About

Jens Seiffert-Brockmann is Professor of Business Communication at the Department of Foreign Language Business Communication at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Between 2015 and 2020, he was a post-doctoral researcher with the Corporate Communication Research Group, Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. He received his doctorate in communication science in 2014 from the University of Leipzig, where he also graduated in communication science and political science. Jens has spent several periods abroad, including a semester at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, United States and as a guest researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

He is currently the chair of the Public Relations and Organizational Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Co-Editor of the Medien Journal, the Austrian Journal for Media and Communication Research, and he is member of the board of the Austrian Communication Association (ÖGK). As head of the Institute for Communication Management and Media, he is also responsible for the new master’s program in Business Communication at the WU.

Research Interests

Jens Seiffert-Brockmann’s research is focused on three areas of interest. First, he is concerned with trust in organizational communication and public trust in society. Second, he researches the impact of digital communication on business, especially with regard to content management, gamification and internet memes. Finally yet importantly, strategic communication with a focus on evolutionary psychology is the third area of interest. He has published numerous articles and chapters on these issues, as well as further papers on other branches of the academic field of Public Relations and Strategic Communication. Jens Seiffert-Brockmann is reviewer for the respective international academic journals in the field.

Key Publications

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