First, at 13:00 Markus Hoffman will defend his thesis on "living with hensachi: students' perspectives of rankings and the meaning of universities in Japan."

Chair: Dr. Erik Aarden
1st examiner: Dr. Maximilian Fochler
2nd examiner: Dr. Ulrike Felt

Second, at 14:30 Valentina Dopona will defend her thesis on "Facebook: an (un)contested boundary infrastructure: Tracing discursive construction of Facebook in political communication research."

Chair: Dr. Erik Aarden
1st examiner: Dr. Ulrike Felt
2nd examiner: Dr. Maximilian Fochler

Lastly, at 16:00 Katarzyna Ratasiewicz will defend her thesis on "vinyl is not what it used to be: users, expectations and identities of gentrified technology."

Chair: Dr. Ingrid Metzler
1st examiner: Dr. Erik Aarden
2nd examiner: Dr. Maximilian Fochler