Mag. Vera Schwarz

Mag. Vera Schwarz

Porzellangasse 4
1090 Wien
Room: 1OG28

T: +43-1-4277-60057
vera.schwarz@univie.ac.at

Research focus

  • Digitality, education and society

  • Classism and racism, class and race
  • Diversity, intersectionality
  • (Queer) Feminist theory and practice
  • Austrian politics and contemporary history 

 

 

Activities

 

Scientific profile

I am a political scientist, adult educator and PhD student at the University of Vienna. As a researcher I am guided by an intersectional perspective, especially on class, race and gender. Playful approaches link my scientific and pedagogical work. 

I graduated in Political Science and Jewish Studies in 2008 and have worked with Fares Kayali since 2011, in the research projects "Serious Beats" and "Sparkling Games". As a seminar facilitator with a focus on group processes and writing, I conduct, i.a., training seminars for STEOP mentors at the University of Vienna and tutors for first-semester students throughout Austria, as well as seminars on writing and language.

Publications

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Götzenbrucker G, Schwarz V, Kayali F. Youth and Interculturality in Vienna: Gaming Intervention in Intercultural Contexts – Two Project Cases. In Knapp G, Krall H, editors, Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Developments, Analyses and Perspectives. Springer-Verlag Berlin-Heidelberg. 2021. p. 207-224
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Luckner N, Hödl O. Play it again - Digitale Musikinstrumente im MINT-Unterricht. Journal für LehrerInnenbildung. 2020;20(1/2020):54-66. 04. doi: https://doi.org/10.35468/jlb-01-2020_04
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Schwarz P. Von Computational Thinking zu Computational Empowerment – digitale Bildung und Kreativität. In Fritz J, Tomaschek N, editors, Impulse für einen Digitalen Humanismus : Menschliche Werte in der virtuellen Welt. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 2020. p. 159-168. (University - Society - Industry: Beiträge zum lebensbegleitenden Lernen und Wissenstransfer, Vol. 9).
Schwarz V, Götzenbrucker G, Kayali F, Grill C, Purgathofer P. Voxel generation: Raising awareness for informatics and society among high-school pupils through a game-design project. SCM – Studies in Communication and Media. 2020;9(1):89-124. doi: 10.5771/2192-4007-2020-1-89
Steinböck M (Editorial Journalist), Kayali F (Contributor), Schwarz V (Editorial Journalist). COLOGON (distributed mobile game for inclusive education) 2019.
Schwarz V, Kayali F, Schwarz P. Kulturelle Bildung und die digitale Revolution – Empowerment durch Kreativität. Schulheft. 2019.
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Purgathofer P, Götzenbrucker G. Using Game Design to Teach Informatics and Society Topics in Secondary Schools. Multimodal Technologies Interaction. 2018;2(4):77. doi: 10.3390/mti2040077
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Götzenbrucker G, Purgathofer P. Sparkling Games: Die Gestaltung von Lernspielen zu Themen aus Informatik und Gesellschaft. In Zielinski W, Aßmann S, Kaspar K, Moormann P, editors, Spielend lernen!: Computerspiele(n) in Schule und Unterricht . Düsseldorf, München: Kopaed Verlag. 2017. p. 159-170. (Schriftenreihe zur digitalen Gesellschaft NRW, Vol. 5).
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Götzenbrucker G, Purgathofer P. Learning, Gaming, Designing: Using Playful Participation to Create Learning Games together with High School Students. Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation. 2016;3(1). doi: 10.7146/tjcp.v3i1.23645
Schwarz V, Götzenbrucker G, Kayali F. Du bist dran! Spielerisch die Welt verändern? Eine qualitative Längsschnittstudie und Spielintervention zum Thema Klassismus und Rassismus unter Wiener Jugendlichen mit ArbeiterInneneltern. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung. 2015 Dec 15;(4-2015):445-459.
Kayali F, Schwarz V, Götzenbrucker G, Purgathofer P. Design Principles for Social Impact Games. eLearning Papers. 2015 Jul;(43):68-79.
Franz B, Kayali F, Götzenbrucker G, Schwarz V, Pfeffer J, Purgathofer P. Internet Games: Games for Change? In Immigrant Youth, Hip Hop, and Online Games: Alternative Approaches to the Inclusion of Working-Class and Second Generation Migrant Teens. London: Lexington Books. 2015. p. 63-86
Götzenbrucker G, Schwarz V, Purgathofer P, Kayali F, Pfeffer J, Franz B. Serious Beats: Internetnutzung und Freundschaftsstrukturen von jungen MigrantInnen in Wien: Eine Analyse der integrationsstiftenden Potenziale von sozialen Netzwerken und Online-Spielen. In Biffl G, Rössl L, editors, Migration & Integration 4 . Wien: Guthmann Peterson. 2014. p. 59-64. (Dialogforum Integration. Migration & Integration : Dialog zwischen Politik, Wissenschaft und Praxis).
Götzenbrucker G, Schwarz V, Kayali F. Serious beats: Transdisciplinary research methodologies for designing and evaluating a socially integrative serious music-based online game. Unknown publisher. 2011.
Schwarz V. Meine roten Großmütter: Politische Aktivität aus der KPÖ ausgetretener/ausgeschlossener Frauen. Peter Lang, 2010. 153 p.
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