Viera Pirker

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University Vienna
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Viera Pirker is a catholic theologian living in Austria and Germany. She works as Post-Doc University Assistant at Vienna University, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Department for Practical Theology - Religious Education and Catechetics. Before that she was responsible for a teachers' education program in Wiesbaden/Germany (2013-2016) and University Assistant in Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt - School of Philosophy and Theology (2004-2013). She is member of the extended research team in the platform "youth media life" at Vienna University ( https://youthmedialife.univie.ac.at/ ). Her special research interest is visual communication on religious topics in Social Media, especially Catholizism on Instagram, as well as constructions of identity, religiosity and religious practise within social media communication and film. She received her theological doctorate 2013 with a monography on "fluide und fragil - Identität als Grundoption zeitsensibler Pastoralpsychologie" ("fluid and fragile - identity as foundation for contemporary pastoral psychology").
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