinary analysis of the personal disclosure decision – and gave the project team much food for thought.

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Legal and cultural aspects of data disclosure

At the bidt conference "Vectors of data disclosure" #VoD22 in Munich, the interdisciplinary project team presented and debated their initial findings. In this article, researchers give insights into their work.

Wikipedia – Kulturelle Muster in kollaborativer Autorschaft

Wikipedia – Cultural patterns in collaborative authorship

In 'Wikipedia – Cultural patterns in collaborative authorship', two subprojects examine the collaborative online encyclopaedia Wikipedia in its capacity as a realm for the negotiation of cultural patterns: print-based conventions of an…

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PACE - Passau Centre for eHumanities

The Passau Centre for eHumanities (PACE) investigates new computer-based approaches to determine the needs of the humanities and cultural studies fields for research and teaching.

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