Prof. Dr. Christian Möller

Professor Campus Berlin

B.A. Journalismus und Unternehmenskommunikation

M.A. Public Relations and Digital Marketing

Background

Prof. Dr. Christian Möller holds a doctorate in media science and has been Professor of Corporate Communications at Media University in Berlin since October 2019. He teaches mainly in the international Master’s program Public Relations & Digital Marketing.

After studying Media and Literature Studies, German Studies and Public Law at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Möller was a project manager in the Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, where he was primarily responsible for policy development in the area of online media freedom and internet governance and conducted numerous projects and conferences in the 57 OSCE participating states. He is one of the founding members of the Dynamic Coalition on Media Freedom Online at the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2007 in Rio de Janeiro.

From 2008-2010 Möller was press spokesman for the U.S. Consulate General in Hamburg, and from 2010-2015 program manager at the Hamburg Foundation for Business Ethics. Since 2001 he has been a lecturer at the Media Department of the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, where he also heads the Institute for Applied Journalism (ifap). Since 2017, Möller has been a member of the Commission for the Determination of Financial Requirements of Public Broadcasting Corporations (KEF), and since 2012 he has been an honorary examiner at the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen (FSF).

Teaching

  • Applied Strategic Communication
  • Public Relations Theories & Models
  • PR Lab
  • Methodology

Research and Teaching Focus

  • Public Relations & Corporate Communication
  • Social Media
  • Internet Governance

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education

    2019

    Dr. phil. in media sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel

    Fall Semester 2014

    Visiting Scholar, Annenberg School of Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia/USA

    06/2012

    Dart Academic Fellow for Journalism & Trauma, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York/USA

    2000-2001

    Certificate ‚Cultural Management‘ (CAU Kiel)

    1996-2003

    M.A. (Magister Artium) Media and literature studies, German studies, public law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

  • Work Experience

    Since October 2019

    Professor for Corporate Communications at Media University Berlin

    Since 2017

    Member of the Commission for the Determination of the Financial Requirements of Public Broadcasting Corporations (KEF)

    since 2011

    Lecturer at Fachhochschule Kiel

    2010-2015

    Program Manager at the Hamburg Foundation for Business Ethics

    2008-2010

    Spokesman of the US Consulate General in Hamburg

    2003-2008

    Project Manager in the Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna

    1999-2000

    Independent State Office for Broadcasting (ULR), Kiel

    1997-1998

    Nordostseeradio RADIO NORA, Kiel

Publications

Möller, Christian (2019) Kommunikationsfreiheit im Internet. Das UN Internet Governance Forum und die Meinungsfreiheit. Springer VS: Wiesbaden.

Möller, Christian (2013): New Technology, Minorities and Internet Governance. In: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE) (Vol. 12, No. 4), S. 16–33. Online verfügbar unter http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2013/Moeller.pdf.

Möller, Christian (2013): Saluting Professional Journalism. Germany’s Media Coverage of the Anders Breivik Trial. In: Journal of Mass Media Ethics (Vol. 28 Issue 1). Online verfügbar unter http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EDdCSs8GMjbWTUe8aAmV/full.

Möller, Christian; Stone, Michael (Hg.) (2013): 2013 Social Media Guidebook. Vienna: OSCE The Representative on Freedom.

Möller, Christian (2008): Internet Governance in the OSCE Region: Media Freedom, Human Security and the Multi-Stakeholder Approach. In: Wolfgang Benedek, Veronika Bauer und Matthias C. Kettemann (Hg.): Internet governance and the information society. Global perspectives and European dimensions. Utrecht: Eleven International Pub, S. 95–106.

Möller, Christian; Amouroux, Arnaud (Hg.) (2007): Governing the Internet. Freedom and regulation in the OSCE region. Vienna: The Representative on Freedom of the Media Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Möller, Christian; Popescu, Alexandra (2005): Transformation of the Journalism System: The Implementation of Media Independence in Eastern European Countries since 1989. In: Freimut Duve und Michael Haller (Hg.): Editorial Independence. Putting Principle into Practice. Wien: OSCE The Representative on Freedom.

Duve, Freimut; Möller, Christian (2005): Medienfreiheit als sicherheitspolitische Voraussetzung. Die OSZE im Spannungsfeld zwischen sicherheitspolitischer Stabilität und menschenrechtlicher Veränderung. In: Sicherheit und Frieden 23 (2), S. 73–78. Online verfügbar unter http://www.sicherheit-und-frieden.nomos.de/fileadmin/suf/doc/SuF_05_02.pdf.

Möller, Christian; Amouroux, Arnaud (Hg.) (2004): The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Wien: OSCE The Representative on Freedom. Online verfügbar unter http://www.osce.org/fom/13836?download=true.

Dohnanyi, Johannes von; Möller, Christian (2003): The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional Journalism. Vienna: OSCE The Representative on Freedom. Online verfügbar unter http://www.osce.org/fom/13870?download=true.

Hardy, Christiane; Möller, Christian (Hg.) (2003): Spreading the Word on the Internet. 16 Answers to 4 Questions. Reflections on Freedom of the Media and the Internet Amsterdam Conference, June 2003. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. Vienna: OSCE The Representative on Freedom. Online verfügbar unter http://www.osce.org/fom/13871?download=true.