People
Ohio State
School of Communication
3016 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1339
Phone: (614) 292-3400
Fax: (614) 292-2055
Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Associate Professor

Contact Information
School of Communication
The Ohio State University
3036 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: (614) 247-6801
Fax: (614) 292-2055
knobloch-westerwick.1@osu.edu

Qualifications
M.A. University of Music & Drama Hanover, Germany
Ph.D. University of Music & Drama Hanover, Germany

Profile
My research and teaching is all about media use and media effects. The courses that I currently teach have to do with entertainment, new communication technologies, and children & media. In my research, I employ psychological methods and theories and also do cross-cultural investigations. I enjoy collaborating with students and almost always have student co-authors. Most of my recent work has focused on how people select from media entertainment and news.

My research has looked at how dramatic photos influence news reading and what renders news reports personally relevant to readers and I have studied how people select popular music and what makes people enjoy crime stories, just to name some research topics.