Short Biography

Alexander Stäudelmayr holds a Master's degree in Socioeconomics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business and conducted research at the Department of Economics there on the media coverage of redistribution policies in German-language media. His research interests include economic discourses, media economics, distributional conflicts and socio-ecological transformation. Since October 2024, Alexander is part of the research group “Socio Ecological Transformation” (SET), where he focuses on the role of economic knowledge in the context of socio-ecological transformation processes.

Research interests
Alexander conducted research at the Department of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) on media coverage of redistributive policies in German-speaking media. His research interests include political-economic discourses, media economics, distributional conflicts and the societal handling of socio-ecological transformation challenges. In his empirical work, Alexander primarily uses qualitative and mixed-methods approaches. These include, for example, expert and focus group interviews, discourse analyses, topic modelling and hermeneutic text analysis.

• Socio-ecological transformation, mixed-methodes, critical discourse analysis0, media economics, Topic Modelling, political ecnomoy