Prof. Dr. Konrad Scherfer
Dr. phil.
Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies
Institute of Information Science
Campus Südstadt
Claudiusstraße 1
50678 Köln
Room 381
Mailing address
+49 221-8275-3395
konrad.scherfer@th-koeln.de
Positions
- Assessor in accreditation and re-accreditation procedures (ongoing); assessor in appeals procedures (ongoing)
- Member of the Examination Board for the Market and Media Research and Online Editing degree programmes
- Placement coordinator for the Online Editing degree programme
Teaching disciplines
- Media Studies / Web Studies / Web Usability
Publications
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Schnelle Informationshäppchen. Wie junge Menschen sich informierenhttps://medien.epd.de/article/3654
Konrad Scherfer, September 2025, Publisher: epd medien, Nr. 19, 19.09.2025, S. 8-10.
Quick snippets of information. How young people stay informed -
Das große Plus. Die Bedeutung von digitalen Routinen und User Experience für digitaljournalistische Angebote von Zeitungsverlagen.https://journalistik.online/ausgabe-2-2022/das-grosse-plus/
Eva Brands und Konrad Scherfer, Juli 2022, Publisher: Journalistik. Zeitschrift für Journalismusforschung, 2, 2022, 5. Jg., S. 146-163.
The importance of digital routines and user experience for newspaper publishers’ digital journalism offerings. -
Entwicklung einer digitalen Medien-App Ein interdisziplinäres Lehrkonzept dreier Fakultäten.https://www.nhhl-bibliothek.de/api-v1/article/!/action/getPdfOfArticle/articleID/2735/productID/10/filename/article-id-2735.pdf
Konrad Scherfer, Matthias Böhmer und Christian Zabel, 2019, Publisher: Neues Handbuch Hochschullehre, Band 92
Development of a digital media app: An interdisciplinary teaching programme involving three faculties. -
Methoden der Webwissenschafthttp://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/15584
2013, Publisher: Konrad Scherfer und Helmut Volpers. Münster: LIT
Methods in Web Science -
Webwissenschaft - Eine Einführunghttps://magazin.avinus.eu/2009/10/08/konrad-scherfer-hg-webwissenschaft/
2008, Publisher: Konrad Scherfer. Münster: LIT
Web Science – An Introduction -
Diese Veröffentlichungen stellen eine Auswahl meiner Publikationen dar.
These represent a selection of my publications.
Awards
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Cologne University of Applied Sciences Teaching Award 2018Cologne University of Applied Sciences Teaching Award 2018
In 2018, Prof. Dr Konrad Scherfer was awarded the Teaching Prize of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, together with his colleagues Prof. Dr Matthias Böhmer and Prof. Dr Christian Zabel. Their teaching concept, “Design and Development of a Digital Media App”, was entirely focused on interdisciplinary collaboration: students from the Bachelor’s degree programmes in Online Journalism, Computer Science and Business Administration worked together to design, evaluate and develop a functional prototype of an app.
Curriculum Vitae
| Konrad Scherfer has been a professor of media studies at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Cologne since 2003. Prior to that, he studied media studies at the University of Siegen and worked as an online editor at Südwestrundfunk in Stuttgart. |
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Other information
Konrad Scherfer has been a voluntary member of the Grimme Institute’s Advisory Board (Marl) since 2006.