Description: Professor of Web Science
Professor of Web Science
Since 2013 I have been Professor of Web Science at the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and CAU Kiel University. The joint affiliation enables research closely related to applied areas of Library and Information Science as well as basic research in Web Science. My research group is located at the Department for Computer Science (Business Information Systems) at Kiel University.
In my research I am mostly concerned with user-generated content produced in, user-driven processes carried out in social media environments, and how they can be leveraged for different purposes. For example I study how social media content affects scholarly communication and whether user-generated descriptions of web content are useful in library contexts. These topics are also covered in my lectures and courses at Kiel University.